by ezs | Jan 5, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I purchased PingPlotter over four years ago – and I’ve always liked the product features and support.
I lost my license key and emailed the author – Pete Ness – for a replacement.
Great service – response and license back within five minutes.
Support small software writers – go buy a copy of PingPlotter.
by ezs | Dec 31, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’ve been playing around with switching from Apache to lighttpd (lighty) for a while now; one of my dev boxes runs lighty reasonably well.
Couple of things:
– the openSUSE build system has pre-built RPMs for SLES
– PHP support is via FastCGI; it’s not exactly intuitive on SLES – but the correct php5 binary is actually placed into /srv/www/cgi-bin. I moved mine to /usr/bin and renamed it to php5-fastcgi
Some time in the next few days I’ll finally move the production environment live – but right now it’s looking faster and less memory intensive than Apache.
by ezs | Dec 29, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress
Now live:
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-232/
Download from:
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.zip
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.tar.gz
Works well so far.
by ezs | Dec 28, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Good news; the EXIN envelope arrived tonight – and I passed the ITIL v3 Foundation.
Now I’m looking for the ‘exact word’ on what’s needed for the v3 Diploma; it looks like I need to take the "ITIL Managers v2 to Managers v3 Bridging course" which is pushed to 2008.
by ezs | Dec 26, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Nice beta from Microsoft. This lets you move settings and applications from XP to Vista.

by ezs | Dec 26, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I passed the ITIL v2 Managers exams. Just missed a distinction on the Service Support – that’s the slightly sad part.
Otherwise good news.
by ezs | Dec 24, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
The results are in the post. Several people who were on the training sent out a ‘warning’ email saying they were arriving and to watch out for an anonymous looking white envelope.
I guess it’ll take a few extra days to get here.. Still waiting for the ITIL v3 Foundation results too.
This is worse than waiting for A-level results.
by ezs | Dec 24, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’ve been a-dancin’ around the house with the kids – Pogues on the speakers.
by ezs | Nov 29, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I borrowed a film scanner this week – and I’ve been scanning old (and crappy quality) APS films to TIFF files. The results are pretty good – considering the limitations of APS.
Here’s the stunning Taj Mahal, Agra, India taken in August 2001.
I needed to convert around 2000 TIFF files to something that was useful on the photo album – JPEG. I decided on ImageMagick – it’s open source, free and really comprehensive.
I love ImageMagick – it’s a core part of the image resizing and conversion for my online photo albums.
I wrote a one line batch file for Windows to do the conversion:
for %%f in (*.tif) do c:progra~1imagem~1.7-qconvert %%f %%~nf.jpg
Nice use of the macro – the %%~nf will strip the filename out of the full filename %%f. Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 2003 server allow this – HELP FOR gives the full detail; it’s buried quite deep.
by ezs | Nov 28, 2007 | ITIL, Uncategorized
I’m in Provo for a couple of days – sitting on an ITIL v3 Foundation course.
The main reason – it’s a cheap and convenient way to sit the exam..
I can’t sit the electronic exam at Prometric in Utah until the New Year. If I was in London I could do it today. Strange how electronically delivered tests take so long to roll out.
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