Monthly Archives for 2008 09
Use the working copy to restore a subversion repo.
2008 Sept 30 at 13:51 » Tagged as: collaboration
The other day I suffered a hard drive failure and lost my subversion repository. As a result the wor...
Send Them to Microsoft
2008 Sept 29 at 13:28 » Tagged as: x11
Who ever came up with this menu system for KDE should be sent to work at Microsoft. Sure it can be t...
Fedora 9 DOMDocument.
2008 Sept 27 at 00:32 » Tagged as: xml
Since moving to Debian and back again to Fedora , didn't have an occaision to meddle with the DOMDoc...
Recover Corrupt SD Card.
2008 Sept 25 at 22:52 » Tagged as: xml , photography
A couple of weeks ago, I had a corrupt CF card and managed to recover most of the data thanks to the...
Photo Blog Updated to WP 2.6
Soon after moving this blog from Movable Type to Wordpress, I decided to update by photo blog also t...
Howto Launch Qmail on Fedora 9
Fedora 9 now ships with upstart a poorly documented replacement for init. Upstart completely ignores...
Bye Bye Movable Type.
I set off to upgrade <a href="http://movabletype.org">Movable Type</a> and ended up migrating to wor...
Movable Type Upgrade.
This blog is powered by movable type. Has always been. I have experimented with a few other bloggers...
Lanka Bell Wimax
I rarely have anything good to say about Sri Lankan ISPs. This time I do. My Lanka Bell broadband co...
Hard Drive Failure.
On monday, returned home to find my computer wasn't responding, straight away I reckoned that someth...
Qmail on Fedora 9.
Qmail is said to be the second most popular MTA on the net and life with qmail / netqmail is the mos...
Fedora Slow DNS Lookups
Now that kinks have been ironed out of my broadband connection, I am beginning to notice that DNS lo...
FireFox 3 Offline Mode
Firefox 3 on Fedora 9 has the annoying habit of starting in offline mode. You ought to be able to ma...
Bell Speed Issue Fixed.
Earlier, I reported that Lanka Bell had crawled to a halt. Well, they fixed it. In fact they fixed i...
Qmail Mail Stuck in the Queue
The other day, staff at a company that I occaisionaly act as a consult for, were complaining about n...
Corrupt CF card
2008 Sept 4 at 07:18 » Tagged as: video , photography
Last december, I lost some important images thanks to the Compact Flash card on my Nikon D70S becomi...
Fredora 9 - Any regrets?
When I moved from Fedora to Debian it wasn't long before I started regretting that decision. Now I a...
Dialog Broadband - The Court Jester.
Dialog Telekom, once the #1 teleco in the country has been reduced to a sad state, they are now occu...