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Saturday, February 12th, 2005Just got back from the post office and I’ve installed my brand new 1/2GB RAM chip in my server and it seems much happier. I could well be imagining it but Pebble seems much more responsive
Mem: 484192k total, 265932k used, 218260k free, 18864k buffers
Swap: [...]
iPod Headphones
Friday, February 11th, 2005I really don’t understand why people spend £200+ on an iPod and then use the cheap and nasty headphones that they ship with. They:
Are going to get you mugged
Are poor quality
Are very quiet (not helped by the iPods low volume output)
Leak noise to all around you (I was sat next to a guy on the [...]
iPodShuffle Update!
Thursday, February 10th, 2005Apparently they tried to deliver it yesterday but I wasn’t in (wierd that TNT didn’t leave a card). Looks like I’m off to Luton to pick it up! This will give me a good chance to test the Quest on a longer journey where I don’t know where I’m going and with a via (need [...]
What a week!
Thursday, February 10th, 2005We had an incredible week in Val Thorens. I honestly don’t remember the last time I saw that much snow. The off-piste was as great as I remembered (especially the stuff up above Mottaret)! We had a good few inches (10 maybe) in the middle of the week which took the conditions from great to [...]
Took my Garmin Quest out for a spin
Thursday, February 10th, 2005After some wierd problems not being able to load the detail maps onto it (solved by clearing all user data from it). I plotted a route to the Sainsburys in London Colney (strangely it didn’t know about the one in St Albans).
Apart from trying to send me down a road that’s blocked off it did [...]
More power Igor!
Thursday, February 10th, 2005I caved in and bought half a gig of RAM for my poor bewildered little server. It’s sitting in the post office (the RAM not the server) at the moment so I won’t be abe to install it until the weekend. Hopefully this will ease some of the problems we’ve been having. I only had [...]
In pursuit of the perfect cuppa!
Friday, January 28th, 2005I can’t believe nobody has thought of this before! Now you can get the perfect cuppa by buying a mug in the correct shade of brown to match how you take your tea!
Graphical View of Disk Space Usage
Friday, January 28th, 2005I keep on finding useful things on John’s Blog! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while! SpaceMonger shows you graphically how much space is being used (and where) on your hard drives
~30,000 hits this month!
Friday, January 28th, 2005Regular readers may have noticed we’ve been having some problems maintaining service recently (Tomcat crashed, Tomcat memory problems, Tomcat memory problems ) Well I was looking at my weblogs today and it seems we’ve had 30,000 hits this month! Think I will have to look at spreading the load between my two (very low [...]
Free SSL Certificates
Friday, January 28th, 2005Wow, this took a long time to find. CAcert offer free SSL certificates. I haven’t got one yet but it’s on my list!
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