The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / October 23, 2008 / John / 1
I know this SHOULDN’T be awesome, but IT ACTUALLY IS. When the BBC post an article entitled something like “Pirates Threaten Christmas Shopping”, it gets an automatic eyeroll for me, half expecting it to be a rant comparing unauthorised copying of music/moves/whatever to pillage and murder on the high seas. Clearly, the irony is lost
Ramblings / October 22, 2008 / John / 0
I’ve just realised I haven’t written anything on here since the 13th of October. That’s not very good, really. Having said that, saying nothing is probably better than posting every day but having nothing to say. Anyhoo, as it happens, I DO have something to say today and this is it: KDE 4.1 is really
Ramblings / October 9, 2008 / John / 0
Okay, so as part of my amazing scheme to take a very old netapp, built around Oracle and PL/SQL and running on ancient end-of-life unsupportable SPARC hardware, and port it to low cost Linux boxen, I’ve finally gotten round to attempting to shoehorn Oracle9i and OAS onto our preferred linux – CentOS 4.6. CentOS 4.6
Ramblings / October 8, 2008 / John / 0
“THE government is to invest £50bn of your money in British banks so they can lend it back to you with interest.The historic move is being hailed as a lifeline for the financial system as long as nobody asks too many questions. Julian Cook, chief economist at Corbett and Barker, said: “The government will give
Ramblings / October 4, 2008 / John / 4
BT are about to embark on a trial of software which spies on your web browsing. They claim it’s for your own good. More Info.
ACE Lyrics / October 2, 2008 / John / 0
Alone in the clouds all blue Lying on an eiderdown Yippee! You can’t see me But I can you Pink Floyd w/ Syd Barrett – Flaming
Geekery / September 29, 2008 / John / 0
Ok, so we all know there’s The Oracle Way and The Wrong Way (at least according to Oracle DBAs who aren’t me). Well, today I had to renew the SSL cert for an iAS installation. This isn’t something that would make me think twice – I’ve been dealing with SSL setups since 1996, or thereabouts,
ACE Lyrics / September 25, 2008 / John / 0
Since I was no bigger than a weevil they’ve told me I was evil that if bad was a boot then I’d fit it. I’ve been a wicked little lady but I’ve been trying hard lately ah, f**k it I’m a monster I admit it. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Curse of
Geekery / September 24, 2008 / John / 4
I’ve just had a server returned by a client. Apparently it keeps overheating and dying. It’s a 1u box and they swear blind they’ve left a ventilation gap and have aircon in the server room. So, I popped the lid and had a look. Â The first thing that struck me was the amount of muck,