Blog By Farrow…
Technical blog items
Lots of people ask me how do I change the Up2date program on either redhat or Fedora? So basically you edit the file called sources which is in /etc/sysconfig/rhn There is a list of local sites for the UK which carry mirrors but the one I use is zeniiia Just add the entries in the file above like so…. yum… Continue reading Up2Date – changing it so that it picks up from a local mirror site
Right have now added a static page called About Me on the site. It was quite easy to do and just followed the instructions from the additional controls by Bill Nalen. I will go through the steps below …. As Bill says there are three changes that need to be made. Create a new control, I called mine AboutMe.ascx. This file… Continue reading Added About Me Static Page to the blog
Ran the up2date on one of my Fedora 2 hosting machines and saw that samba has a new release 3.0.6. Upgraded without any problem and also the throughput from the windows machines to this little box seemed to be faster or it could just be me imagining it. I did have an odd problem where from time to time the… Continue reading Samba 3.0.6
Right changed the background color on the contact and feedback boxes. Light grey now, what do people think?? Better than the white. Becoming quite a css wizz… One thing I would like is to limit the pictures in the post and gallerys to a width of 450 but if I set this via css all the images will be 450… Continue reading background on Feedback and contact us
After much playing around I decided not use the Wiki at this point. Its very good and I could see a use for it, if and when I start a new project it would be like a living notepad. My initial thoughts were to have the Wiki as the main home page and the blog off of that but what… Continue reading My Wiki and Subtext
Having just moved the blog from a subdirectory of myblog to the root of the site I have realised that I am on the wrong time zone again. Just need to fix that up in the web.config old config was -5 and just altered it to 0 for good old GMT. This now means that this entry will be before the… Continue reading Time of the postings
My colocated servers seem to have stopped responding, rang the datacenter Dedipower and they looked into it. There response was ————————————————————————- added by gary at Tuesday 31st of August 2004 04:58:32 PM: Hi Paul, It appeared that there was no activity on the NIC within your server. We replaced the netowrk cable with a new one and it appears everything… Continue reading Colocated Servers are down
Got the wiki eventually up and running although I still cant amend the home page at this instance. Basically I kept getting object reference not set then I realised that in my _ContentBaseDefinition.wiki file I still had ‘YourNameSpace’ in the file rather than replacing it with the actual namespace name ie. MyWiki did that and it all came up.
Right this is my first entry in the blog, should have been doing my VAT return but wanted to see if I could get this going. So nearly here, have added a few pictures of my server which I am selling if your interested.