Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
My brother-in-law had the worst Acer TravelMate laptop (a 528TE) in the world. It wasn't a bad set of hardware, it was just that the plastic case had so completely degraded that he had to carry the laptop around in a cardboard box to keep all the pieces together. The ...
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
I broke the cardinal rule and updated to software that was only 1 day old. It seems I've been reasonably lucky and very little went wrong. I thought I'd better write some notes on what did go wrong just in case it happens to someone else and they lose a ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Apparently we just need to give a few day's notice to our local TM Point to terminate our Streamyx service. We've had it more than 2 years, and upgraded to 1Mbit/s last year. I was hosting a few sites of my own, just little ideas I wanted to work on, ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
I thought I'd better write a quick up date to the previous article I wrote, since it gets a lot of hits. The information is a bit outdated in the old article, and our problems have moved on since. I changed our sendmail config at lolyco.com some time ago, in ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Just a quick note, just in case someone else sees this message. I got this error this morning when I logged in as a non-root user on a Slackware server I'd upgraded yesterday. In an act of blind faith, I used 'slackpkg upgrade-all', and then the fun began.
Incidentally, if you're ...
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