Monthly Archives: March 2007

ICANN rejects rude TLD again!

Posted on March 30, 2007 by paulroberts69

I see that ICANN have again rejected a proposal for a .XXX top-level domain. This has been going on for years, and I hear people with kids banging on about how good it would be if all porn sites were … Continue reading →

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XML, Perl, MRTG, wibble wibble wibble

Posted on March 28, 2007 by paulroberts69

Busy day today, feels like my brain is going to melt!   Had to start using XML in anger today, the Address Allocator portion of VitalQIP 7 uses it in a big way for the CLI’s, so I wanted to write … Continue reading →

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Sybase Central weirdisms

Posted on March 26, 2007 by paulroberts69

What’s going on with Sybase Central in Sybase 15? I have just spent the last hour setting up my log devices only to find that Sybase Central has only been "altering" the database to use 1/4 of each log device, e.g. if I … Continue reading →

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Sybase localisation problem

Posted on March 26, 2007 by paulroberts69

After all these years, Sybase 15 still seems to suffer from some localisation issues. Today I have installed Sybase 15 on a Red Hat 4 box and changed the language to UTF-8 using the the Sybase "sqlloc" utility. After running … Continue reading →

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The Strolling Bones play IoW!!!

Posted on March 24, 2007 by paulroberts69

Woo-hoo! Found out yesterday that the Rolling Stones are headling the IoW Festival on Sunday 10th June! As Lenny and I have tickets, this is great news and I am really looking forward to it. Not only are the stones … Continue reading →

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GTOUK web site down again

Posted on March 20, 2007 by paulroberts69

Well it seems the web site I run (www.gtouk.org.uk) is down again. This is depressing, the hosting company we use (Bargain Hosts) are so unreliable, but to move to another host will involve a load of work and hassle. As I … Continue reading →

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Pensions nightmare

Posted on March 19, 2007 by paulroberts69

I’ve spent the last week reviewing my pension arrangements, and it has turned into a bit of a minefield. It seems that while my pension hasn’t been performing as well as some others, I have managed to build up quite … Continue reading →

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Analysis of root server attack

Posted on March 10, 2007 by paulroberts69

February 6th there was another attack on the DNS root servers. This was similar to the big attack that occurred in October 2002 but had much less of an impact due to anycast technology that has since been deployed. There’s … Continue reading →

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Star Wars celebration

Posted on March 9, 2007 by paulroberts69

Now THIS really appeals to my nerd-ish tendencies! Just gonna see if one of my fellow nerds will join me! 🙂   http://www.seetickets.com/see/popup_frame.asp?site=starwars

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It’s a fair cop!

Posted on March 9, 2007 by paulroberts69

Well I’m buggered, I actually managed to get tickets for The Police’s London gig on 8th September. It sold out in an hour! But I was in such a tizz that I forgot we are going to be on our Machu Picchu … Continue reading →

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