Broken pingbacks – what’s to blame?
For up to three years pingbacks on my blog have been broken. After finally noticing I track down the problem and find a fix.
Category: Computing
Automating tarsnap backups
How to create a backup schedule for tarsnap, and how to test it without using up your allowance.
Machine backups using tarsnap
A look at backup options for my server and why I decided to go with tarsnap.
Extracting album art from iTunes
iTunes does a good job of fetching album artwork, but how can I extract them for using in SqueezeCenter?
Exhange 2007 OOF (Out Of Office) and Free/Busy Availability, fixed
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks on and off trying to figure out why the OOF (Out Of Office) and Free/Busy availability information were broken in our Outlook 2007 clients. It turned out to be the fault of a dodgy Exchange update.
FreeBSD filesystem snapshots
Being able to take snapshots of a filesystem is very handy for backups, but does it actually work on FreeBSD?
Current Cost Electricity Meter
A look at the Current Cost electricity meter and how to produce pretty graphs from it.
A new router (Soekris, Draytek and NanoBSD)
A look at how I replaced my ageing router and ADSL modem with a Soekris net5501 running FreeBSD.
Dovecot is a neat piece of software
For many years now (since before I started working at the University) we’ve been using University of Washington’s IMAP and POP daemons. They worked well, and (through an old bit of unsupported code) also allowed our MH users to access their email. As time went on people wanted to do more than UW’s software could offer. Things like nested folders, …