A few days ago my car insurance renewal quote came through from Ford Insure. I’d already done some online quotes to get an idea what I would be expecting to pay, so I was quite surprised to see the Ford quote come in at 50% more then the majority of the other quotes. Even when I queried this with them …
It seems I’ve never got enough time these days. I’m a FreeBSD ports committer, but recently I’ve hardly done anything. All I’ve managed to do is keep my own ports updated. It’s quite frustrating because I want to be more involved. Then there’s the other projects like libstatgrab, they don’t even get a look in. I blame the “day job”; …
On Thursday I arrived back from Cornwall after a fairly lengthy drive, and to get back in to the swing of things I dived right in to the deep end at work. This weekend there was a complete power shutdown on the campus for some “essential electrical work”. This required us to shut down all our machines, wait a few …
I finally decided to put an end to comment spam – I’ve installed a captcha. Whilst I was away on holiday I received around 3-5 spams a day, so rather than just deleting them I figured I needed to prevent them. The wordpress docs are a really useful resource. I decided to go with SecureImage since it looked fairly good, …
In an attempt to allow my mind to rest from work-related matters I’m heading off to Cornwall for a couple of weeks. I’ll be back for the Easter weekend when I’ll be shutting down all our systems at work for a campus-wide power shutdown.
Not that long ago I questioned how long it would be until I got comment spam on this blog. It didn’t take long for that to be answered; over the past day or two I’ve had 3 of them. Admittedly that’s not too many, but given this blog has only been running for two weeks that’s a pretty depressing start. …
If you’ve been following my blog you’ll know that I’ve been working on a new filestore project at work for a while now. After getting things working nicely on our Solaris machines, and finally moving my home directory over, I decided to tackle our Debian server. It quickly became apparent that I’d need to upgrade the machine, which was running …
Its been months in the making, but it’s finally done. We have our new filestore ready to go. There’s still plenty to do, like rolling it out for the teaching machines and web filestore, but at least we’ve got the main part done. So why has it taken so long? I spent a long time researching and testing the technologies …
It looks like the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker is finally back up and running after being offline for a week. It seems they had a hardware failure of some kind which knocked out their whole TB operation. I appreciate this is a free service, but it’s still a pain not having it available. That said, I was reluctant to change to another …
If there’s one thing that drives me completely insane in the modern world of computing it’s spam. It consumes my time, day after day, and devours the resources of our mail systems. In my own mailbox I get a few hundred spam messages a day, most of which I’ll never even see, let alone read. Thankfully most of these are …