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

2008 Sept 25 at 04:32 » Tagged as: x11 , photography , wordpress
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

2008 Sept 24 at 04:20 » Tagged as: python , qmail
Fedora 9 now ships with upstart a poorly documented replacement for init. Upstart completely ignores...

Bye Bye Movable Type.

2008 Sept 23 at 00:05 » Tagged as: movabletype , web 0.8 , wordpress
I set off to upgrade <a href="http://movabletype.org">Movable Type</a> and ended up migrating to wor...

Movable Type Upgrade.

2008 Sept 22 at 02:19 » Tagged as: video , web 0.8
This blog is powered by movable type. Has always been. I have experimented with a few other bloggers...

Lanka Bell Wimax

2008 Sept 18 at 23:18 » Tagged as: xml , broadband
I rarely have anything good to say about Sri Lankan ISPs. This time I do. My Lanka Bell broadband co...

Hard Drive Failure.

2008 Sept 17 at 09:25 » Tagged as: video , subversion , toast
On monday, returned home to find my computer wasn't responding, straight away I reckoned that someth...

Qmail on Fedora 9.

2008 Sept 15 at 08:11 » Tagged as: python , qmail
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

2008 Sept 13 at 04:03 » Tagged as: video , web 0.8
Now that kinks have been ironed out of my broadband connection, I am beginning to notice that DNS lo...

FireFox 3 Offline Mode

2008 Sept 12 at 08:19 » Tagged as: video , web 0.8
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.

2008 Sept 9 at 19:48 » Tagged as: video , broadband
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

2008 Sept 6 at 07:18 » Tagged as: video , qmail
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?

2008 Sept 3 at 07:58 » Tagged as: video , religion
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.

2008 Sept 1 at 18:30 » Tagged as: video , broadband
Dialog Telekom, once the #1 teleco in the country has been reduced to a sad state, they are now occu...