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I've been thinking about resurrecting the zCast.  If I do, it will not follow the same format as it had...A couple of episodes of the Leo Laporte/Steve Gibson "Security Now" podcast I've heard recently have been worth modelling; I'll just talk about how things work and stuff.  I'm not close enough to the zSeries action to be … Continue reading Return of Vic’s podcast?

As if I ever needed more evidence that my computers have personalities and conspire against me...  Yesterday I took the ISDN card out of eagle and moved it to majestic now that the build of Trixbox on majestic is stabilising.  As if to sulk, today eagle's power supply failed.I know that it was sulkiness, because it did … Continue reading More system weirdness

I must be the proudest Dad on Earth.  Well, me and every other father of a two-year-old I guess!  Nicholas is learning new things day-by-day, and continuing to amaze us all.  He has a fantastic memory with his storybooks, and his vocabulary is immense (even though his anunciation and diction is standard-two-year-old!).One of his favourite tricks at the … Continue reading Nicholas the amazer

It seems I messed up part of the network moves a couple of weeks ago, and as a result the Crossed Wires campus has been off the air for as long.  Basically I was not letting any external traffic through the firewall (the real description is more technical, but that's it in a nutshell).  So if you're … Continue reading Oops… We didn’t really leave, honest

Went looking for Asterisk@Home, and got bounced to something called Trixbox.  Seems they've just decided to rename the project -- maybe Digium got upset with them using "Asterisk" in their name, maybe they decided that "Asterisk@HomeOrOffice" didn't quite roll off the tongue so well...  Whatever the reason, what used to be Asterisk@Home now is called Trixbox.  There you … Continue reading Asterisk@Home is dead, long live Trixbox

Lots of activity here over the last week or so.  I've now pretty-much officially given up the diskless PBX plan.  I've pressed the old dual-Athlon box into service as a VMware Server platform, and since it's running CentOS I decided to install Asterisk@Home on it and use it as the PBX (I was going to run an … Continue reading System changes

Is it me, or is somebody just not thinking?  It seems like Gentoo has a beef against monolithic packages like KDE and X.org.  The recent builds of these have been broken up into (as many as) hundreds of separate ebuilds -- in the case of KDE, instead of the monolithic kdepim for example, each package that came … Continue reading KDE 3.5 Gentoo ebuilds

I've bitten the bullet and decided that NPTL has been floating around for long enough now that it should be pretty-much shaken out.  So I've rebuilt glibc on enterprise (which was needing an update anyway) with NPTL enabled.  Now the fun will start!

Here's best wishes to Mothers everywhere that not only was yesterday nice, but every day!My Mother's Day effort for Susan involved the cooking of omlette on toast (I was trying for the rolled-up style like the hotel chefs do, but I used too large a pan so it ended up more like an egg crepe) … Continue reading Happy Mother’s Day