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August 28th, 2007

Bad Superblock

My little mini-itx server does a sterling job as a home server. It makes available images, video and music all round my house via my wireless router/adsl modem. Just before I went on holiday I booted it and it would not start. When we got back from our hols I investigated the problem further and after rummaging around found that the fstab file had become corrupted. I duly fixed this ...

June 6th, 2007

Another use for Milk (and Lego)

I saw this on Hackaday - it's really clever. There is an Instructable here

October 19th, 2006

Web Development vs Cleaning Products

Is it me or are there a number a web development terms that are the same as some cleaning products. Here are the ones I have come across so far: SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - I think the connection with cleaning is obvious! AJAX - household cleaners - not sure it is still sold as AJAX in the UK though. Flash - A recent new advertising campaign for Flash ...

October 31st, 2005

VMware Player with your own Windows XP Professional Virtual Machine

I've played with VMWare before - this could be a quite a good way of setting up testing machines for different browsers. I never seem to have time for this kind of stuff though!

March 11th, 2003

Samba

Samba - On my new little computer I have installed Red Hat 9 which is quite cool. It comes with samba as one of the packages. Samba is a bit of software which provides smb shares on a linux machine. I thought it would be useful to set it up as I mainly use a Windows machine and it would be good to use the my new ...