Category Archives: General

Oh! The troubles I’ve seen! Every now and again my DSL router, a ZyXEL Prestige 623R-T1 would pack in and refuse to perform DNS requests. A mail to the ILUG on the matter didn’t help as nobody replied but I think I have come to a round about solution! Use a proxy server and caching name server!
So, I installed Squid and bind. Pointed my browser at Squid, /etc/resolv.conf at 127.0.0.1 and all seems fine!
I had previously noticed the router fail when I had opened a lot of browser tabs (6 web pages? Not much IMO) so I tried again with almost a dozen. Worked first time and because you’re seeing this, it’s still working!
Fingers crossed that it continues to work.

Common Errors in English – I resisted the urge to use some of the common errors listed in this post. Maybe Kevin can help in a comment?

“Independence Way” by Sam Jaffe is an intriguing article that explores the future of our energy needs. It all sounds promising if correct!

This is where I live.
(thanks Kverens for the title!)

What if the US attacked Iraq to prop up the US Dollar? This article delves into that idea.

Iraq is a European Union beachhead in that confrontation. America had a monopoly on the oil trade, with the US dollar being the fiat currency, but Iraq broke ranks in 1999, started to trade oil in the EU’s euros, and profited. If America invades Iraq and takes over, It will hurl the EU and its euro back into the sea and make America’s position as the dominant economic power in the world all but impregnable.

$ whoami
donncha
No, seriously folks! John McCormac asked on the ILUG how many were in the sub 100K category of the Linux Counter. I had a vague memory of registering there ages ago and turns out I’m #52277! ‘Course, on slashdot, I’m #1377 which is slightly better!

and I rush off, here’s a few links!

• Spamusement – little cartoons inspired by spam .. hilarious! (via Rand)
• Do you run a blogspot hosted site? You’ve got his nuts inside then! hehe.

Huge number of tips here. Linux related and otherwise. A few NSFW jokes but otherwise good stuff in a nice text file!

According to this report Ireland could be where Atlantis was situated! Now if only it could have been somewhere exotic.. I wonder what was in Cork, like?

The referer db table just got hosed but I’ve rebuilt it. Unfortunately your referer listing is going to be a little short for a few days until it fills again!
Anyway, I have the following running each night. Should have done this before.

#!/bin/sh

export d=`date +%u`
for i in `echo show tables |mysql -u username -ppassword b2`
do
    echo "check table $i"| mysql -u username -ppassword b2
done
mysqldump --opt -u username -ppassword b2 > backup/b2-$d.sql