Blog By Farrow…
Took delivery of my new machine yesterday. Rather swiss, this is my first Mac, they tell me once you taste Mac you never go back !! First thing I needed to do was to get it on my encrypted wireless network ugh oh !! Couldnt for the life of me get it on, I use a manual 128 bit key… Continue reading Taking Delivery Of A MAC Powerbook G4 15 inch
Today is May the 27th and I think the summer has finally arrived here as its about 28 degrees outside, poor Scruffy was seeking some shelter under the table and chairs in the garden it was so hot.
Upgraded my little old Shuttle XPC-SK41G from an AMD Duron 1.3ghz to an XP 2600+ and couldnt get the speed up above 1150mhz after much digging about realised that the FSB is set to 100mhz by a jumper, it is jumper JP2, you need to remove it and the FSB then runs at 133mhz and got a speed of 1536mhz… Continue reading Shuttle XPC-SK41G with XP2600+
Recently try to upgrade the server and firmware on my MP101 and came across the following.. Now I run the server software on a windows 2003 server on a VIA 1.2ghz machine, now its the only windows machine that is on all the time but for some reason I couldnt get the firmware to upgrade to the latest version on… Continue reading MP101 Latest Server running with 2 network cards on Windows 2003
When using the drivers for the Sangoma S518 ADSL card on the VIA EPIA architecture you must install them using the following ./Setup install –arch=i386 otherwise on connecting to the isp you will get a kernel panic and the whole machine will freeze
Kept getting the message ‘Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client’ after upgrading the mysql server to a newer version than the client odbc driver and after much trawling found that you have to update the mysql user table to hold the password in the old format like so.. UPDATE mysql.userSET password=OLD_PASSWORD(‘somepassword’)WHERE user=’someuser’AND host=’somehost’;… Continue reading Unable to connect to newer mysql database – Client Does Not Support Authentication Protocol Requested By Server, Consider Upgrading MySQL Client
Trying to get libpng and libjpeg support ?? You will need to install the developer versions of the libraries, on Fedora the easiest way is to use up2date ie. up2date libjpeg-devel and up2date libpng-devel this will install it then the configure for the makefile of libgd will pick the libraries up and install support for them. Also dont use the… Continue reading GD Lib with Bugzilla
My mate Rick Marden sent me some pictures of the snow at his place, all the snow here has gone but clearly parts of the UK are still suffering.
Was snowing heavily last night and the result can be seen below. Now its still snowing here which means that the UK will be in turmoil as a little bit of snow makes it impossible to get around as us Brits are never prepared. I have dug out (no pun intended) an old photo of the snow from about 3 – 4… Continue reading Its Snowing Again Here In The UK
Had to help the wife find the easter eggs in Duran Duran’s Greatest Hits DVD and boy it was difficult to find them all but will be posting on here what we did, so that you can unlock the different videos and interviews.