JDesktopPane Replacement
As as I mentioned before I’ve been recently converting an old project to Java. This old project was an MDI application, and when creating the UI for the conversion, I found the default JDesktopPane to...
View ArticleNew Phone – T-Mobile G1.
Recently I acquired a T-Mobile G1 to replace my old T-Mobile MDA Vario 2 (HTC Hermes). All I can say about this phone is that it is quite awesome. I no longer need to run an exchange server to keep my...
View ArticleGitWeb Hacking.
Recently I setup gitweb on one of my servers to allow a web-based frontend to any git projects which the users of the server place in their ~/git/ directory. After playing about with it, I noticed that...
View ArticleIdent Server
I recently encountered a problem on a server that I manage where by the oidentd server didn’t seem to be working. Manual tests worked, but connecting to IRC Servers didn’t. I tried switching oidentd...
View ArticleWordPress
I have recently decided to switch this site to use wordpress rather than the custom code that was here before. This will allow me to edit/post to the site using my phone, which will probably allow me...
View ArticleSending SMS with a Huawei E220
Today I decided to play with an old Huawei E220 I have lying around. After getting it setup and recognised in Linux by following the first 5 steps from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3656717...
View ArticleUbuntu on HP Compaq Mini 311c-1030SA
I recently purchased a HP Compaq Mini 311c-1030SA with Nvidia ION and built in 3G, unfortunately the 3G card is a “UN2400” which isn’t supported right out of the box as it requires proprietary...
View ArticleGreasemonkey script for hp.com forums
If you’ve ever visited the hp.com forums you’ll know that any links in the post get enclosed by a call to “javascript:openExternal(“)” in the href rather than doing it properly in onClick. Amongst...
View ArticleA tale of two monitors
So, a while back (just under 3 years ago) I obtained 2 of Hyundai’s W240D monitors. These monitors had (I believe) PVA panels and worked fine for most of their life so far. A while back they both...
View ArticleIPv6 with Endian Community Firewall (EFW) 2.4.0
First post in over a year! Oops. For a while now, my home ADSL provider (EntaNET) has provided me with an IPv6 allocation, but I’ve never really used it (Its been on my to-do list for some time)...
View ArticleUpdate iptables on Endian Community Firewall (EFW) 2.4.0
Compiling ip6tables on Endian Community Firewall (EFW) 2.4.0 Unfortunately the version of ip6tables available at the time of fedora core 3 doesn’t support the ‘state’ or ‘comment’ modules for use with...
View ArticleMicrosoft Lync on Linux
Update: This post still gets a lot of search traffic hits, but is now over a year old, and I no longer have a need to use Lync, so haven’t needed to keep this working. I believe that the Ubuntu repos...
View ArticleIRC Musings
Contents DMDirc DFBnc My “Listmode” Proposal My “Timestamped IRC” Proposal DMDirc I am one of the developers for an IRC Client called DMDirc (More information can be found on the site). I’m primarily...
View ArticleGMail – apply labels to email from group members – Redux
A while ago I posted a python script that allowed automatically adding labels to GMail messages based on contact groups. Unfortunately, a side effect of this script was that Google occasionally would...
View ArticleWebsite Reshuffle
Over the past few weekends I’ve been (slowly) working on moving my websites around a bit so that things are all in once place, and in the case of this blog, no longer hosted on my home ADSL connection....
View ArticleLimiting the effectiveness of DNS Amplification
I recently had the misfortune of having a server I am responsible for used as a target for DNS Amplification, and thought I’d share how I countered this. (Whilst this was effective for me, your mileage...
View ArticleIt’s been a while…
It’s been a while since I updated this. Not through a lack of wanting to, more a combination of things - lack of time, lack of anything worth writing, hating the old blog theme… So I’ve replaced the...
View ArticleMoving to Hugo
For a while now I’ve been thinking of moving this blog to a statically generated site rather than using wordpress. There are a number of reasons for this: I can version-control the content rather than...
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