http://www.raditha.com/blog/ en-us e4c5@raditha.com 2008-07-23T04:34:05+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001439.html On saturday, i was playing at being a plumber. Not because I wanted to save a few bucks but my regular plumber was not available because his own house had been flooded. No his pipelines didn't explode. There was a... 1439@/blog/ 2008-07-23T04:34:05+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001434.html Fedora insists on not shipping Sun Java because it didn't fall into the open source definition of free. Something that can be downloaded free of charge isn't free. Even if the source code is shipped free of charge, that still... 1434@/blog/ 2008-07-18T06:07:53+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001433.html The webserver and the web browser aren't the only things that caused trouble. Alsa also played it's part. Sound on Fedora has always been one big headache. They kept making too many changes too often. We had to change from... 1433@/blog/ 2008-07-16T05:44:49+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001429.html It's been a couple of weeks since I switched to Debian after being a loyal Fedora/Redhat user for many, many years ago. It hasn't been smooth sailing all together. There were few teething problems here and their. First up I... 1429@/blog/ 2008-07-14T11:00:52+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001427.html Each of the bedrooms, the sitting room the TV lobby and of course my study are all wired with cat 6 cabling. There are 8 access points in all which includes the gate (for an IP camera, which I am... 1427@/blog/ 2008-07-11T09:59:31+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001425.html Having given up on Fedora it was time to decide what my new operating system will be. Initially I settled upon OpenSuse. All linux distributions are essentially the same except for the installer and the system administration apps. But if... 1425@/blog/ 2008-07-08T16:08:52+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001423.html Many years ago, Red Hat released version 6.2 of their Linux Distro. That was round about the time that I gradually started being a fulltime linux user. I had installed different flavours on my computer before but never really got... 1423@/blog/ 2008-07-07T08:22:34+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001422.html The Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 migration, which I blogged about in recent days was on what I like to call my media server. It's a core 2 duo machine that runs mythtv and also functions as a backup server.... 1422@/blog/ 2008-06-25T14:21:29+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001420.html I mentioned that there were hardly any noticable changes since moving from fedora 8 to fedora 9. That's probably because the upgrade process is messed up. Consider this: [fedora] name=Fedora 8 - x86_64 failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/x86_64/os/ mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY... 1420@/blog/ 2008-06-22T10:29:25+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001419.html Moving to a new house should be accompanied by an upgrade to the operating system. I am yet to upgrade from OS X Tiger to Leopard, but I didn't waste so much time in moving from Fedora 8 to 9.... 1419@/blog/ 2008-06-21T05:52:17+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001415.html Freshmeat stats seemed to be messed up all of a sudden. Usually they report the number of record and url hits on a daily basis. But yesterday, they seem to have reported all the past hits (that is the sum... 1415@/blog/ 2008-06-02T14:53:49+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001411.html Hard on the heels of Rad SFTP 2.02 comes Rad Upload 4.02. As with the Secure FTP applet we have signed the new version with the new code signing certificate. We are providing free upgrades to all those who have... 1411@/blog/ 2008-05-27T14:13:10+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001399.html It's been a while since a new release of the Rad SFTP applet was made. Yesterday we put that right by making version 2.02 available for download. There isn't a large difference between the old and the new version -... 1399@/blog/ 2008-05-23T00:34:02+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001397.html Whatever said and done, Dialog 3g (or rather 3.5g) is much faster than SLT ADSL even when the 3.5 connection is limited by the bottleneck at the bluetooth connection between the mobile and the computer. SLT ADSL is a pretty... 1397@/blog/ 2008-05-14T14:42:53+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001395.html Did a broadband speed test by connecting up by Nokia E51 with bluetooth to my macbook. The net connection is from Dialog Telekom. It's a tech dinosaur that boasts of a 3.5g network. Actually I was quite suprised by the... 1395@/blog/ 2008-05-12T17:04:17+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001391.html Our mail servers were being spammed and joe jobbed to death and I decided to apply the qmail SPF patch. It was configured to just insert the SPF header rather than rejecting mails. As it turned out, most of the... 1391@/blog/ 2008-05-10T02:04:34+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001384.html In the middle of the night there was a power failure and the Asterisk server I had configured was shut down. When it restarted the Nokia E51 wouldn't connect to it (it's set to automatic connect). I tried manual connect... 1384@/blog/ 2008-05-08T01:46:27+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001388.html When it comes to java code signing it seems we have to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea (Thawte and Verisign). Unfortunately they are two sides of the same coin. Thawte is owned by verisign. Their prices... 1388@/blog/ 2008-05-07T00:34:13+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001386.html The last time my desktop running Fedora Core 6 crashed was when I plugged in my old Nokia 6151 using the DKU 2 cable. That phone is now dead. I wondered what might happen if I plugged in my new... 1386@/blog/ 2008-05-06T00:49:43+00:00 http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/001383.html Asterisk plays an important part in my Quadruple play at home scenario. I had previously set it up so that zoiper softphone on my macbook could connect to it and talk to another macbook. I hadn't previously configured it with... 1383@/blog/ 2008-05-05T16:56:22+00:00