Welcome to my blog!

 

September 2010
M T W T F S S
« Mar    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930  

Archives

Annoying Windows Update restart popup

I was working away on my PC today and was getting bugged by the Windows Update restart reminder, having been bitten by its restart in the past I wanted it to leave me alone.

I had stacks of SSH sessions open, web sites and files, it was not the time for a reboot and I didn’t want [...]

Building RPMs

Here is some advice I found useful when setting up my RPM build environment, and building a basic RPM.  The main source I used, to save reading my book again or the man pages, was Linc Fessenden’s blog and some of Linc’s blog is repeated here for completeness. Thanks Linc!

These instructions should work fine on any CentOS [...]

Video Test!

Here is a test video file, best viewed full screen. This will show you how you can check which release of CentOS your running.

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

var s0 = new SWFObject(“http://www.jervis.ws/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer/player.swf”,”n0″,”400″,”280″,”7″);
s0.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addParam(“allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s0.addParam(“wmode”,”opaque”);
s0.addVariable(“id”,”n0″);
s0.addVariable(“controlbar”,”bottom”);
s0.addVariable(“height”,”280″);
s0.addVariable(“playlist”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(“width”,”400″);
s0.addVariable(“autostart”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“bufferlength”,”1″);
s0.addVariable(“displayclick”,”play”);
s0.addVariable(“icons”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“linktarget”,”_blank”);
s0.addVariable(“mute”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“quality”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“repeat”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(“resizing”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(“shuffle”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(“stretching”,”uniform”);
s0.addVariable(“volume”,”90″);
s0.addVariable(“aboutlink”,”http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/”);
s0.addVariable(“file”,”http://www.jervis.ws//release.flv”);
s0.write(“video0″);

Server Upgrade

Having just upgraded the server, JERVIS DOT WS will be back soon!

DNETC System V init Script

This week I was looking into init scripts again, its been a while… Anyhow, I remembered that I had written one for distributed.net’s client app.

I thought I would share it, place in “/etc/init.d/dnetc”. It should work fine on current releases of Fedora, RHEL and CentOS. Its designed for the sysadmin to configure dnetc for that [...]

Looking forward to Fedora 12!

Fedora 12 release countdown!

Wordpress Upgrade 2.7 and 2.7.1

Going back to late last year, I upgraded WordPress to 2.7. It all went will apart from some issues with the TinyMCE visual editor. I read a number of articles including Troubleshooting TinyMCE in WordPress 2.7 and http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224121 with no luck. With no plugins and the default theme, i could not get my editor to [...]

Firefox SSH protocol handler (Linux)

I have a web page that lists servers I need to connect to. This page has several hyper links for each server to key webpages on that host. I wanted to be able to connect using ssh too, at the click of a link. (eg: ssh://myserver.example.com and ssh://user@myserver.example.com)

I started doing a bit of research into [...]

Fedora 10 boot graphics

Fedora 10 has a nice new boot screen. However, I found that I could only see a basic text loading bar at the bottom of the screen. This is due to graphics card support and from what I have read there will be many more cards supported in F11.

If you can’t wait that long, you [...]

Happy New Year!

Well, better late than never. I thought I would take this chance to set myself some ‘open’ goals for the New Year.

First off I hope to get involved in more FOSS advocacy projects, there are a few about which I hope I can contribute too. As part of this, I am going to get involved [...]