http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/ 2012-05-20T00:29:37+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/ http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-04-27T09:26:28+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/accuoxford?rev=1335515188&do=diff The Oxford postcode area has more ACCU members than any other single postcode area. It seemed a pity to me that there was no local group, so a select group met for the inaugural meeting on 25/6/08. Meetings are held on Wednesdays, usually (but not exclusively) the last Wednesday of the month. Oxford Computer Consultants generously allow us to use their meeting room. They're located in central Oxford, at 23-38 Hythe Bridge Street OX1 2EP, handy for the rail and bus stations and the Worcester Str… text/html 2009-09-24T10:48:10+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/acer5051awxmi?rev=1253785690&do=diff The motherboard on the old Vaio R600-HEP I've been using for work died at the start of 2007. I needed a new laptop in a hurry; nothing fancy, I use it for some light development work and reading mail while on the road. I dithered briefly over a cheapie Dell or the Acer, and ended up going for the Acer because it didn't look like the Dell offering had a 64bit CPU. There's a chance I might need to be doing some 64bit compilation during the lifetime of the beast. text/html 2011-04-27T07:59:29+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/addingkdecaroots?rev=1303887569&do=diff I've been trying to get kaddressbook working with the company LDAP server. The LDAP server is accessed over SSL using the standard LDAP SSL port 636. All I would get is a dialog saying Could not connect to host ldaps://cn%3d' [rest of URL omitted]. text/html 2007-11-23T11:03:27+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/aix?rev=1195815807&do=diff Work has a large deployment on AIX, so I've had to learn a little about AIX. I keep myself sane by installing a lot of Open Source tools on my AIX boxes. IBM have a good selection of packages available, though they are very conservative about issuing updates so versions are often quite old. text/html 2012-05-14T16:50:47+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/aix_packages?rev=1337010647&do=diff Information on various AIX packages I've made. These packages are provided as a service to the AIX community. I make no claim about their fitness or correctness. The only thing I promise about them is that they will take up space on your hard drive. text/html 2010-05-24T19:16:21+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/android?rev=1274724981&do=diff Debian Notes on developing on Debian. text/html 2008-05-14T11:01:51+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/anthillos?rev=1210759311&do=diff AnthillPro is a continuous integration system published by Urbancode. Once upon a time, way back in its life, Anthill was plain Anthill and there was an open source variant, Anthill OS. I started using this for automated building and packaging of work's projects about 4 years ago. Since then, I've added to it a couple of times to meet work requirements, first adding Subversion support and lately Mercurial support. text/html 2009-05-22T11:28:07+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/articles?rev=1242988087&do=diff * Inside a distributed version control system. Being a look at Mercurial and how it works. Written for the ACCU journal CVu. Download the PDF or read it online. text/html 2010-12-03T17:44:29+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/belkinomnikvm?rev=1291398269&do=diff For years I've been using a Belkin Omnia KVM to switch my mouse, keyboard and monitor between to Linux/x86 hosts. When Debian introduced the X ''evdev'' driver, I started having troubles. Each time I switched from one machine to another, the mouse pointer would behave oddly, leaping about all over the place. text/html 2011-12-23T11:18:13+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/cryhavoc?rev=1324639093&do=diff Back in 2006 I joined Cry Havoc, a Cotswold Morris side based in Botley, Oxford as a raw novice. I'd never really danced before, and was seduced by the promise of a bit of exercise and a cast-iron excuse for hanging around some decent pubs. Years later, I'm an enthusiast, and I do indeed get to hang around some decent pubs. text/html 2009-04-28T09:56:12+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/debian_nvidia_legacy_173xx_and_2.6.29?rev=1240908972&do=diff I have an ageing nVidia GeForce FX 5600XT. Support for this was recently dropped from the mainstream nVidia driver package, and relegated to legacy 173xx. This caused one minor problem. I build my own nVidia kernel module using module-assistant, (m-a). Right now this doesn't have an entry in its module list for the 173xx legacy module. text/html 2010-05-24T19:22:36+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/debiandroid?rev=1274725356&do=diff Configuring physical device access for ''adb'' You need to get the USB device permissions right. There's been a bit of confusion about