There is a bug in the f-spot facebook extension included with Ubuntu Gutsy and Intrepid (F-Spot crashes during authorization exporting to Facebook if friend IDs are large). Didn’t want to wait until Jaunty to upload pictures to Facebook, so I’ve compiled FacebookExport.dll using the upstream patch and copied it over /usr/lib/f-spot/extensions/FacebookExport.dll (making a backup of course!). Works for me, but no gaurentees.
ntpd
ntpd is now working on mallard (so the clock is nolonger 3min slow). Apparently
restrict -4 default ignore
was to strict to actually synchronise with other servers, but
restrict -4 default noquery nomodify nopeer notrap
seems to work.
Results (at last)
It seems to be the done thing to comment on your results here, so I’ll give a brief overview of mine.
Analogue and Digital Filters, etc, I was quite happy with, though confused as to why about three courses are lumped into one line. Advanced Digital synthesis- well aparently a B- plus a B- plus an […]
Pretending to be an IMAP server using netcat
So, say you want to pretend to be an imap server using nc (can’t think of any good reason why you’d want to do this, we were trying to seriously confuse an iphone). So, you do something like:
cat - | nc -l -p 143 -v
And when the line
connect to [127.0.0.1] from localhost [127.0.0.1] 39656
appears you […]
gnome-screensaver
Spent a couple of hours trying to fix the screen saver on my laptop. The unlock dialog box refused to appear, so you had to press ctrl-alt-F1, login to the console and killall gnome-screensaver to get back to the desktop.
This FAQ gave me a few hints. I found I was getting errors like:
Unable […]
Mallard moves again
This morning mallard moved the 30 miles or so (back) to Redbus Sovereign House from Rapidswitch’s Maidenhead data centre with only about 15 minutes of down time. Not bad considering Google thinks the journey alone should have taken 1hr 10min.
Timetables
Our timetables have appeared.
Debian Etch
I upgraded the server that hosts this site from Sarge to Etch yesterday. I then paniced when I typed ‘ps aux’ and saw the line
102 7353 0.0 2.3 11632 3040 ? Ss Sep10 […]
pam-pgsql
Whilst pam_pgsql logins will work with crypted passwords in your db without the line “pw_type = crypt”, passwd (the password changing utility) won’t. With the line, passwd does.
nss-pgsql
Of no real interest to any of you. I have had great difficulty in getting pam_pgsql/nss-pgsql to work properly. One of my problems involved bash hanging if you tried
$su dbtest
where dbtest is a user in the postgresql database.
The problem seems to be to do with pthread locking. libpq wants to access […]