It’s been nearly 2 years since I intially set up my IPv6 connectivity, and back then I had some problems with the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker. Now it seems that without much notice the service has been taken down permanently, so I’ve just spent quite a few hours moving over to a new provider – SixXS. My initial impression …
Yesterday we went and bought a new camera. I’ve been trying to decide what to get for ages now, and I’ve managed to go all the way back round to my first choice. We picked up a shiny new Nikon D80 with the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens from Jessops in Canterbury. I’d already purchased a pair of Sandisk 2GB SD cards …
Recently I changed my wife’s email address and user ID on eBay. It was pretty painless using their web interface… at least, that’s what I thought. The problems came a couple of weeks later when she was still receiving solicited promotional material to her old email address. I figured it wouldn’t be that hard to find out why, so I …
I started working on CSProjects quite a few months ago. Problems started early on. I began by bringing our software up-to-date. This included Apache, Python, Subversion, Trac and mod_python. It took some time, but I didn’t experience any problems… until I tried to run them. Seemingly at random, but quite frequently, the Apache children would get a Bus Error. I …
Today was a day we’ll remember for a while. Ruth & I got up early, but separately, and anxiously got ready. We met up with some family and friends in church, then headed out for a meal. The meal was concluded with some amusing anecdotes and some drinks. We enjoyed music in to the evening, danced a bit, ate some …
Not that I’m counting, but it looks like I have 39 years, 1 month and 11 days to go until I retire. Work out how long you have left using this handy calculator: State Pension Age Calculator
There are three credit referencing agencies used in the UK. They are Experian, Equifax and Callcredit. You have a statutory right to request a copy of the information they hold on you, for which you are charged £2. All of them offer full reports for around the £15 mark, but these just contain analysis and views on how lenders will …
Thursday 22 February. That’s the day it all went wrong. I was on my way home from a shopping trip at Sainsburys. We’d been on a Thursday instead of a Friday because we had to go to Cornwall on the Friday afternoon for a funeral (that’s bad thing number one). Just after leaving Sainsburys we came across an area that was …
Back in the middle of last year I wrote about our plans to tackle our NFS performance issues by introducing a direct and dedicated network link to carry our NFS traffic between the clients and the servers. We’d done the tests so we just had to implement it. First we waited for the financial year (1 August) to roll over …
So my current hosted server is getting a bit old. It’s not got enough RAM, and the disk in it is failing (yes, I did have RAID, more on that later). So it’s about time to get a replacement in. The guys over at Netrino have just installed a new machine for me. I say new, but it’s not a …