Monthly Archives: May 2007

Tonight…

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Chris

I am off to London, because Tomorrow… I am going to Google’s Developer Day. I am very excited about it, and look forward to meeting some of the people behind Google and getting to learn about some of their technology … Continue reading →

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Debian, Postfix and DKIM

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Chris

So how do I get Postfix to verify and sign messages with the DKIM system, under Debian? Here is how. First we need to install the dependencies. $ sudo aptitude install libdigest-sha{,1}-perl libemail-{address,mime-encodings}-perl libnet-{dns,server}-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl liberror-perl make libmailtools-perl $ sudo … Continue reading →

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Remote Munin Nodes

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Chris

My laptop and desktop are not always connected to the same network as my server and when this is the case its most likely I do not have control of the network or want the information passed over the internet … Continue reading →

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Photos: Gateshead-upon-Tyne to Lancaster

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Chris

I have uploaded the photos me and my friend took whilst driving the journey from Gateshead-upon-Tyne to Lancaster, via the Hartside Pass and the Lake District, quite a few desktop wallpaper photos in the bunch.

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Within Temptation – Memories Video (the Sims Style)

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Chris

How sad can you get, recreating a music video in the Sims? Watch on YouTube

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Network Manager and University of Exeter VPN

Posted on May 19, 2007 by Chris

So, at home currently rather than at university, this poses a problem when trying to connect to some resources, such as internal machines and private resources. I know Network Manager in Ubuntu has VPN support but I had never tried … Continue reading →

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Converting MySQL data to UTF-8

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Chris

I decided to convert my blog to use UTF-8 rather than Latin-1 as its character set, this turned out to be somewhat of a PITA. After changing all the table and database character sets manually I had to convert the … Continue reading →

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Getz

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Chris

WordPress 2.2 aka Getz has been released, once again I performed an upgrade using Subversion generated patches, which had one small problem. They changed the background images in the default style so I had to manually wget them from subversion. … Continue reading →

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House w/ Mummy

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Chris

You usually expect the owner of the house you have bought to have moved out, not in this case, she was mummified on the sofa. Read More

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Speed Testing Tool

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Chris

I came across this fabulous Internet speed testing tool called: Speedtest.net. Best I have seen, okay the flash use is a little over the top but it works well.

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