Peter's Blog

New Blog

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:35:28 GMT

I've moved my blog here. It is now hosted by Site5 and it runs on Drupal.

Parasites

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:59:28 GMT

Some parasite posted a comment to an entry in this blog that was just a list of links to other websites, probably to boost google rankings. I'm fuming at these parasites. I've deleted the comment. It ... read more

del.icio.us

Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:07:28 GMT

Latest discovery is this awkwardly named site. It's a stream of interesting links recently submitted by people. I find it interesting to scan through when I run out of RSS feeds. In fact it can generate ... read more

Gmail seepage

Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:06:24 GMT

Google know how to make me happy. They've given me 6 gmail invites. I'll be giving them to friends/family. I won't sell them on ebay, not even to recoup my �1.30 investment.

I got a spam message ... read more

Living with Spamassassin

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:48:48 GMT

Spamassassin at work is detecting spam nicely, no false positives so far although some false negatives are getting through. I don't have a big enough spam or ham corpus to get the bayesian spam filter ... read more

BackupBuddyVFS to the rescue

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:47:12 GMT

Last time I looked at the Palm T2 the battery was flat so I put it on charge. Turned it on this morning to find out time of an appointment and the thing was totally reset, back to initial settings.

It ... read more

No email after syslog-ng death

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:06:24 GMT

Back to work after weeks holiday and only 4 emails? The culprit was syslog-ng which died the day after I left work (software efficiency) so email systems refused to work. Did

/etc/init.d/syslog-ng

One4All with Sky Plus

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:24:00 GMT

I got the key magic codes to program up the play, pause, fast forward, rewind and record buttons of my One4All four (URC 7740). By default these buttons are programmed up for things like 'Box Office', ... read more

GMail

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:18:40 GMT

Decided my email setup was still not complex enough so I bought a trendy Gmail invite on ebay for �1.30 (a bargain for a new toy) and set up my server to forward all mail to it. This way I can try gmail ... read more

Freeview

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:57:20 GMT

Installed a freeview box at mum's house. It was a Goodmans's thing, �55. This gives about 32 digital tv stations and a load of digital radio stations. Some observations:

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Procmail works but no email

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:56:32 GMT

After 5 days away I checked my email and was shocked to find absolutely none. Very odd. After a mild panic I worked out that procmail had diligently filtered my email into the correct mail folders but ... read more

State of Play

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:54:56 GMT

Sky Plus box seems to be fine after hard disk upgrade. I've been away and we've only watched one episode of 'Family Affairs' but that had no problems at all. During the 30x fast forward the box used ... read more

Sky Plus Fix

Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:48:00 GMT

The playback of recordings on my Sky Plus box was seriously degrading: almost every recording had glitches where playback suddenly jumps back a few seconds and compression artifacts are all over the ... read more

Ashford

Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:54:56 GMT

My first chance to photo blog from starbucks. Sunny day in ashford, not hot like it has been recently. Global ... read more

Hello from Dallas

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:48:48 GMT

Got a version of Visual Traceroute free on a cover disk. It's a souped-up traceroute that shows a world map and gives a host of peripheral information.

It confirms that this blog is hosted in ... read more