Rob’s Digital Life

Palm or Symbian?
I’ve recently only considered the palm Operating System as the only OS worth using. I originally started out with PSION (3c 1mb) running it’s own PSION OS. Then PSION created a separate company with partners such as nokia, ericsson etc called Symbian. Not a lot happen for a while and some partners [...]

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using mobiles phones to create ad-hoc networks.
Another article on the subject of networks created using the devices themselves. It’s a bit more in-depth than some of the other articles I’ve seen recently [read article]

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clevercactus

this is a tool that intergrates email, rss, projects, calendar etc…is one tool that does it all better than several tools that specialize?
I personally prefer to use different tools, so a email client tat specializes in email, an RSS aggregater that is the best etc etc. you can then replace the tool if a better [...]

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Nokia 6600

This phone is getting a lot of publicity and generally some good press. It looks a bit odd in my view but it appears to do the business. Read Russell Beattie’s review over at Mobitopia

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Guardian Online
I like this..

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communitywireless.org

not sure how long this has been around but it looks like it’s trying t bring together all the community wireless projects around the UK..cool http://www.communitywireless.org/
I’ll have a dig through it later see if there’s any mention of Chester…ho hmm.

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interesting for work..
especially…NeDi for managing Cisco routers. Whole article here

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pesky fair ground owner..
i’ve fixed the mysterious web site failure….It was a BIOS setting that moved the linux box to a power saving mode after 30 mins.
I’ve disabled it so hopefully the web site should be up now and for as long as I want.

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hmm..web server down again!
some strange goings on of late..my web site monitoring has been email/smsing me far too much recently and I couldn’t figure out why.I thought lnux and apache ould give me a far more stable system than my previous web server.
So this monring I stated a ping test from the XP box to [...]

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yikes…loads to sort out..
I need to figure out what domain I intend to use and then how I’m gonna host it. I then need to sort out the files structure of MT.
And the the virtual hosting name paths to host both the new blog and the other web sites..
Do i host the domain totaly or [...]

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but…my external IP address is still what ever BT gives me…hmm…I’ll move on the domain name virtual hosts…hohum!

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one step closer to multiple web hosting..

C:\Documents and Settings\Rob>arp -a
Interface: 10.0.0.2 — 0×2
Internet Address Physical Address Type
10.0.0.1 00-80-ad-ba-dc-41 dynamic
10.0.0.4 [...]

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More linux achievements..
apache is running ok still..and now so id vsftp which allows me to ftp from the XP box to the linux box once I’ve edited the web pages in dreamweaver…cool.
I’ve also started on the PERL programing, so I’ve written my first PERL program..horah!
I’ve used perl in previous lives for web site searches etc, [...]

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linux the story so far..
linux is on and up and running…apache is going to ..took a while to figure out you had to turn on the service but it works fine now..
I’ve got about 2gb of space to host various web sites so that should be fine.
so finally my various web sites are hosted by [...]

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another box..
the box II had high hopes for is going to be ditched and replaced by a pentium 2, 6gb 128mb machine, so that’s a bit more umph than the P75 8mb 1gb machine that is currently hosting a couple of web sites for me. I must say that it does the job just fine, [...]

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