A while back a friend and colleague of mine introduced me to the server monitoring tool called munin which he had installed on one of the servers he maintains. It looked interesting enough for me to stick it on my “to do” list for my VPSs. Having a bunch of relevant stats presented in graphical …
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webcam on the slug
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the latest from El Reg
- 'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8 2012/05/21
- Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims 2012/05/21
- ALL NHS patient records online by 2015 2012/05/21
- IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn 2012/05/21
- NVIDIA VGX VDI: New tech? Or rehashed hash? 2012/05/21
- Audi proposes PC-packing stunt bikes 2012/05/21
- Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears 2012/05/21
- Does private cloud follow virtualisation? 2012/05/21
- IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke 2012/05/21
- Nasdaq red-faced after software snafu stalls Facebook IPO 2012/05/21
- Core Wars: Inside Intel's power struggle with NVIDIA 2012/05/21
- Ouch! Facebook falls below IPO value in pre-trading on Nasdaq 2012/05/21
- What's copying your music really worth to you? 2012/05/21
- Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google 2012/05/21
- Resistance is futile? Memristor RAM now cheap as chips 2012/05/21
- Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts 2012/05/21
Category Archive: tips, tricks and howtos
Oct 18 2009
logrotate weirdness in debian etch
I have two VPSs, both running debian. One runs lenny, the other runs etch. The older etch install runs fine, and is much as the supplier delivered it. Until now I have not had cause to consider the need to upgrade the etch install to lenny because it “just worked”. But today I noticed for …
Oct 03 2009
debian on a DNS-313
I bought another new toy last week – a D-Link DNS 313 NAS. Actually, this was a mistake because what I really wanted was the DNS-323. I just wasn’t careful enough at the time. Quite apart from having space for two 3.5″ SATA hard drives instead of just one, the 323 is a very different …
Sep 12 2009
wordpress on lighttpd
I have commented in the past how I prefer lighttpd to apache, particularly on low powered machines such as the slug. I used to be a big apache fan, in fact I think I first used it at version 1.3.0 or maybe 1.3.1, having migrated from NCSA 1.5.1 (and before that Cern 3.0) back in …
Jul 05 2009
aspire one bios updates
This post is partly for my own benefit. It records some of the most useful references to bios updates for the AAO. My own AAO is actually running a fairly early bios (3114) and deliberately so. I upgraded to 3309 in (yet another futile) attempt to get sony memory sticks to work but found that …
Jul 05 2009
tor on a vps
I value my privacy – and I dislike the increasing tendency of every commercial website under the sun to attempt to track and/or profile me. Yes, I know all the arguments in favour of advertising, and well targeted advertising at that, but I get tired of the Amazon style approach which assumes that just because …
May 12 2009
jaunty netbook remix DVD iso
My daughter saw my netbook the other day and decided that she wanted UNR on her Tosh laptop to replace the 8.04 hardy I had installed for her (no-one in my family is allowed a proprietary OS – this occasionally causes some friction). Anyway, the old Tosh she uses (which has seen various distros during …
Apr 12 2009
acer aspire one – a netbook experience
I mentioned in an earlier post that I had recently acquired an Acer Aspire One (AAO) netbook. I chose the AAO in preference to any other of the netbooks on the market for two reasons – firstly it looks a lot cooler than most of the competition (particularly in blue – see below), but secondly, …
Dec 27 2008
egroupware mail with dovecot and postfix
I have recently built an egroupware system to be used as a social networking site. The application suite itself is relatively easy to install and configure, but the webmail system it offers (a fork of squirrelmail called felamimail) is rather poorly documented. It took me some time to figure out how to authenticate mail users …
Sep 12 2008
webanalytics – just say no
I have just built myself a new intel core 2 duo based machine to replace one of my older machines which was beginning to struggle under the load of video transcoding I was placing upon it. The new machine is based on an E8400 and is nice and shiny and fast. Because it is a …
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