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The Rackspace Cloud – My Instance Uptime
uptime 00:09:19 up 241 days, 21:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Nice to see that the infrastructure Rackspace is running is solid enough to give 241 days of uptime. I wish I could have a tour of the data centre and have a look at how it's done...
It’s not all about you. Yes it is, I’m a narcissist
The title is just a random sound-bite I picked up while channel surfing... Her: It's not all about you. Him: Yes it is, I'm a narcissist. I can't even give you a hint on it's providence... I think maybe ABC or SBS...
Scribus 1.4.1 on Windows 7 x64
I didn't know if you needed x32 bit ghostscript even though it was running on a x64 OS. I'm here to report that it works with the 64 bit version of GhostScript. I just went into File ==> Preferences... ==> External Tools and entered the path "C:\Program...
Out of Office Reply – Microsoft Exchange 2003 (SBS 2003)
Recently in anticipation of upgrading to Small Business Server 2011 I installed all the service packs and patches to make my SBS2003 Server upgrade ready. I must have installed an Exchange Service pack because the external out of office replys stopped working. Either...
Use kid3 to edit WMA tags
If you have a bunch of WMA files that don't have the correct meta-data associated with them and therefore don't show up correctly in Rhthymbox. To edit the tags kid3 does the job well. In Fedora just: yum install kid3 done.
A WORKING MYSQL QUERY SELF TABLE JOIN
I have a table holding the names of `items` to be loaned out mysql> select * from items; +----+-------+ | id | name | +----+-------+ | 1 | item1 | | 2 | item2 | | 3 | item3 | | 4 | item4 | | 5 | item5 | +----+-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) I have another...
