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It’s HAMMER Time

October 11, 2008 - Cool things , Linux - by admin - No Comments

A year ago Matthew Dillon went into some detail about the new HAMMER filesystem. It’s now reaching stability, and will hopefully be sent forth in the upcoming v2.0 release of DragonflyBSD. All the interesting bits can be discovered here and here. A few features to note, though, are… 1 Exabyte […]

EVE Online Badness

October 11, 2008 - Computers , Linux - by admin - No Comments

Recently EVE Online had been playing up. It was still in demo mode, but I quite fancied having a shot at it. The app was having none of it though… kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ eve Single-user install… This is the update checker… Running /home/kyleg/.cedega/.updater/cedega_updater.py Running… /home/kyleg/.cedega/.ui/runGUI kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ err:client:receive_fd FD went missing; attempting recovery […]

Location Location Location

September 8, 2008 - Internet , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

[ad] It’s time, and Ofcom are beginning to enforce the latest revision to General Condition 4, whereupon VoIP providers must, where technically feasible, provide location information for their VoIP users. In order to aid emergency services, they will transmit details of your fixed line location to the recipient when you […]

Typical

September 4, 2008 - Home - by admin - No Comments

This is why women should not be left to do electrical work 🙂

Track-It Madness

August 31, 2008 - Technology , Windows , Work , Zenworks - by admin - No Comments

Sadly we’re having to migrate to Track-It at work, and muggins here has been tasked with ensuring the agent can deploy nicely. After some initial crazyness with manual installs, or login script launched installs, I managed to wrap it into an MSI. Details can be found over here.