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Spammers ought to be shot

April 9th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Last night I had the idea that it would be nice to login to one of my servers (beastie.thefraggle.com) and grab a look at the squid configuration I wrote a while back to load balance my website, there was a slight problem with that, however; The server was inaccesible. I’ve now found out that thanks [...]

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shiny new toys

April 6th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Roll on payday, I say. I’ve been looking at what kit I fancy for my camera when I finally get paid at the end of the month. So far it’s boiled down to two important items: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM MKIII Tripod (I’m not yet sure what to get ) I really fancy a [...]

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cat can have some handy features too.

April 3rd, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Another nifty thing I figured out a while ago, whilst having to upload a script written by one of the guys we support, in a windows editor, was how to check quickley and easily with cat(1)whether it had silly windows CR/LF’s : cat -ev /path/to/file Would output something like the following if the file had [...]

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sfdisk is quite handy

April 3rd, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

So today I had to basically clone a hard disk from a failing disk, to a new disk Sun had sent for one of the v20z’s at work… Haven’t not had to mess about with partition tables and other such things outside of the installer in linux for some time (last time I did this [...]

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get(ting) lost

March 23rd, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Soooo I have until next month off work, what else can I do with myself other than go for random drives and walks. Today was a pretty nice day, so I decided to go to the Trough of Bowland, had a wander around and decided to head on and go for a bit of a [...]

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