Up2Date – changing it so that it picks up from a local mirror site

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

Samba 3.0.6

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

A Lazy Day

Thought it was time for some pics on here so this is what my cat thinks about the site. Taken with the camera on my mobile phone.

My Wiki and Subtext

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

CodeSquared.com

Now a friend of mine has just changed his email to codesquared.com, now is there something I am missing here.  Is this a buzz word or something of the latest jargon and not being up with the latest trends dont realise the meaning of this. If you know then let me know !!!

Time of the postings

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