Category: Wayback Retrieval
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The ongoing DSL saga
Well, the DSL saga continues. The call has been escalated by my ISP to BT, and BT have called me for details. This evening, I ran a fresh connection for the DSL modem from the back of the master socket. The downstream noise margin has gone from 5 to 10, and the ATM sync rate…
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From Netware to Microsoft
Years ago (heh), I worked for a .edu in the USA, same place I got my BS degree. At the time, my boss preferred Microsoft to the campus choice of Novell’s Netware. We had the odd stealth Linux server, and even an RS/6000 running AIX (as a web server no less), in the web/Internet department,…
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EVE and Xinerama
One problem with Xinerama and Cedega – the EVE window showed up right in the middle of the two screens. KDE’s force window positioning to the rescue!
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Moving the server around
Well, I woke up at 5 A.M. today – this tends to happen as the days get longer, I wake up when it gets light (so you can imagine what winter is like for me). Decided I was tired of the Dell server humming away in my room, and that it was time to move…
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Date::Parse and str2time
While working on the web-proxy component of $dayjob’s software, I ran into a silly glitch with Date::Parse’s str2time() function. str2time converts string formatted timestamps (Thu, 13 Oct 94 10:13:13 -0700 for example) into epoch seconds (the number of seconds since a certain point in time in 1970) – very useful when working with the Last-Modified…
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More bathroom upgrades
This weekend has been quite productive. Mum and Dad came up to give me a hand with doing the panelling in the bathroom. 16 panels, the capping trim and 3 tubes of silicon sealant came to about £200, and the associated wood, screws and N0-Nails was probably an additional £30. Saturday saw the removal of…