Well, it now just about works as I want it to Unfortunately after installing ImageMagick (to get this screenshot) it’s now slightly flakey on startup, so I might have to rebuild one or two things to get it stable again Hopefully all will sort itself out in due time (normally does).

It’s fluxbox, [...]

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So, the new install of FreeBSD is working quite nicely and the extra disk space means I’m not so worried about installing things. I’ve now got Fluxbox 0.9.10 (x11-wm/fluxbox-devel) as well as some of the supporting things. Configuring it took a little while as it’s not always apparent what you need to do to get [...]

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Over teh last few days I’ve come to teh conclusion that moving my primary OS for my laptop from Windows to FreeBSD. I’ve contemplated it a few times, but have never quite felt ready to take the plunge. The last couple of weeks of playing with various X Windows setups on FreeBSD 5.3 have changed [...]

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Regardless of wht you may think of Apple and it’s OS, they do manage to get some things right. Their use of multicast DNS and its’ widespread support points to the future. Sitting at a tbale at ApacheCon I watched while the apple users (far, far fewer than last year it has to be said) [...]

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So, ApacheCon 2004 is over. This year I managed to get a lot of work done (too much in fact) while still finding time to enjoy Vegas. Presently I’m in Tucson visiting with Rene for a day or so before heading home again, via Dallas. Getting here was with America West - which after my [...]

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I realise that theft is a serious problem, and that by adjust their packaging to make items larger it makes them harder to conceal and thus steal, but I think it’s timne we took a serious look at packaging. Yesterday I bought a small zip-linq. It’s a very neat retractable USB cable. For travelling it’s [...]

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So, Travelling to Vegas via the same route as last year. Gatwick to Dallas and then onwards to Vegas. The final stage is only 2 hours but it’s with America West, which has proven to be eye-opening in the extreme. I did the same journey last year and it all worked fine. The staff at [...]

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I discovered a bug that I’d managed to introduce into butter that basically meant that the settings weren’t being segregated correctly (inheritance wasn’t correct and in the process of fixing it I’ve managed to also change the syntax slightly again!
Templates are now declared as

Template Blah {…}

The same goes for rules and targets. They can still [...]

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