Extracting album art from iTunes
iTunes does a good job of fetching album artwork, but how can I extract them for using in SqueezeCenter?
Year: 2008
Exhange 2007 OOF (Out Of Office) and Free/Busy Availability, fixed
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks on and off trying to figure out why the OOF (Out Of Office) and Free/Busy availability information were broken in our Outlook 2007 clients. It turned out to be the fault of a dodgy Exchange update.
FreeBSD filesystem snapshots
Being able to take snapshots of a filesystem is very handy for backups, but does it actually work on FreeBSD?
Eduroam on FreeBSD
How to get the Eduroam wireless network at the University of Kent to work on FreeBSD.
Current Cost Electricity Meter
A look at the Current Cost electricity meter and how to produce pretty graphs from it.
A new router (Soekris, Draytek and NanoBSD)
A look at how I replaced my ageing router and ADSL modem with a Soekris net5501 running FreeBSD.
Dovecot is a neat piece of software
For many years now (since before I started working at the University) we’ve been using University of Washington’s IMAP and POP daemons. They worked well, and (through an old bit of unsupported code) also allowed our MH users to access their email. As time went on people wanted to do more than UW’s software could offer. Things like nested folders, …
“Disc quota exceeded”
Today we saw a strange problem on our Solaris hosts that NFS mount VxFS filestore from our Veritas cluster. The users were seeing “Disc quota exceeded” messages, whilst the quota command wasn’t showing they’d hit their limit. After some digging on the cluster node we found the following error message: Sep 12 11:04:33 bes vxfs: [ID 702911 kern.warning] WARNING: msgcnt …
CSProjects Upgrade
Since launching CSProjects last year we’ve had nearly 80 projects set up on it. I’m pleased with the success it’s had so far, but I’m still surprised by people not knowning about it. Recently I’ve been trying to do more to publicise it, with some success. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve spent some time sorting out the upgrade …