Twitter: @thatfleminggent

  • Really should use a templating engine for Meisha's website.. 21 hrs ago
  • Flicking some DNS zones around. #powerdns gsqlite3 backend really doesn't like apostrophes in TXT RRs :-P 1 day ago
  • "Firefox: It Won't Make Your Missus Puke" should be the next Mozilla slogan :-) 2 days ago
  • Questions With Obvious Answers Number 65535: Asking a sysadmin on a Friday afternoon if he wants a beer. 2 days ago
  • I hope rebirth really exists so my network administrator spends the next several lifetimes as a telemarketer. Thatll teach him. 2 days ago
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Michael Fleming

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That Fleming Gent Meets Leonidas

My long-running repository at ThatFlemingGent (or “Enlartenment” for those who haven’t caught up) is live and ready for use.
As releases have progressed the list I offer has become smaller, as many have been pulled into Fedora proper (either by me or other Fedora contributors), died upstream or just dropped due to lack of my/visitor interest
There’s [...]

This is why I’m not a “webmaster”

In an effort to help my girlfriends website generate a bit of traffic  - and some business for her - I’ve spent a bit of time (probably a little too much for a holidaying techie, but it’s a “love job”) trying to get my head around more indepth search engine optimisation and Google Analytics [...]

A Poutpourri and the GFC.

It’s felt like a long week so far but I must admit I’m faring better than some - I’m looking over resumes for friends at the moment ( I think I’ve seen more skill matrices than shell prompts today!) who’ve lost work over the past few weeks due to the GFC - redundancies and in [...]

Crackberries, Earth Hour and Web 2.0 boredom

After having a good laugh at “crackberry” users and their addiction for what seemed like forever, I gave in and traded in my not-trusty-at-all Nokia Slide for a Blackberry Storm.
After playing with it for a while, I must say it’s not bad. Getting used to typing with it was a pain in the arse (protip: [...]

Three little pre-Christmas requests.

Dear Lazyweb,
I’ve set up icecast as an  IPV6-only experiment (the result of a half-drunken challenge from Mr Steven Lisson Esq.) and am streaming some Ogg Vorbis tracks off it with EZstream. Winamp and Totem Player (Linux/Gnome) work fine. Banshee (Gnome/Mono) and WMP however do not - WMP freezes and Banshee refuses to even start the [...]