Not as warm as I expected it to be, and windy as well.

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I’ve installed it over at BeClan and will shortly be doing likewise here. It’s a significant upgrade - well done to all on the WP team!
The best feature I’ve found I have mixed feelings about. Akismet is a very neat distributed anti-spam filter, but it requires creating an account at wordpress.com to get a code! [...]

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Cyrus sasl has been a godsend. I’ve been using it for a few years now and it really does provide much needed functionality. I’ve also been cursing it for the last few years! It has one very large and somewhat glaring omission - an inability to handle crypt’d passwords from a database. I’m not about [...]

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It started a few days ago when several channles started being intermittent. They’d suffer from all the usual problems of a poor digital signal, then just stop and pronounce that ‘No satellite signal is being received’. Gradually the number of channels affected has grown to the point it’s a number in double digits. It’s not [...]

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Silly ideas provoke silly responses. Of course, sometimes they are funny! http://www.venganza.org/

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It’s rare for me to be ill. I’m lucky in that I normally just muddle along and avoid all the nasty bugs and stuff that others seem to catch. I think the amount of time I spend at the gym is a factor, but eating sensibly is another for sure. When I ended up in [...]

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I’ve been playing with remote debugging (via firewire) over the last few weeks, and a few days ago I uncommented a line from /etc/ttys that allowed me to login from the remote debugger. Didn’t think too much of it until I got home and started my desktop. It ran through the boot sequence then just [...]

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I’ve acquired some sound files in aac format but woudl like them in mp3 so that various apps will play them! I realise most apps should be able to handle aac, but some don’t Anyone care to comment on the best way to convert them on FreeBSD?

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Some things strike me as just plain wrong - sitting here waiting for my desktop machine to panic is one such thing! The firewire debugging link is actually very straightforward and works really well, so while my desktop runs Gnome the laptop connected to it is running a plain old terminal and showing all the [...]

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