this. Here's what I do. I created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules. It contains: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", SYMLINK+="android_adb", GROUP="plugdev" text/html 2010-01-20T09:51:51+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/dell_e5400?rev=1263981111&do=diff First the screen and then the power supply of the Acer 5051AWXMI I've been using for work died some 9 months after the warranty expired. Work said 'Pick a Dell', so I did. I wanted something not too large but with a screen with plenty of resolution. I picked the E5400 with the WXGA+ display after reading good things about its Linux compatibility. text/html 2010-07-27T16:32:16+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/fetchmailandvirginmediagmail?rev=1280244736&do=diff Virgin Media Gmail and Fetchmail Back at the end of May 2010, my home Virgin Media cable service switched from the old mail service to a new service based on Gmail. I was collecting mail from the mail servers with fetchmail using POP3 over SSL. This carried on working over the changeover. text/html 2011-03-05T15:08:04+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/g1-2708-radio?rev=1299337684&do=diff I've known for some time that a radio update for the G1 gives about 14Mb more userspace memory when used in conjunction with the right components on your rooted HTC G1. I wasn't quite clear on what you had to do to get this working, and my first attempt failed. So here's what worked for me. text/html 2011-03-05T14:34:07+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/hardware?rev=1299335647&do=diff Index into hardware-related pages. * Vaio VGN-A497XP disc change * More memory on your rooted HTC G1/Dream text/html 2008-09-26T10:55:24+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/here?rev=1222422924&do=diff Click on each image to see it full size. [Spectra 7046] [Typical 1970s machine room] [DecSystem 10-Ki10] [DecSystem-Ki10a] [IBM System/360] [IBM 3800 printer] [IBM 3420x] [IBM 3420 and 3480] [IBM 2501] [The famous IBM 029 card punch] [IBM 2301 storage drum] [IBM 2314 disc drive] [IBM 3330 disc drive] [Lots of 3350 drives] [3380 storage and controller] [IBM 4248 impact printer. Note large flashing paper out light.] [IBM 3850 installation] [IBM 3278 terminal] text/html 2011-05-06T09:10:31+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/intel910video?rev=1304669431&do=diff After a bit of hardware swapping in the house, I've ended up using an old Dell Dimension 3100 as my browsing/mail reading machine. And so far the experience with Debian Testing has not been nice. The X server crashes under minimal provocation. In particular, mythfrontend causes it to fail by just breathing on it. text/html 2008-08-27T15:49:08+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/k550i_as_modem?rev=1219848548&do=diff Work demands mean that when out and about I may have an urgent need to hook my laptop to an internet connection. Wifi is all very well, but sometimes you need to fall back on the resources of a mobile phone network. Connecting to the net You can use Bluetooth or a USB lead to connect the phone to the laptop. In either case, you then proceed by setting up a dial-up connection. I use KPPP. text/html 2012-02-16T17:09:47+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/ldconfigandrpm?rev=1329412187&do=diff I tripped over this today. I had a RPM file that included a run of /sbin/ldconfig in its %post section. This has been fine for months. And then it wasn't fine any more. Someone did a downgrade. The trouble here is that %post is run before the now unused files from the outgoing package are removed. text/html 2012-02-16T16:53:00+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/linux?rev=1329411180&do=diff I've been a Linux user for quite a while now. Remember Yggdrasil? Some random Linux related items: * Linux on the Acer 5051AWXMi laptop * Synching with the Sony-Ericsson K550i * Using a K550i as a modem for mobile internet * Typing Czech on a UK keyboard * Debian and nVidia legacy 173xx * Linux on the Dell E5400 laptop * Virgin Media, Gmail and fetchmail * Belkin Onmia KVM * Intel 910GL * Virtual mailboxes on Debian Squeeze with Exim4 and Dovecot * Adding root CA certifi… text/html 2012-01-06T17:15:13+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/python?rev=1325870113&do=diff Cookies and xmlrpclib Tracking cookies when using xmlrpclib.Transport. text/html 2012-01-06T17:13:34+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/software?rev=1325870014&do=diff Being software that I'm working on, have worked on or forgotten about. AnthillOS Continuous integration manager. Android Notes on Android development. Python Notes on Python development. text/html 2011-07-07T12:26:42+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/sogodovecotldapandgroups?rev=1310038002&do=diff I've wasted a fair amount of time recently on shared IMAP folders. IMAP shared folder ACLs and SOGo Work has a company SOGo instance. This is backed by a LDAP directory running on OpenLDAP and a Dovecot IMAP server. The SOGo web mail