Author: joelh

Before today the house here had no phoneline so I had to do a TCO on all available internet options. At first I concentrated on wireless because I assumed that the $30 line rental fee was going to be a killer on my own. There are wireless plans out there that have a fairly decent…

Deals direct occasionally have very good deals. Check out this iPAQ which is missing some parts of the retail pack but definately a very good deal.

Jigsaw.com is a true freakish creation shown only when a society becomes so hellbent on one idea that basic principles, which would normally be the policies by which all other social structures are built around, are abandoned in favour of adhearing to the current trends and ideology. The currency is privacy, and what you trade…

Easily encrypt/decrypt USB keys with TrueCrypt a cross-platform encryption suite.

Digg has for a while now been a staple part of every nerds diet. Amongst all the hype it has taken AJAX, Web 2.0 and community driven websites and actually made something useful and interesting (see Google Trends to see how its grown). Now they have finally added non-nerd categories that are quickly picking up…

Greylisting is a technique to reduce spam that works by giving a temporary failure to new mail hosts and allowing them to deliver once they wait for 10 minutes or so. It works because most spammers are either spambots or other spam programs which tend to not behave anything like a real MTA and will…

The incestant click click click of the stove. I found Nichole staring at the stove and was about to explain its operation to hear before I realised the clicking was the igniter spark going over and over about every second (much slower than it goes if you press the button down). We called Energy Australia…

I’m sure all of us have been in the situation where we’ve had an mp3 and not known the name, or had a collection of mp3s that are tagged poorly and need to be cleaned up. In my case I had hundreds of mp3s that I had recovered from a harddrive that were all named…

From the list of debian apps you must install comes apticron. I don’t know why I never looked for it or how I lived without it. It mails you everyday with new packages you can upgrade on the box.

This is an article about why not to use reiserfs with mythtv and what to do if it goes horribly wrong. So I came home to my media box about a month ago and it was locked up. I shell’d in and poked around and it said the /home partition was full which seemed unlikely…