technical
I’ve turned off the wp-supercache plugin on my site (I packaged and installed 0.9 last night) as it was throwing random 500 Internal Server errors. I’m not sure why though, the logs weren’t telling me anything useful. I’m running the APC PHP cache and mod_
bloodyidiots
Inquiring minds want to know how the following didn’t turn into a Darwin Awards nomination: Coming home from drinks with my good friend Steven, I was stopped and asked for directions by a middle aged couple in a reasonably priced car. This part is fine. However, they chose to
fedora
Per my musing yesterday, I’ve run up some game servers on qbert. Crossfire is turned off and I’ll wager no one notices. ? I have Battle For Wesnoth and Teeworlds running right now, ready to go. The Linux crowd will know Wesnoth well, and Teeworlds is good fun for
fedora
A different kind of week this week. I do need to go on a diet, or at least go back to my old one as Christmas has done little for my waistline. The Significant Other is trying to convince me to go gluten-free and hit the gym, which are both
humour
[https://i0.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/political-pictures-barack-obama-chill-out-got-this.jpg] Chill, I got thisBarry, just don’t fuck it up, k? Please bro? That last yokel really screwed the pooch. (pic courtesy of punditkitchen.com)
life
1. There are no tasteful Myspace layouts. It’s simply not possible 2. Most of the invites on above are spammers or struggling musos. No thanks.. 3. I like Perl’s way of writing to files better than Python’s 4. Olive oil makes a fast and effective makeup remover
fedora
I’ve pushed the last set of packages – mainly fixes for the XMPP transports, DKIMProxy and a new CitrusDB – for Fedora 8 just a few minutes ago. As of today it’s officially End Of Life (EOL) upstream as well, and I’ve got enough versions to deal with. If
life
This has been one of those times where a moment of quiet reflection is not suggested, but mandatory. Firstly, my near and dear is most upset over the loss of a favourite horse. Being the animal lover she is, loss of any animal companion is going to hit hard. Secondly,
technical
So, what have I done, where is the old site, you ask? Well, I figured that the site could do with an update. It’s been literally years since I’ve made a major change to it. However there’s a few problems with this: 1. I am not a
humour
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
technical
Don’t mind the disruption. I’ve just moved the blog to it’s own independent URL, just to keep things clean. Visitors and feed readers will be redirected automatically (a few lines of mod_rewrite here and there) I’ll restore the Gallery2 integration once I work out WTF
fedora
Fedora 10 (Cambridge) packages are live now. Mainly rebuilds, some old crap retired – but a nice addition for Ruby hackers in the Capistrano deployment framework. Go and get ’em here: http://www.thatfleminggent.com/packages/fedora/10/x86_64/repoview/index.html [https://www.thatfleminggent.com/packages/fedora/10/x86_