Jonathan

Readership demographics

I’ve been using awstats to collect statistics on visitors to my blog since July 2009. I’m a sucker for pretty graphs, so I’ve made a few 🙂 Operating systems First and foremost, which operating systems are visitors running? Good to see a disproportionately large number of Linux users! It’s probably a self-selecting audience to aContinue reading “Readership demographics”

Guide listings in Vista MCE for ITV channels

When I get my Vista-based Media Center to scan for FreeView channels, it finds them all correctly. When I go to add listings, I choose my region and it fetches them. But ITV1 and ITV2 both lack listings – despite the fact that the listings in question appear to be available. There’s a tweak youContinue reading “Guide listings in Vista MCE for ITV channels”

Escaping usernames during RADIUS accounting

Today I encountered a problem in my FreeRADIUS setup. Usernames can be sent to my RADIUS servers as a simple username (e.g. jonathan) or with a realm prepended (e.g. DOMAINjonathan). When a username with a realm gets sent to a RADIUS authentication server that is doing MSCHAP, the domain is automatically stripped and you neverContinue reading “Escaping usernames during RADIUS accounting”

I wish I wasn’t a cretin…

That is, I wish I wasn’t a cretin when I was a child. I have an archive of hundreds of photos that I took as a child on various single-use cameras. I’ve scanned in the 6″x4″ prints over the past few weeks and they’ve come out as well as can be expected for grubby, well-handledContinue reading “I wish I wasn’t a cretin…”

Is it stronger than a Ford Mondeo?

In response to questions such as “Will it blend?“ I am asking “Is it stronger than a Ford Mondeo?”. This morning, I turned my head too fast and my cycling glasses flew off my nose and landed in the road. A Mondeo came along and crushed them, So the answer is no – cycling glassesContinue reading “Is it stronger than a Ford Mondeo?”

Review: Promise SmartStor NS4300N NAS

I decided to buy a NAS and remove the disks from my home server. I didn’t want to spend too much money, since this was one of those non-essential projects. But equally, I didn’t want to spend too little and get something that would break and destroy all my data with it. Eventually I decidedContinue reading “Review: Promise SmartStor NS4300N NAS”

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Urban landscape

This week’s Tuesday Challenge from Stu was to create an urban landscape. I’ve been busy all week and so earmarked Saturday to go out and take some landscapes from various locations around Bristol. Its hilly nature lends itself to grand vistas without needing to gain access to a tall building. Unfortunately, the weather on SaturdayContinue reading “Urban landscape”

We did it!

Today, my family and I cycled from Bristol to Bath and back to raise money for Marie Curie cancer care. Thanks to all those who sponsored us – the final count was £326 which will be greatly appreciated by cancer sufferers and their families.

When does a netbook stop being a netbook?

I came across this article today, which asks the question “When does a netbook stop being a netbook?”. I have thought about this question in the past, and so I read the article with interest. I was one of the early adopters of the Asus EeePC 701, which was truly a “netbook”, in the originalContinue reading “When does a netbook stop being a netbook?”