Man-eating badgers?
UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.
How strange. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm
Spam and firewall server upgrade
More memory for the firewall and spam server – it’s been getting hammered recently – over 1000 spam emails per day.
Hopefully this means email for Grandpop, Rachael and everyone in Utah will be working better.
(Just a clarification – it’s just the family in Utah who gets mail through this box – not the whole of Utah..)
Hardware retirement..
It’s always sad when old hardware dies.
Time to kill off the last old Compaq box:
A bomb proof Compaq Proliant 800. Running as a backup server for six years now.
I’m on the lookout for a replacement – anyone from Dell, IBM or HP offering some eval kit?
Vista, HP and drivers for a HP Photosmart 7150
At last HP have released basic drivers for the HP Photosmart 7150 for Vista.
They describe these as “basic” – I’ll report progress later.
This download includes a Print Driver only. This driver makes it possible to use the basic functions for the printer. HP will not be providing a Full Featured Software and Driver for this product; therefore, some functionality may be lost when you use this product with Windows Vista.
Driver is available via www.hp.com – the direct link is here.
Collanos 1.1 update
Back to Collanos 1.1 – and the good news is that most of the bugs seem to be ironed out.
I’m now sharing several GB with my team; performance is good if tweaked.
Mini Metro abuse – it’s all for charidy
My friend Laurence Pitt (and one of his friends) are driving this delightful Mini Metro from London to Prague. Via the Alps.
It’s all for “Charidy Mate” – so go give a few pounds – http://www.justgiving.com/beryl2prague
Building panoramic pictures
I’ve been asked a few times which tools I use to build the panoramic pictures.
I use Hugin with autopano-sift for control point generation. I also use enblend for smooth blending.
There is a great manual online now at the Hugin Wiki – http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin
ZENworks Configuration Management – open beta
I spent some time this morning on the forums for the ZCM open beta.
A frequent comment is regarding downloading the ZCM ISO – it’s 4GB in size.
I recommend testing the md5 hash – I use Digest IT 2004.
3M Privacy Filters
I wrote last year about the 3M Privacy Filters; I’ve not worked with my laptop and confidential data on a flight in over three years.
I recently purchased the filters for my team; I must say I am impressed. They are unobtrusive – and really work.
PGP and my brick of a laptop
Somehow my PGP passphrase got corrupted; there’s no way back.
PGP support tried – but my brick of a laptop needs a rebuild.
I was disappointed at how seemingly fragile the passphrase piece is; the support guy at PGP said he’d never seen it before.
Hmm.
Back to a new build; if it happens again I’ll be somewhat upset..
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