Year: 2014

  • Resetting USB devices

    I’m not sure if it is just a bad motherboard, cable, USB device or just bad luck, but when I reboot the computer the UPS doesn’t appear. It’s not even seen in lsusb and of course that makes nut-server fail which makes nut-client complain that it cannot work out the UPS status.The solution was to…

  • Google doesn't get SPF

    Someone has decided to use my email address for a spam source. They have even used google to relay it which, given Googles current policies seems like a winning idea. I keep getting emails from Google’s servers with header lines like …

  • jffnms 0.9.4

    JFFNMS version 0.9.4 was released today, this version fixes some bugs that have recently appeared in previous versions. The triggers rules editor had a problem where some of the rules clicked off the triggers would not appear or could not be edited correctly. Most of the Admin screens have the ability to sort the rows.…

  • WordPress 3.8 for Debian

    Well if you can read this then you know it’s working.  After way too many weeks, Debian will have WordPress version 3.8.  Thanks to Raphaël for his kind assistance and answering my questions about how it was built.  The upload is still gurgling along and will make it there in its own time. He said…

  • Trying out Prosody for XMPP

    After reading François’ article about running your own XMPP server, I thought I’d give it a go myself. A comment from Steven suggested that prosody would be a better and simpler alternative so I went with that. It is actually really simple with about 5 lines to add to the config, as well as firewall…