It's probably been coined already, and I'm sure it's not a new realisation. Something happened at my employer recently that's made me wonder whether the old benchmark of "enterprise-grade" is really relevant any more.Our internal IM system was closed down for a while this week, and when it was restarted a number of us could … Continue reading Internet-grade
So I was catching up on the RSS feeds I subscribe to, and came across an article on the latest issue of Full Circle (a magazine about goings-on around Ubuntu Linux). In it I found an article on OpenTTD, an open-source clone of the old 90's game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. As one who spent many … Continue reading OpenTTD
Since I have a few Cisco phones around here, I've played with XML apps. I have written a timezone calculator, an LDAP phone directory lookup utility (which hooks into the "external directory" function of the phones), an app that uses Qantas' WAP interface to get flight arrival/departure information, and the obligatory RSS reader. They work, … Continue reading Cisco XML apps: things made of fail
Since I watch Planet KDE it was easy to get caught up in the excitement around the launch of the new version of KDE (the announcement is here). I was unable to resist giving it a try on the laptop! So this post is coming from Konqueror 4.0.0.I tried an early Beta of the KDE … Continue reading KDE 4.0: be free.
In part one I mentioned how I was considering using Google Talk as my main chat ID. As it turns out, I talked myself out of it pretty quickly after I delved into using Google Talk to connect to MSN and other services as I do now with my own Jabber server. While there are … Continue reading Jabber and Google: part two
I've developed a very strong desire to be connected to people recently. In the last fortnight I've reawakened my Google account and regularly sit on Google Talk, reawakened an old Free World Dialup account and plugged it into my home phone system, and signed up to Twitter. I also found a mobile IM and SIP … Continue reading Which Nokia device to get?
I reactivated an idle Google account the other day. A friend of mine from the Netherlands invited me ages ago but I never really did anything with it until I discovered that a Google Mail account can be used for other Google stuff as well, including Google Talk. I read that Google Talk is based … Continue reading Jabber and Google, part one
I've been running jabberd2 from ~x86 for ages. Tonight I went to make some config changes, and stopped and started jabberd using the init script like usual. Things were different though, as the init script didn't shut down all the Jabber tasks and I had to stop them manually. When I went to restart it, … Continue reading Gentoo + jabberd = aargh
Something ugly happened to my LDAP database a while back, and I never noticed. I saw it had lost a bunch of records, but I'd put it down to some replication problem and never investigated. It wasn't until I tried to replace one of the lost records, and got an error from LDAP telling me … Continue reading OpenLDAP database recovery
I've read a few "this was my year" blog posts in the last day or so; no doubt I'll read a few more in coming days. I honestly can't remember much of positive significance happening this year, compared to last year (which was huge). For a few reasons though, I am glad that this year … Continue reading Another year over…
Crossed Wires 