Archive for November, 2009

My root file system doesn’t show up in “df” anymore!

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Earlier tonight I had a strange bug report from a customer. Ever since I’d moved his VPS from one host to another, he’d stopped being able to see how much disk space he had free.
At first I thought it was simply because when I had moved his VPS I had taken the opportunity to [...]

Recently updated gnutls then found you can’t connect to LDAP?

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

If you recently installed this update:

gnutls26 (2.4.2-6+lenny2) stable-security; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team.
* Fixed CVE-2009-2730: a vulnerability related to NUL bytes in
X.509 certificate name fields. (Closes: #541439)
GNUTLS-SA-2009-4

— Giuseppe Iuculano <iuculano@debian.org> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:29:06
+0100

and then found that your applications [...]

The Bedfont Triangle

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Since moving in to this flat about 6 weeks ago, the following items have broken or started to behave oddly:

Humax PVR started displaying everything in a shade of pink when set to RGB output (like it always has been).
One of my LCD panels had its display totally corrupted with a strange tartan effect for about [...]

Wanted: UK TV listings application

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Dear Lazyweb, do you know of a particularly good online TV listings site or application?
We don’t watch a lot of TV, but from time to time there’s some good stuff. I prefer to sit down once a week and look through what is on, save it to a list and then program it in [...]

Wanted: photo management software for Linux

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Dear Lazyweb, what do you use for managing your photo collections locally?
At the moment I just dump them all in a directory on the file server, with Jenny’s photos in another. I used to use F-spot, which was okay, but then I wanted to store Jenny’s photos separately from my own and there doesn’t [...]