Umm, yes, OK, so 2009 wasn't a great year for me posting (though it was a pretty great - and busy - year otherwise). I even managed not to get round to posting a Merry Christmas message until after Christmas. I did, however, make the usual donation to Shelter in lieu of sending out cards again, and I do hope you all had (or are still having) a ( Read more... )

( Rose count: 3 )

So, since everyone on Debian/Ubuntu systems should be busily redoing their ssh keys today, I thought I'd write a post about ssh keys. (Some parts of this post will be ubuntu specific, but keys can be used with Putty too under Windows, where Pageant, which comes with Putty, takes the role of ssh-agent. There's no pam-ssh equivalent that I know of ( Read more... )

I saw this story: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/03/28/0326209.shtml which says that 28.8% of Vista crashes were caused by NVidia's drivers. Now, I've developed drivers for both windows and linux before, both as part of my day job. Neither time was writing device ( Read more... )

I have a new house. It is in dire need of painting, but I shall be working on that over the coming weeks. (Well, it's painted, it's just that it's got stuff like dark blue walls ( Read more... )

Many applications from KDE support a scripting interface called dcop. Today I found this especially useful. I have been using CppUnit to write test cases for my code, and using its QtRunner front end to run them. However, if a test fails, it would be really nice if you could click on it and have the source file open at the right point ( Read more... )

( everybody else is doing it... )

I wanted to like Nevow, I've spent quite a long time trying to learn how to use it, but even once I'd downloaded the latest svn version, the tutorial code still wouldn't run. I'm now annoyed that it's wasted my time, so I'll just go back to implementing my own webserver in C++. (I had looked around at other python things, but since none of them ( Read more... )

Before I get ranting, Nevow is capable of some very cool stuff. Some of the examples do some pretty cool things. Also, I've been on IRC, where I found jcalderone to be very helpful with the questions I've had ( Read more... )

Just to add a pic of my own back garden to the many windy England pics around at the moment...

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