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Extreme Towing

30. April 2007

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With the rapid approach of middle age pulsing through my veins this weekend I attended a Camping and Caravanning Club manoeuvring course in Cheltenham. Apparently one needs to book well in advance to go on one (thanks Ackers) and after attending I can see why; it was excellent. I went because this coming Friday I collect [...]

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Soon to be smug Mac user?

26. April 2007

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My financial year ends in 4 days, we are in profit so I figured that now was as good a time as any to buy a new computer. After a year or two of indecision I’ve finally taken the plunge and bought a Mac for use as my primary workstation. Should be interesting.

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Gardening from scratch, almost

24. April 2007

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I like Casey’s seed germination shortcut here. From that I get the impression that they, like us, have been willing lots of little dots in mud to become green living things. I never realised what a stressful time it could be worrying about carrots, parsnips & onions etc. and that’s even before they are in the [...]

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T.W.A.T.

23. April 2007

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“Tamar Watersports Appreciation Team” coined yesterday by Matthew French as a name for our twice yearly windsurfing/poker weekends at the “Outdoor Adventure. Multi-Activity and Surf Centre, Widemouth Bay, Bude, Cornwall” (we go windsurfing on Tamar lake). As a 12 strong group it was the largest since I’ve been going with quite a few new faces [...]

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Updated: PHP Debian development server how-to

16. April 2007

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With the recent release of Debian Etch to stable I’ve updated my aged Building a PHP development server article. In it I finally admit that Apache 2 exists plus I fix an embarrassingly large amount of typos. Hopefully it will be useful to someone.

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Simple hack to get PHP to install on Etch with Apache 2

16. April 2007

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I was stuck for a few mins just now when trying to do a ‘make install’ for php 5.2.1. I was getting the following error: apxs:Error: Activation failed for custom /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file.. apxs:Error: At least one `LoadModule' directive already has to exist.. make: *** [install-sapi] Error 1 As you can see the assumption is that Apache’s httpd.conf contains at least [...]

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Killing a list of processes

16. April 2007

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I’m fighting with a MySQL server at the moment. It’s freshly compiled from source and I’ve followed all of my tried and tested instructions but it won’t start up properly and leaves a load of process hanging around that need killing before I can try starting it again. pkill wasn’t cutting it so I quickly put [...]

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Advanced I Spy

10. April 2007

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I had a lovely time away with my family this weekend over the Easter break. We stayed at a privately owned (and rented by us direct) static caravan on a Haven Holidays park in North Wales near Criccieth. We easily avoided all of the supplied “entertainment” and restaurants on-site and just used the place as [...]

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A warm welcome

10. April 2007

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Just a quick note to give a big thanks to the Ozficici’s who put me up one night last week during my 3 days away in London attending various meetings. They made me feel very welcome and Kurt ‘knocked up’ one of his amazing meals which was a lovely spicy thai affair. Thanks again Kurt, Mandy, [...]

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