Have spent a little time in the last couple of days hacking the source for Request Tracker so that it can do more than it does currently. Seems to have been successful. Normally, new un-owned requests generate email to queue watchers (those servicing the technical support queries), but don’t appear on the web interface until… (read more)

As Martin has pointed out, I haven’t posted anything here for a while. The reasons are obvious, of course. Mainly, though, I haven’t posted here because I haven’t had much to rant about. Most of my rants are work-related and I haven’t been at work since Jennifer was born, therefore No Rants Q.E.D. … 🙂… (read more)

Jennifer Dawn arrived at 08:34 on Friday 12.03.2004: Everyone doing well!

Today, three very exciting things happened to me on Slashdot – well, exciting if you happen to be very geeky … I submitted a story and it was accepted for publication on the front page – go me! The story was about the advance release of the DVD version of ‘Lord of the Rings: Return… (read more)

Well, yesterday was an exciting day. We were seeing loads of these new password-protected zip-file viruses – the virus is inside an attachment, the password for which is included in the body of the email. Our copy of Sophos Anti-Virus wasn’t detecting these zip files until late in the day – although it was detecting… (read more)

My first ‘+5’ comment on Slashdot – hurrah. Comment is here in a thread about mail clients and IMAP. Two ‘+1 Informative’ and two ‘+1 Insightful’, which is nice. I do know that one of those mods was from a work colleague, but still … 😀

What a bunch of muppets. As reported at the BBC reasonably accurately for once, albeit with not much detail, a web hosting company called EV1 Servers has decided to bow to pressure from SCO to buy “a license to use Linux which contains SCO’s intellectual property”, as SCO would say. EV1 claim to have done… (read more)

Been investigating various different encryption plugins for email clients and seeing how they interoperate. Yes, I know, some people do gardening or go for a walk on a Sunday afternoon, but … Under investigation: Mutt, using GnuPG, under Linux (this is my ‘standard’ setup that I use all the time) – rock solid, stable, configurable;… (read more)

I’m not making this up, honestly. This morning I got an email from a colleague, saying “Dave, I can’t send email.” … erm, yeah, OK. My reply was simply “Yes, you can.” and I heard nothing more. Suppose I shouldn’t be surprised really, as this sort of thing is inevitable in my line of work… (read more)

It arrived yesterday. The Database Server. Shiny black case containing the nicest bit of hardware it has ever been my opportunity to get my hands on. For the record: dual 2.4GHz Pentium-IV Xeon processors, 2GB RAM, a 36GB system disk and a RAID-1 mirrored-pair of 72GB ‘data’ disks for our databases. The standard Debian installation… (read more)