Category: Wayback Retrieval
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iPods. Now I understand the hoopla.
I’ve often wondered what the hoopla over the Apple iPod was about. Today I met an iPod. Stark, simple, tactile, functional. I’m not so sure on the menu interface yet, but beyond that it’s fairly brilliant. Simple smooth touches to the click-dial and things happen. It’s a tad sensitive for my massive fingers, but that’s…
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Adventures in the garden
One of the benefits of owning your own place is that you have control of your garden (if you have a garden). One of the drawbacks of … well, you can fill that in yourself 🙂 Yesterday, after getting in from a small tour of Devon (family gathering, 13 of us at a pub in…
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25% of disk used
At $work, we’ve been running very tight on disk space for a few months now. So tight that we’ve had to regularly drop data out of the tables and store it offline, in the hope that we can restore it later. Luckily it’s only mail transaction logs, but they’re still fairly important. I campaigned via…
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DSL go BOOM!
I had just been remarking to a friend the other day about how stable my Force9 ADSL connection is. Silly me forgot to do all the usual superstitious stuff like knocking on wood when I said that. Wednesday last week, my line died at 9:22 A.M. Didn’t think much of it, I’m used to the…
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Server upgrades are fun!
Last night I felt a bit bored, so I downloaded Kubuntu (Ubuntu Hoary + KDE). This morning, I archived my 50 GB /home area to my RAID, along with a few odds and sods like my postfix config, various MySQL databases (including wordpress), popped in a CD and booted off of the Kubuntu AMD64 installer…
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Fun with mod_rewrite
In an effort to make the software that I write for $dayjob a bit more pleasing on the eye URL-wise, I started converting my code to use what is commonly called SEF (Search Engine Friendly) URLs. Not that a search engine will ever hit the administrative interface mind you. I decided to use Apache’s mod_rewrite…