Just in case anyone else has a DAB receiver (I don’t – this was done for a friend), you can use RG58 50ohm network cable for long runs from an antenna with very good results.
Ok, so the starting point was poor (an indoor dipole), and the final installation has a Yagi in the loft space, [...]
In an attempt to speed things up, my Qube now has more RAM and a larger hard drive.
The RAM has been bumped to 196KB total (from 96KB), and the drive is now a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax 16. Preparing the drive was fairly easy – I’ve partitioned many drives to Qube format by now, thanks [...]
Ok, so things ought to be a little smoother now, as it’s far less likely that any one download can fill my outgoing bandwidth.
I was having lots of trouble getting mod_throttle to work for me, but after reading a tip over at MacOS X Hints, I’ve added mod_bandwidth and got it working without any trouble. [...]
Ok, so I’m now using my own XML/PHP based solution, but things are not fully restored.
Some items have been broken for a long time (like the gallery), but other items are freshly stuffed, like the blog search, uptime, virus/exploit logs and archives.
I’m working my way through these items, but getting the gallery fixed is ahead [...]
I’ve finally got fed up with the poor performance of the site and my machine, and have ditched the database blogging software. I’m most of the way through gamma[*] testing my own XML/PHP based software, and the date related problem that has held me up since the middle of January turn out to be [...]