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Moving things around here today. Upgrading operating systems and moving servers about the place and so on. So there will be some interruptions to the normal service. Tasks to get done are in no particular order: Move all my hosted sites to another server here. Setup new server to move sites to. Retire my elderly [...]

In keeping with the endless tinkering of my various sites, I’ve relocated my blog over to one of the two Sun Sparc Blades I got last week. So this is now being dished out to you via Solaris 10. Migrating was quite simple. Once I moved the database and my WordPress installation over I was [...]

The problems I was having with all comments automatically being flagged as spam has been fixed. (I hope!) I’m not exactly sure what happened but I shutdown my reverse proxy to reconfigure it and cleared it’s cache and all seems to be well again. Now for the neat stuff. Unfortunately most of you will never [...]

Then read what Microsoft’s Windows Boss thinks. It’s not good. Stephen Sinofsky who is the man in charge of developement of Windows has as much as admitted that it’s a piece of crap. Choice quotes are: The Vista Ready logo program required drivers available on 1/30. I think we had had reasonable coverage, but quality [...]

Another hard drive has gone to wherever it is that hard drives go when they die. This one however was in my firewall/router/outgoing proxy server. I noticed lots of disk thrashing going on and couldn’t connect through ssh. Once I hooked up a monitor there were loads of filesystem errors flashing past the console. I [...]

I’ve been debating this with myself for a while now and I’ve decided to forge ahead. When I originally started this blog almost two years ago I originally envisaged it as mainly technology and I.T. related. However as time marched on it has become more of a personal blog. And I thank you my dear [...]

Almost everyone knows that when computers are on a Local Area Network they need unique addresses. As well as unique addresses they need unique names too. In corporations this is usually something logical to them. For instance one company where I worked had a standard of naming their machines by function and location as indeed [...]

Pardon the pun in the title! I was having a few issues with DNS which a few people have notified me about. Kieran wrote about it on his blog and Eoin noticed problems too. Traffic was steadily flowing in so I wasn’t sure if the problem was with my DNS or not. Anyway it appears [...]