by ezs | Jul 17, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Technology, Uncategorized, wordpress
I just updated two servers in the office to SLES 10 – officially launched today.
Things have improved since the internal alpha and beta releases – no problems so far – and very good hardware detection.
I’m writing a document on installing WordPress on SLES 10 – I’ll have that out soon.
[Edit – SLES 10 and WordPress 2.0.3 are running nicely together in my tests. I’ll update the Evil ZEN Scientist blog server tonight and see where that gets me.]
This blog is now running on SLES 10 – woo!
# tail /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586)
VERSION = 10
by ezs | Jul 9, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
So long Bon Echo – welcome Firefox 2.0 Beta 1
Available in the nightlys for Bon Echo – but should pop live as a ‘beta build’ soon I guess.
by ezs | Jul 6, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for over a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ‘something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomons labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
by ezs | Jul 3, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, wordpress
I’m struggling with some defects in WordPress 2.0.3 – specifically around the widget configurations.
I’ll dig into the code later – but for now I’m stuck with some half working widgets. Oh well.
by ezs | Jul 2, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Technology, Uncategorized, Utah
So finally we got to see "An Inconvenient Truth" - and it was stunning. A really well produced - but not slick and markety - and thought provoking film.
Al Gore did a great job of presenting the arguments - and did so in a very humbling, personal way.
A "must see" for everyone. Actually - I'll make that stronger - if you live in the developed world - and especially within the US - you must see this movie. Go with an open mind.
by ezs | Jun 23, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
Cingular have managed to turn my US cell phone into a brick while outside the US.
I can dial my voice mail – and that’s it.
Same phone just a few weeks ago was working perfectly – I was in Germany and I could dial globally. Now I just get ‘calls barred’ and a nice message in German.
Cingular are working on it.. Not much fun.
[Edit – I spoke again to the Cingular international support team – they now realise that something got broken on my account. They turned off my international roaming in one of the billing cycles. They said 72 hours to fix it. I said I spend thousands per month with them – fix it tonight or I go to another vendor. They promised by midnight Central time. Nice. Here’s hoping.]
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