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On the bus the other day, I was sat in front of an elderly couple, and overheard them talking about the stabbing of a teacher in school. One of them mentioned that they'd heard "the killer played violent video games", with the implication that this w...
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jconsole (and visualvm) can be used to attach to running JVMs, to give information about CPU, threads, memory, and retrieve and change JMX values. Local Running jconsole on the same machine as the running JVM is easiest. It finds a list of running J...
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I used to use StartSSL for my free SSL certificates, but they expire each year, and I'm lazy. So I created my own certificate authority, and certificates. This site uses them. In my Apache config, I've specified that only TLS and DHE-DSS-AES256-SH...
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Just been reminded what a good film Plunkett and Macleane is. It's a gritty, quirky British film about some highwaymen from 1740-something. It's got it all. Loads of great lines - ("You fool! I could have been killed!" "You were." BANG), quite a li...
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The more I see of 24-hour news, the more I dislike them. The BBC has always been fairly un-flashy when it came to TV news, which is great. The "normal" news - i.e. not on BBC News 24 isn't cluttered with scrolling stuff, or flashing swooping things ...
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Something made me think I'd just check that smartmontools was running on my laptop. /etc/init.d/smartd status smartd is stopped Hmm. /etc/init.d/smartd start Starting smartd: [ OK ] chkconfig smartd on ...
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. After almost every F1 race I watch, I think how dull it is, and how I'm not going to watch any more races. Then the next one comes along, and I think I'll watch it, because *this* one might be ...
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I'm having some trouble at the moment. I've got a KVM host, which has a soundcard in it, and I'm trying to expose it to a guest. host # lspci | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller ...
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Cricket is an amazing game. A lot of people find it baffling though, and this isn't helped by people explaining it in the confusing cricket terminology. Yorkers, stumps, out swing, crease, overs, maidens, innings, etc. I think most of the difficulty...
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People have been talking about nginx for a long time now. I've always stuck with Apache, because it's tried and tested, it's what I know, and it's always been good enough for my purposes. But there comes a time when you should re-evaluate your think...