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Phew:

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Steve

TREE BLOCKING CANAL @ BRIDGE 29 Nr GNOSALL Thursday 9 May 2013 – Friday 10 May 2013UPDATE (10 May 2013): Contractors have attended site and with the assistance from the Canal & River Trust Team have cleared the tree and … Continue reading →

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Just one reason why using one company for ALL your connectivity (Internet TV and…

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Steve

Just one reason why using one company for ALL your connectivity (Internet TV and Phone) is a bad idea.  Luckily I only use Virgin for my TV. View this post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog for WordPress.

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Well I spent most of today doing nothing

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Steve

Well nothing of any great consequence anyway. I found some old tapes and on one of them was a recording of "Call My Bluff" from the cabaret at Chronoclasm way back in 1990. I also found one of the few … Continue reading →

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And they’re back

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Steve

I guess the fail2ban firewall rules aged out as the same suspects are back trying to use my server to send spam: Relay access denied; from=<test@live.com> to=<therichsheickc@yahoo.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.2.33]> Comcast and RoadRunner obviously don't give a shit that their systems … Continue reading →

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We took Crystal up to my parents for the Easter weekend, primarily to give her a…

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Steve

This is MY Chaiir We took Crystal up to my parents for the Easter weekend, primarily to give her a break from the hassling she gets from Chester. As you can see she settled in very quickly and decided that … Continue reading →

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I’ve been very happy with Ubuntu for quite some time – moving through its various…

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Steve

I've been very happy with Ubuntu for quite some time – moving through its various versions before settling on Xubuntu for my laptop because I loath Unity and Gnome was getting as bad, and Kubuntu seemed to have apps crashing … Continue reading →

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No wonder there was a large lump in the bedding

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Steve

Comfy Cat No wonder there was a large lump in the bedding View this post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog for WordPress.

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Forked-Daapd not quite as stable as it should be

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Steve

Two of the Android Apps (DAAP and SharePlay) are quite able to crash it. Luckily I can just ssh onto the server and restart it and with the db_rebuild level set to 2 it only takes a few minutes (as … Continue reading →

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Forked-Daapd Success!  Well its now working I think – 4 levels of DB rebuild from…

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Steve

Forked-Daapd Success!  Well its now working I think – 4 levels of DB rebuild from completely rebuild every time to do absolutely nothing every time (handy for totally static collections). Right now I'm doing a complete DB rebuild as I've messed … Continue reading →

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Well I thought it had paid off

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Steve

it hasn't. I  can have the DB do a complete rebuild at start or just do a rescan but the other options for the moment don't work. This is because its dispatching processes and so my flag variables are getting … Continue reading →

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