Month: August 2009

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Owner Builder Exam Passed!

Just passed my Owner-builder exam online at http://www.ozob.com.au. Now I have to go to the office of fair trading and get an Owner-builders certificate. I am so not good at digesting regulations and understanding what needs doing. Funny how some things you do, other...

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Ubuntu 9.04 Intel Video Fix

Since installing Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 I have had a problem with my Intel embedded graphics card not being able to play video. Mplayer Error Message: "X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)" Discover your Video Chipset: lspci -nn | grep VGA My Video...

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Website Design for Small Business

My sister is running a web design business. The reason I'm doing a post is that she is using Joomla as the CMS and leveraging many OSS plugins. It's amazing how good Opensource Software has become in the last year or so. Professional results for minimal outlay and no...

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Simple Squid Proxy Check

Squid outage fail-over If you run wccp through a Cisco router and your Squid Cache falls over the router will fail over to serving pages directly. Seamless fail-over is good but So you may never notice that your Squid proxy has stopped responding. So you lose the...

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99% and 99.9% uptime are a long way apart

If I was supplying you IT services and I said to you. "Your system will be available 99% of the time!" You may be tempted to think. Wow 99% is great. But lets do the maths. 361.4 / 365 x 100 = 99.0% So despite being up for 361.4 days a year you can have a 3 days and...

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