The voluntary tech guy. Like Batman – but fighting downtime rather than crime.
I just had the enjoyment of performing an autopsy on our backup server, arguably the most important machine on the network, responsible for the retreival and archiving of the filesystems from all the other servers. As I opened the case it was immediately obvious what had happened, an intruder had broken in and hacked the […]
Continue ReadingHaving since bought my shiney new Wacom 2 tablet (which incidently works perfectly under XOrg, Ubuntu has it configured out of the box) I’ve started to wonder if there’s more use for it than just graphics editing. If you’ve never used a graphics tablet before, I encourage you to do so at some point. Once […]
Continue ReadingI’m blogging this in the hope that I might get more Google coverage for the solution to a problem I hit when trying to setup Ubuntu server on an older machine down the church. I originally posted the solution to the official Ubuntu forums, and it’s had a few replies saying it worked and was […]
Continue ReadingYesterday I had the laughs of all laughs. As anyone who knows me personally will know, I’ve recently been “trying out” Microsoft Windows Vista (yes, that you did read that correctly.) I’d rather be openminded than closed, primarily because I hate it when people tell me how rubbish non-Microsoft software is when they’ve never even […]
Continue ReadingAfter having had to take down hedwig a fair few hours over the last week (if you didn’t know, Debian has made a new stable release, and amazingly there’s no pigs flying!) while it under went some fairly heavy software updates. During this time Courier, the MTA we use was back logged with a fair […]
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