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Archive for March 2004

Code monkey

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)

Still here …

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

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

Slashdot karma boost

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)

Viruses, viruses, everywhere …

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’ on Slashdot

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 … 😀

Some muppet has actually given SCO *money*

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)