New home for www.tuxx
Tonight my server is being turned off until I get a connection sorted at the new house. Until such time e-mail and this web site are temporary located on a shared server. I’ve moved the home page,...
View ArticleHiding that last clue
Came across a tip last night that shows how to make all your web browsing about as private as reasonably possible when at work/school. Most techies know how to hide your web browsing habits using ssh...
View ArticleSCO – And so it ends
I distinctly remember reading about SCO v. Novel when I started my university placement in summer 2003. At the time I talked with a long term unix user and colleague who hadn’t seen the news. While...
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Need more power
Hard disk are about one of the more power hungery components of any computer system. This isn’t normally an issue when the hard disk is inside your computer where it can pillage as much electricity...
View ArticleImpossible Uptime
Gone are the days when I used to be able to keep my Linux server up and running for upwards of 150+ days. These days updates are so frequent that I just about manage a month before the next set are...
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DVD Region – Changes remaining: 0
Roll back to November and my brother calls me from Germany: Brother: I can’t play any of my DVD’s, only the one I got in Canada. And it wont let me change the region back. Me: How many times have you...
View ArticleCould not find remote server…
That’s more or less the error message I got some time in February. I was sat at my computer doing some work with a remote database while at the same time catching up on Life in Cold Blood on the BBC’s...
View ArticleUpgrade Weekend for Tuxx
The blog, gallery, and webmail have all been updated this weekend to the latest version I run Roundcube for my webmail system and this finally reached a stable release in early March. Gallery runs my...
View ArticleRenewing a Self Signed Certificate
My self signed certificate ran out yesterday so I needed to generate a new certificate. I still have the key from my original certificate (obviously), but for some reason I couldn’t find the...
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SERVFAIL
The environment at work is a mix of Windows and Unix. The standard build for the laptops is Windows XP, with a few Macs. Oh and the the odd Linux install  Of course with a network of a certain...
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