Ronnie Barker has died. Fantastically funny man, he will be missed.

Despite what I said previously, when I opened my PC to replace the RAM inside, I found two 512MB sticks rather than a single 1GB stick. This meant that I only needed to discard the faulty module and could keep the good one. Added to the newly-purchased replacement RAM, I have three 512MB sticks now:… (read more)

There is a documentary on Sky One this evening called “Inside Britain’s Fattest Man”, which has the following description in the TV guide: “Meet Barry Austin, who weighs 50 stone and can drink 40 pints of beer a day. The intrepid Richard Hammond takes a virtual tour inside Barry to see what he looks like… (read more)

Home PC has been doing a couple of Odd Things lately. Nothing specific or reproducbile, just Odd Things. Well, there was the occasional ‘CRC check’ errors at boot up, which Shouldn’t Ever Happen. A classic sign of a RAM problem. A quick run of memtest86+ shows a single, broken bit at the 570MB mark. Hmmm…. (read more)

Yesterday, at a garden centre near here … on walking through the entrance we were greeted with this: I swore under my breath, deliberately close to a member of staff. I’m not sure it really made me feel better. It’s SEPTEMBER, people, get a grip …

Yarr! Ahoy, there! etc. It be another Talk Like A Pirate Day

New-look web-site, new system behind the scenes

For various reasons throughout the week, I’ve been delving somewhat deeper into the world of Debian packaging and how that works. The start of it stems from a bug report I raised a while ago against the odbc-postgresql package. Basically, when an ODBC client tried to ‘describe’ a PostreSQL table (i..e “show me the names… (read more)

Sometimes you discover stuff that things you’ve used for years can be made easier to use. Like Open SSH for example. When connecting to remote hosts, with different usernames and sometimes different ports, you often need to use long-winded command-line options: ssh username@somehost ssh otherusername@someotherhost ssh -p 1234 yetanotherusername@yetanotherhost However, you can edit your ~/.ssh/config… (read more)