interfaces allows you to set sharing permissions on IMAP folders. It reads and sets these using the IMAP ACL extensions, activated in Dovecot by loading the necessary plugins: text/html 2011-12-23T10:56:40+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/start?rev=1324637800&do=diff This isn't a blog. It's more like my public notepad. Bits of this and that which someone else might one day find useful. What's here? * Software. * Hardware. * Linux stuff. * AIX stuff. My Mercurial AIX packages are here. * A few talks I have given or articles I've written. * ACCU Oxford. * Cry Havoc Morris. text/html 2007-11-27T10:09:46+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/synching_with_the_sony_ericsson_k550i?rev=1196158186&do=diff My old Sony Ericsson T630 has, poor thing, found a watery grave at the bottom of the River Cherwell. Its replacement is a Sony Ericcson K550i. I had my contacts list from the old phone backup up to my laptop using Multisync over Bluetooth. So the first big question - would I be able to restore the backup onto the K550i? text/html 2012-05-09T11:25:46+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/talks?rev=1336559146&do=diff ACCU Conference talks Talks I've given at one or other ACCU Conference. * 2008. [To Distribute Or Not To Distribute: How to know your DVCS from your CVCS] with Russel Winder. A look at the version control scene, focusing on the the wonderful new world of Distributed Version Control. I cover Mercurial, Russel covers Bazaar. * 2011. [DVCS Under the Bonnet]. A look at the internal workings of two popular Distributed Version Control systems, Mercurial and Git * 2011 lightning talk. [Divine… text/html 2008-08-27T15:51:56+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/topbar?rev=1219848716&do=diff * Tech stuff * Software * AnthillOS * Hardware * Linux * Acer 5051AWXMi laptop * Sync with K550i * Dialup with K550i * AIX * AIX packages text/html 2008-04-28T21:25:48+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/touran?rev=1209414348&do=diff I had a car for sale. But it is now sold. Thanks for looking here, anyway. text/html 2011-06-17T12:25:21+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/typing_czech_on_uk_keyboard?rev=1308309921&do=diff So, here I am using KDE on Debian systems and intermittently trying to acquire a smattering of Czech. Czech uses the Roman alphabet, but has some accented characters. I want to be able to type these characters from my GB layout 105 key PC keyboard under KDE. How can I do it? Note that the keyboard has only GB markings. I don't type enough Czech to warrant using a .cz keyboard. text/html 2007-06-01T18:12:34+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/vaio_vgn-a497xp_disc_change?rev=1180717954&do=diff I recently had occasion to change the hard drive on work's Sony Vaio VGN-A497XP. Google turned up a useful guide at here, but the original page is now gone and we're left with the archive on the Wayback Machine. I followed those instructions. Here's my experience. text/html 2011-02-24T20:45:59+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/virtualmailboxeswitheximanddovecot?rev=1298580359&do=diff You know how it is. Your little mail host has just sat there for a long while, slowly accreting a user here and a user there. They are all full users on the machine, so they have logins and everything, and exim is configured to deliver their mails to ~/Maildir. text/html 2011-12-23T11:01:57+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/whoami?rev=1324638117&do=diff I'm Jim Hague. That's me, on the right. [My picture] I'm based in Oxford. That's Oxford, as in ancient city of learning athwart the Thames, in England. The city boasts two universities. I am nothing to do with either of them. I write software. Like a lot of programmers, I get paid for doing this during the day, and don't get paid for doing it at other times. In non-techie company I call myself a software engineer. text/html 2009-03-15T14:52:12+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/wireless?rev=1237128732&do=diff 2x wireless PCI cards, and a wireless access point. These are 802.11b, last generation wireless kit, so have a maximum speed of 11Mbps. Manuals and drivers included. [Picture of items] text/html 2007-03-10T17:33:07+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/wrt54gl?rev=1173547987&do=diff I needed to beef up my home wireless setup recently, and rearrange the domestic network generally. I got a Linksys WRT-54GL. It's now the home internet gateway, I've replaced the original firmware with OpenWRT. I was attracted by its package range and general Debian-like package flexibility. text/html 2012-01-06T17:41:06+01:00 http://www.lunch.org.uk/wiki/xmlrpccookies?rev=1325871666&do=diff You're using the xmlrpclib stuff to access Bugzilla over XML-RPC. But there's a problem. Bugzilla requires you to log in first, and then sets a login cookie which you must return on all subsequent operations. The solution is to create a Transport that collects cookies set by the server and returns them on all subsequent operations.