Category Archives: Home Life
New Toy to play with
I have absolutely no real use for a 3G portable wireless network router. So I went out and got one. A vodaphone pre-pay wifi router, just a smallish one that only allows five connections, even though I only need one … Continue reading
Valentines Day, ho-hum
* LUKS encrypted the external portable disk I carry around in the laptop bag * Updated my laptop to all the latest patches (linux and win7 partitions) * Updated my kickstart and VM servers to the latest patches * Updated … Continue reading
I think I have stressed my poor car
Got bored on tuesday and took it for a little spin, not far, it was under 400Km for the round trip. Around 300Km into the trip there started to be a really load annoying whining sound. It’s not from the … Continue reading
WordPress, why does it need internet access ?.
WordPress runs like a dog without internet access. I had powered off my network routers, as I’m nice to other internet users and didn’t want my internal host discovery/penetration testing etc to spill outside my own network… and wordpress just … Continue reading
To the Vet again
Had to take poor Fletcher to the vet again. The poor boy is getting old. When I got home on saturday he was in such a hurry to greet me he banged his leg against something running to the door. … Continue reading
More expense, another burst pipe
What a morning. Sleep interrupted by my pager, all that was sorted. Then I got up this morning, and realised I had to interrupt someone elses day, an urgent call to a plumber; there is not supposed to be water … Continue reading
Another disk failure, must be that time of year
Another expensive few weeks, lots of bills all at once. And now it appears I have had another disk drive failure, a 320Gb (boot and OS disk) one in my main patching server; fortunately the patching components are mirrored to … Continue reading
C64 playtime
Playing with C64 emulators again. Still haven’t decided which one to use. FRODO compiles under Fc14, Vice does not. However VICE is available as a binary from RPMFUSION repositories for FC14 anyway which does work. Under Linux, my preferred OS, … Continue reading
Trying to find a usable disk erasure tool.
My Ex wants something to overwrite securely all space left by those deleted files; as we all know deleting a file doesn’t delete the actual data off the disk. The reason being she wants to be able to pass on … Continue reading
Triple boot from OSX now working, but life is a bitch
Finally got that working. Now my new desktop can boot into OSX, Vista and Fedora. The Vista image is pre-SP1, as I just can’t get SP1 to install on there at all, but that will be in another post. Where … Continue reading