I have modified the tcpping script to output values much like fping’s -C mode used in smokeping. At the same time I’ve created a new smokeping probe which uses this new mode. Hence we will have a TCPPing Probe for smokeping, yay!
site-note: I wrote a WPing Probe (windows ping) ages ago too. [...]
Gareth dumped this link on me friday afternoon just I was leaving the office. It had been a hectic week, and the weekend wasn’t any quieter. I finally got around to reading the cluetrain manifesto this morning in my partially dazed state. It’s worth the read. I love the comment from [...]
This was the initial WordPress post. I renumbered it, and followed the instructions at Dr. Bacchus’ Journal which I found via Carthik’s Blog to import my old MT posts. (Note: You can’t just add ID anywhere, it must not be before the author line).
A quick poke with .htaccess make all my old url’s work, [...]
I will eventually be moving from Movable Type to WordPress. The reason is basically their new licencing scheme and that horrible thing called TypeKey. I already have the new server available, I’m just waiting for some spare time so I can install WP and migrate all my MT data to it.
It has been a while since I last posted. Besides taking a few weeks off over christmas, and now back at work, I’ve been playing with GB-PVR and xmltv.
GB-PVR doesn’t support non-mpeg2 capture cards, (in fact the list is limited to cards that support hardware compression). So I’m busy working on the GB-PVR [...]
-sigh- xmule is being difficult again. I’m busy with the upgrade of the rh9 box to fc2, but this is really an old problem.
xmule-1.8.2-1.0.rh9.dag is what’s currently installed and working
xmule-1.8.2-1.fc.i386 breaks on start up with a segfault.
xmule-1.8.2d-1.0.rh9.dag.i386 breaks on start up after trying to init newprefs0x.pm, with a segfault.
xmule-1.8.2-1.1.fc2.dag.i386 breaks on start [...]
during the upgrade of tight vnc i discovered that vnc session manager did not detect now-deleted, but running servers. A small patch fixes the bug
I was rather bummed that tight vnc’s server still depends on XFree86 (which is now replaced by xorg-x11 in fc2). So I got hold of the latest tightvnc server (1.3dev5-1.i386), changed the spec file, and rebuilt it for FC2 (1.3dev5-1.fc2.i386)
If you want it come and get it, if you don’t trust my build, go [...]
Wojciech Purczynski and Michal Zalewski have an awesome paper on floating data storage. What they mean by that is storage of your data on the internet, but not in a conventional manner. They mean storing it on the wire, and in mail queues.
On a similar note I have been thinking about a [...]
After finally just getting tooo much blog spam: I have finally got around to installing James Seng’s Turing Plugin. Hopefully this means I can drop a few of my iptables drop rules (I’m sure that most of the spam comments were posted via anonymous proxies, so fighting that is also impossible)
