Chris Searle

Thursday the 11th February - the router from my ISP (NextGenTel) suddenly entered a constant restart loop. Start, find DSL, find settings, connect, 2 sec or so uptime, reboot and off we go again.

We've been investigating and now have found what starts the cycle but have no idea how or why - it just seems really odd ;)

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The Pro series of NAS from ReadyNAS (Netgear) support iSCSI out of the box. But the NV+ 4disk unit does not. However - a third party plugin is available. Let's look at what is needed to get iSCSI connections between the ReadyNAS NV+ and an iMac running Snow Leopard.

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Steps to confuse a flexus card.

1. Have a ticket due to run out at 21:39 2nd feb
2. Add a new 30 day ticket on the 1st feb
3. Go to Ullevål Stadion on the 2nd at about 19:00
4. All validating machines "No valid ticket on card"
5. Payment machine shows both active ticket and new ticket and can in fact print out a receipt showing so

And there we have it - I'm confused.

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Running some porting scripts (command line PHP) for drupal yesterday - and for the first time trying out postgres.

I kept getting a segmentation fault at the end of each script.

Turns out that there is some issue with the curl and postgres php modules.

For a workaround on debian see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411982#120 - it changes the order of loading.

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The BT3030 bluetooth headset is a nice headset but with the iphone the minimum volume is too high.

It seems that a firmware update on the jabra can help a bit.

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Just a short reminder - the list of paths that path_helper (/usr/libexec/path_helper is called from /etc/profile) is stored in /etc/paths. Just add /usr/local/bin at the top of the file.

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I'm an avid listener to audiobooks. They're perfect for the trip to and from work (via public transport).

But there's one thing I just don't understand. Abridged versions.

You see - I like to re-read (or listen) to books I know and like. As someone who reads often I tend to have good recall of the actual text. Good enough that when the audiobook jumps I'll react.

Got caught again yesterday - only one copy available of the book and I'll admit I didn't check. Off to work - listening - and suddenly - boom - bits missing.

I'd understand if it was a size or length thing - but this is 7,5 hours abridged. It would be about 8 to 8,5 non-abridged. If you have 7,5 hours then getting one more isn't going to be an issue. Nor is size - 215Mb.

I guess I simply don't get why you'd want to save 30 or so minutes by hacking at the author's prose.

I guess I should also be more careful checking in future ;)

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Twice in the last two days my iPhone 3G has not started properly (it gets to the white apple logo and no further).

In each case - a reset (press and hold both power and the main button until it stops) has allowed the phone to boot (albeit slowly - 2 mins or so).

But - once booted - it can only run the inbuilt apps - no third party apps run.

Last night I did a recover from backup. Today I did not want to go thru that again - it takes a long time.

Some googling has suggested that the phone loses some kind of authorization for apps. It suggests that adding a new free app or removing and re-adding an app can fix this.

It doesn't work for me over wlan or 3g. It does prompt for the password but the download never starts - and after a restart it just says "Unable to purchase".

Via iTunes and a USB cable it did work - simply removing an app then re-adding it (a sync required for each step) has re-enabled the apps.

I have no idea why the resets were needed (hope it's temporary) but at least this brings all the apps back without a full restore.

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Doesn't it seem strange that the new ticket system in Oslo seems to have parts that don't talk to each other?

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Several of the Twitter Photochallenge (http://www.flickr.com/groups/twphch/) took a trip out to Gressholmen (one of the islands in the Oslo fjord) Sunday evening. The last chance for an evening shoot - the boats don't run so late in the colder half of the year and Sunday was the last day.

Many good shots were taken - search for TwPhChTur2 on flickr.

Here's the shots I was most pleased with (from 210 taken):

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