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At 13:11 BST the server crashed due to overheating. The system was restarted by 15:21 BST.
There’s a general fault (actually, faults) in my area, so this site will be down for some time, I expect. Service over the last couple of days has…
This morning at 00:18 BST the cable connection went down. Service was restored at 01:00 BST. It wasn’t just the cable modem that went – all of the…
Due to a VPN at work, the desire to IPSec from home and a collision of IP ranges, I needed to use a different range for home. Don’t…
Cool – giving Google the search phrase ‘wincvs ssh‘ means that the guide on this site is the 7th hit !
I gave in on Saturday and got a G3 with 256MB CF card from Digital Depot. What a very nice camera 🙂 No real gallery to speak of…
Ok, the battery is fine. Ahem. Turns out that plugging in my monitoring cable stops the UPS from running from the battery… That’s some cable design, eh ?…
Ok, so the crashes may not have been so odd – my UPS might be dead 🙁 I (finally) made up a simple APC UPS cable, and built…
The first crash since the extra RAM and h/drive were added. No clue just yet. The system went down just after 20:24 local time, and returned at 21:33,…
I’ve been having problems for sometime when transferring JPG files via 802.11 from my iBook to the Qube. The files can be sent via SMB or ftp, and…
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…
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),…
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…
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),…
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…