Archive for May, 2008
RHEL5 "yum upgrade" problems
May 31st
In the middle of doing a big upgrade of my babies… Err blade servers… Doing an upgrade from RHEL5.1 to RHEL5.2 across the internet in an SSH session and hit a hell of a problem. File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlite/main.py”, line 97, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError, key AttributeError: CHECKSUM_VALUE I don’t know what caused this to happen, I…
No Age of Conan for me :-(
May 29th
In one of those twists, I pre-ordered a copy of Age of Conan Collectors Edition when it was first made available here in New Zealand. That makes me one of the only 111,000 people world wide to have a copy of this edition. How do I know how many people have it? Because Funcom originally…
Finally switched to Firefox 3 at home
May 27th
So tonight I get home from work and get the call up from the boss saying one of our clients would like me to copy 68GB of data from a Linux server to a USB drive attached to a USB1.1 port on a Windows server. Oh, and it has to be done before the backup…
Clinton talks of assassination
May 24th
After some of her previous comments, how can anyone not take this as a veiled assassination threat? Given many of her other remarks that have come across as racist, this time it sounds like she’s inviting some whack job out there to do something completely foolish in California. Clinton was asked during a meeting with…
Captcha Working!
May 21st
Okay, so I know I really should be concentrating on other things right now, but this is something that has been bugging me for a while and the damn bots are getting more frequent. So after clearing a freaking huge amount of spam submissions from my inbox tonight, and then completing the bonus for Sanctum…
Firefox 3.0 RC1 is out
May 19th
Mozilla has released the first Release Candidate of Firefox 3.0. You can download Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC1 immediately. Remember, this is still not completed software, however it should be stable enough that you can use it as your primary browser without too much problems. As with all RC releases of any software, this is feature…
Google’s new DocType project
May 18th
Well, Google just saved me from writing a million Wiki pages myself. I was intending on putting as much of the knowledge I have about web development into my wiki, but with this new project, theres no way I’m going to bother. Google has just released the Google Doctype Project for general consumption and used.…
Virtualisation – A sideways glance
May 17th
One of the biggest trends moving through the IT industry at the moment is the concept of virtualisation. Running multiple operating systems on a single piece of hardware is seen as a way of reducing costs while at the same time getting better utilisation of your existing hardware. A single server becomes host to multiple…
A whole lot of site news
May 13th
I was going through some of the stuff on the Google Webmaster site when I noticed that a lot of people have been visiting the 2 year old discussion about Artificial Consciousness recently. Given the age of the post I can understand why people don’t comment on it anymore, but I do admit I’m surprised…
The Man Cold
May 13th
Brooke found this last month, but its sooo true. I’m getting a mancold myself at the moment. Struggling through the day and trying to survive. Its so hard, but you just have to battle through it because there are so many people relying on you. I’ll be back in bed early again tonight. Was there…