Archive for April, 2007

haproxy bafflement

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Update 2007-05-05: I sent some strace output to the author of haproxy, Willy Tarreau, and he replied within 24 hours with a full annotation of the strace and a one line patch to fix this issue. That’s what I call support! Here’s his comments and the patch:
I think this is caused by the […]

FirstDirect stupidity

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Email from First Direct:

Thank you for your recent request to join first direct.
Full details about a first direct e-ISA, along with an application form containing the information you have provided, are now on their way to you.
[…]
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SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT!

This is after filling in some 4 page online form. Really need […]

If you can find them, you can call the A-Team

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Andrew, if you still haven’t had a reply (and in general if anyone is getting nowhere with a technical problem related to lug.org.uk services) then drop a line to admin AT lug.org.uk and we lug.org.uk admins will look into it.

Apple community eats one of its own

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Check out “Apple Matters | And They Said the Mac Was Intuitive” and especially its comments.
(via popey)

You need xargs replacement to do it that way..

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

sheepeatingtaz, Omahn’s method seems fine for a one-off. The problem with resiak’s suggestion is that you need text after the data that xargs would put in. One way to do it would be:

$ cd ~/fonts
$ find . -type f -iname ‘*.ttf’ -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 cp {} ~/.fonts/

The -I flag tells it […]

Great galah

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Work folks were all outside The Salisbury last night to give Jasper a good send-off when this strange Australian girl attached herself to our crowd. There’s been a lot of turnover of staff recently so at first I just thought she was someone new from the office, but her bizarre behaviour soon put that […]