Phew:

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 the canal is now fully navigable.The Canal & River Trust apologise for any inconvenience caused […]

Well I spent most of today doing nothing

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 Phonoclasm I tapes (recorded at Iconoclasm in Leeds in 1989). Somewhere I do have the […]

And they’re back

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 are spewing spam as I've emailed them several times about this but they have apparently […]

Forked-Daapd not quite as stable as it should be

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 it adds the directories for file monitoring) for it to start up compared to several […]

Well I thought it had paid off

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 picked up as being set by the dispatched processes when they really shouldn't be. I've […]