Archive for October, 2007

I had reported on a C API program that periodically crashed a large Domino server. Unfortunately the program has been doing so on and off for a few months now, although the DCF has been considerably lower.
I spent a couple of hours debugging this again at the insistence of the administrator (he was right in [...]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 at 14:01 | 0 comments
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Just a reminder, that if you are planning on changing a server's IP address, lower its DNS time to live (TTL) well in advance, so that you don't get caching effects which effectively render your machine unreacheable.
Am I right, Simon?

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 11:31 | 2 comments
Categories: DNS
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weisste was mich aufregt? diese ganzen neuen pseudo-coolen worte, die mit nem R aufhoeren… flickR, razR, zoomR…
ich mach ne community auf… "trippR – share your sexual experience!"
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 11:24 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement
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It would appear that Gmail doubled their disk capacity, at least on some of the accounts. The counter on my account shows

which is almost double of what it was a few days ago.

Sunday, October 21st, 2007 at 11:09 | 0 comments
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Bill writes that BlackBerry 4.2 devices have a built-in RSS feed reader; I found it, although it is well hidden.
Open the BlackBerry browser and enter the URL to the feed:

You then get the RSS feed displayed. Here is my current feed (minus this post obviously).

If you click on an entry and Show description [...]

Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 12:38 | 0 comments
Categories: BlackBerry
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Vista is a Wagner Opera that is usually late to start, takes too long to finish, and is spoilt by floorboards creaking under the weight of the cast.
Kim Brebach.

Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 08:23 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 08:19 | 0 comments
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Spreading source code and configuration files all over the show is a Bad Thing™ which is why I'm setting up a subversion repository. For those who don't know, subversion is a version control system which runs either standalone or under an Apache web server (or for very poor folk, on a file system [...]

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at 13:28 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, Database, Security
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