Recently I found a solution to a problem which has been nagging me for a while (ever since I switched to IMAP email actually). The problem? Synchronizing calendars and contact between my desktop and laptop PCs.
The solution I found is ScheduleWorld, a free synchronization service which allows you to share calendars, contacts, tasks and [...]
This afternoon I decided I needed a walk to clear my head (too much work, too little sleep) so, I found myself wanting to copy some new music* onto my iAudio X5L, something I haven’t done in a while. Like, since when I first bought and filled it a year ago. “No problem” thinks me, [...]
Tagged Hardware, Linux, MusicI’ve started using a wiki to hold random notes/guides/etc that I’ve made. It’s publicly accessible but not publicly editable. I’ve decided to put it online on the off chance that the information is useful to someone else (hey, it’s useful to me…). There’s not much there at the moment, but I’ll be updating it as [...]
Tagged GeneralAs anyone who’s spoken to me recently will probably have gathered, I have been having problems with my trusty ThinkPad T42. Problems in the form of random lockups. Not much fun… After weeks of frustration I finally determined that it was a hardware fault which (as I’m well out of warranty) would be rather expensive [...]
Tagged HardwareI found the time today to upgrade apache on my server to version 2.2. The upgrade appeared in ‘emerge -Dpu world’ a few weeks ago (IIRC), but I’d been putting off until I had the time to deal with it properly. Not much drama in the end, but I did have couple of issues. Here’s [...]
Tagged Gentoo, SysadminIt’s been a while since I really did anything with my HTPC - well, unless you count accessing the videos/music on it. Embarrassingly I’ve had it over 6 months, yet I haven’t found the time to get MythTV working.
Tagged HTPCA couple of weeks ago I decided to give Ubuntu a try. Why? Well, I’ve been recommending it to, and installing it for (none technical) people who are just getting started with Linux, while using Gentoo on my own systems, so I figured it was high time I gave it a try as my day-to-day [...]
Tagged LinuxI am in the process of setting up a Tomcat based hosting on omicron (in addition to the apache vhosts it does now). Having been burned before by unexpected traffic, I’ve begun by looking at the Tomcat server configuration, before attempting to ‘join’ it to apache. The first potential problems points which sprung to mind [...]
Tagged Java, SysadminI’ve just spent 10 minutes or so digging through database code looking for the source some rather troublesome SQLExceptions. One of the field names was ‘index’, and I wasn’t enclosing it in properly in the query.
That’ll teach me to use ‘index’ a field name…
So, after being impressed by beryl on my desktop today I tried to get it running on my laptop. It’s a ThinkPad T42 with a Radeon Mobility 7000 graphics card. It seems that for this hardware AIGLX is best method. After a lot of messing about to get DRI working properly (never bothered with it [...]
Tagged Gentoo, Software