Can anybody tell me why it is that when a member of the family gets home, they're desperate to get into the house to go to the loo, but when we get home the cat is desperate to get out of the house, probably for the same purpose? ....
I try not to "mix my interests" too much, (full story on other web site) but many of you will be aware of the fight that's going on in Melksham to help save our train service from reduction from an already 5 trains each way per day to just 2. Not only would such a reduction effect a over a third o ....
I've been writing about the Presentation, Business and Persistence tiers (and within each of them the MVC or Model, View, Controller or MVC structure) for a JBoss presentation I'm doing this week - but I scarcely expected to find myself putting them to good if unusual use this evening when sorting o ....
If you're just logging in to a single computer then it's sensible to have your user account and password defined on that computer - but what if you're a bit of a bigger organisation and you may need to have the same login at several places? Sun's NIS (Network Information Service) solved this iss ....
No "Horse's Mouth" yesterday nor this morning - Lisa and I have been up to visit a potential supplier of everything from bollard lights to tables chairs and reception desks for Well House Manor; delighted with what we saw and more posts to follow on the subject, no doubt. On the way, though, we to ....
Spring is here at last - and early morning is a great time to look at the countryside. On Wednesday morning, I woke to the sound of the dawn chorus - just the birds, no traffic, And these are the scenes from the window at Chris and Delene's house just a few miles from the city of Bristol.
It's som ....
Q: If you're the administrator on a Linux or Unix system and you want to help a user look after some of the files and directories, or run applications, under their own account, what's the best login to use?
A: You should be logged in as if you were the user him/herself
Q: Why?
A: Because you want ....
We're delighted to welcome crawlers such as Yahoo, Inktomi, Google and MSN spiders through our web site to index content - it's in our mutual interest. Those crawlers are all well written to analyse the pages that they collect, note patterns, and tailor their activities to make the best use of a dyn ....
Spring is in the air, the days are getting longer and there are some great photos around! On Sunday afternoon, down in Bath, I was snapping away and I've added a few more local area pages to the Wiki - see the Royal Crescent and Farleigh Hungerford Castle for example.
Some scenes just don't fit i ....