May 2008 15 th
Installing the Groupwise Client on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
So we use GroupWise obviously. However for the most part, I spend my time on Ubuntu these days as I like XFCE4 and Ubuntu as a whole. This is not to say I don’t use my Novell Suse Enterprise Desktop, I do, quite a lot, but its also nice to have a bit of a play with other distros from time to time.
Add a commentApr 2008 18 th
Running Confluence on port 80 or 443 using mod_proxy_ajp
Okay, I use Confluence a lot, and think despite some of its failings in the UI department (Although they are being addressed as version 2.8 shows) its a excellent Enterprise Wiki.
Now, not wanting to arse around with Tomcat all the time, I use the standalone build generally as its quite sufficient for my purposes. The problems arise when we have remote workers, whom are behind restrictive firewall policies. So that means I have to provide the service on 443. Now you could spend a bit of time configuring Tomcat to run on said port, but thats not recommended, plus you may want to use other technologies such a PHP etc. So here is a quick how to on getting confluence up and running on port 443 on Suse Enterprise Server 10 (Al tough the same applies to most Linux distros with the exception of the convoluted config Novell apply to Apache). This post presumes you already have installed Confluence standalone and its running fine.
Apr 2008 9 th
Tibet Spam
Recently I published a brief post on Freeing Tibet and since then the amount of abusive comments and email I have gotten has raised considerably.
While I will approve comments both for and against the freeing of Tibet, I will only do so should they be what I deem legitimate. I.e. They do not appear to be copy paste jobs, refrain from abuse and are sensible comments.
Otherwise, please bugger off. I’m not intersted in being a fora for the promotion of your sites. In particular, posters from;
- 168.144.250.89
- 206.155.48.217
- 128.221.197.21
have been banned (not that it will make much difference) but sure I may as well do something at the FW level seening as I was working on it anyhow.
Apr 2008 2 nd
Ahern Quits
Rather than face more scrutiny over payments he may have received, Bertie Ahern has quit as Irish Prime Minister. He will retire from office on May 6th after an address to both houses of congress.
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Free Tibet, China and the Olymics and all that
Before I go on, I am not normally political, but recently I am just getting fed up with lots of things, maybe its my age catching up on me. I have just being watching John O’Shea on TV3 talk about Tibet and the Olympics. Now I don’t have much time for John O’Shea (for no reason only from I find charities annoying and pushy at times) but he did mention two interesting things.
- The smaller countries like Ireland (Who’s government is ohh so found of telling its citizens how “well respected” it is on the world stage) should take a stance at at least threaten to boycott the games (We won’t miss much anyhow, we rarely win anything)
- Don’t watch them
The second is a really nice passive way of resistance.
Now considering that this post will now be filtered out by the Great firewall of China, I hope that the rest of this post will go unoticed by the Chinese authorities and we’ll all catch them by surprise.
Proposal
I propose that any blogger who feels strongly enough, make a simple post on the 30th of April 2008 with the title of “Why I think Tibet Should Be Free”/”Please Free Tibet” or something with Free and Tibet in the title. If you think independence is not needed you can also post something similar. You can include as little or as much in the post body as you want to.
If you use Wordpress, you can even do it now, and select the publish date as the 30th April and forget all about it. I already have.
Sure its not as strong as storming the Chinese embassy, but its just another way we can all let the Chinese government (I doubt that they need reminding) that people in the world object to whats going on (BTW while I’m at it, China you should be ashamed of your conduct in relation toDarfur). As a side benifit, if enough blogs do this, it should send the Great Firewall into some serious filtering time.
Update: 00:04 01.04.08 - If you don’t feel like doing a blog post, on the 30th you can do simple things like set the status message of your IM client to read “Free Tibet” or similar. You can also do this with Facebook.
1 CommentMar 2008 31 st
Finally, most Cuban photos uploaded.
After what seems like ages, I finally got around to uploading the rest of my Cuban photos to Flickr, feel free to visit and comment.
I will hopefully get around to completing the titles and brief info sections later this evening. FInd below quick links to my favorite ones.
Mar 2008 30 th
Wordpress 2.5 Upgrade
Ok, so WP 2.5 is out and I have to say the upgrade was a breeze thus far. I will see how it affects my broken theme with this post. I have to say I love the new admin interface, its a lot cleaner with an easier interface although it may need a slight tweak with higher screen resolutions as it currently only fills about 60% of my screen when browser is maximized.
Well done to all involved, I am looking forward to 2.6 already, I think its the start of something wonderful.
Mar 2008 30 th
Man With Cock
Standing around outside our casa in Trinidad, friends pointed out this old gentleman walking up the street. I waited despite their cries for “take a photo”, till he had passed me. He looked as if he had a long, hard life, but was obviously quite happen with his bird in the hand.
Mar 2008 28 th
Cuba 2008
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Cuba. Of course I took my trusty Nikon with me, so over the next few days I will upload a few of the images that I captured. Starting off is this typical street scene of Habana
Mar 2008 6 th
Anti war protests - series 1
A collection of photos from the sit down protests outside Leinster House (Irish Parliament) 2002
Again sorry for the low quality, but these are scanned in ages ago.
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