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directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve
, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.
Per-Packet Load Balancing With Linux
The ISP I use at home and at work, Andrews and Arnold, support bonding of multiple lines with per-packet load balancing. Incoming traffic is handled by them using custom hardware and software - the control panel lets me select which lines should be used for each block of IP addresses and they then handle balancing the traffic over those lines on a per-packet basis.
Time Travelling Trains
The new National Express East Anglia timetable doubles the trains between Liverpool Street and Hertford East on a Sunday evening which is excellent - no more waiting around at Broxbourne for the Cambridge train to catch up if you happen to have got the direct train.
Mapzen: First Thoughts
CloudMade have tonight launched their Mapzen flash based editor for OpenStreetMap. It’s officially described as a beta, but as they’ve made it publicly available and it is working against the live API and editing real data I assume that is more of a “Google beta” than anything else.
Secure Usernames
We’ve all dealt with web site which have rules (ostensibly to increase security) about having a certain mix of character types in your password. Today however I encountered an entirely new security concept:
OpenOffice Is Way Too Clever
OpenOffice really is way too clever for it’s own good…
Building a Low Power Firewall
For a number of years now I have used my old desktop computers to act as firewalls for my home network - when my desktop is upgraded the old firewall is freecycled and the old desktop becomes the new firewall.
BT Really Are Clinically Insane
Yesterday, as mentioned in my previous post, I (eventually) sent BT a message via their web site asking them to stop making marketing calls to me.
Contacting British Telecom…
So I get an annoying telesales call from some (for once reasonably comprehensible) guy in India on behalf of our dearly beloved national telco trying, somewhat bizarrely, to offer me a Visa card. After explaining that I prefer to obtain financial services from financial institutions and to stick to purchasing telephone service from a telco I hang up and go looking for a way to tell BT to cease and desist with this nonsense.
…into the LOVEFiLM Fire
So to continue where my previous post left off, on Monday morning I signed up for my free trial with LOVEFiLM and added some films to my queue (actually I just copied over my BlockBuster queue) and sat back and waited for something to be allocated and sent out.