Category Archives: General

Last week I noticed just how poorly organised the music collection on the home server had become. It’s inevitable that over the years things will change and so I was expecting it to be a little messy, but what I … Continue reading →

We’ve been using SQL for storing various Spamassassin data for the last few years. It’s allowed us to provide our users with a lot of control and has been a good solution. However, a mixture of a inattention and a … Continue reading →

I’ve been developing a small app that should be a good fit for CouchDB. It’s a small app that will allow me to keep a series of notes, some of which are plain text and some are formatted in particular … Continue reading →

This is another of the “this is to help me remember what I did to cure this problem” type posts. Having recently updated the mail server an old issue resurfaced that caused one of my users to be unable to … Continue reading →

I prefer to have the window buttons on the right, which I finally managed to do in gnome-shell using gconftool-2 –set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout –type string “:minimize,maximize,close” Happy days.

When I started Variable Pitch my intent was to display the information in a clear, unbiased way as a counter to the frequently emotional debate around wind energy. It’s likely very naive but I believe that the information should speak … Continue reading →

My experiments with writing my little Android app have gone better than I expected and so far I’ve yet to find anything that I’m unable to do. Of course all these small building blocks need to contribute to a whole … Continue reading →

For the package I’m developing I have a single_page that I’m adding as one of the key pages for displaying and managing the information. The information is stored as pages and pages attributes, so this main page will have a … Continue reading →

Linux Mint doesn’t like the Ubuntu method of upgrading. They tell you all the bad things that can happen and why they think nuking your partition is a far better idea in their upgrade instructions. In principal they may be … Continue reading →

Earlier in the year we ordered made to measure curtains from Laura Ashley. They quoted 7 weeks delivery but arrived 5 weeks after our order and have been exactly what we wanted. Following this experience, deciding to place a subsequent … Continue reading →

I last wrote about our experiences with HBOS in This is not the bank you want, but tonight has proved that things really could get worse. Towards the end of April we opened a new account with Halifax to try … Continue reading →

It would have been a busy weekend for us without the problems a server upgrade threw my way, but one nice change is that Rosie now has her own blog! She’s been on a journey of discovery getting wordpress installed … Continue reading →

It’s been one of those days again. We had a lot of small tasks to do while in town this afternoon and the 2 hours we had was always going to be a short time, but with some fast walking … Continue reading →

In my attempts to get a home built kernel running on my phone I’ve had quite a few times where things haven’t quite worked and I end up stuck at the HTC screen. As there isn’t any output via USB … Continue reading →

I’ve spent a bit of time looking at a module that would allow the camera sensor on my phone to work with the new ICS interface. I’ve not made as much progress as I’d have liked, but have the start … Continue reading →

It’s time. I’ve finally had enough of the workarounds and issues thrown up by Ubuntu’s change to Unity. So, Linux Mint looks like it will tick most of my boxes and appears to have a growing community around it (quite … Continue reading →

Since getting the bifferboard booting and discovering that the opkg python segfaults, I’ve been looking at getting a custom build of OpenWRT (that includes python) built. On the face of it this should be straightforward, but sadly it hasn’t quite … Continue reading →