Archive for March 23rd, 2007

TTOTD: Ubuntu needs nfs-common to do NFS locking

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

If your NFS mounts seem to take ages to, er, mount, and OpenOffice always opens things read-only, then maybe you forgot to install nfs-common and thus have no NFS locking support.
Or you could go to NFSv4 (mentalist).
Or disable locking in OOo (mentalist).

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All thine castles are within our possession

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

(Click for an image that’s actually readable)

Found by taras

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The seedy side of the NHS

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

As you may be aware, I was quite ill the other week and ended up spending a night in hospital. Anyway, I’m fine now, but had a follow-up doctor’s appointment today.
One of the things I wanted from the doctor was a sick note for the two days I had off work last week due […]

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