I saw a post on a forum that I frequent from someone asking about cleaning their laptop.
Most manufacturers recommend just cleaning with a damp cloth of some sort, not me! I’ve been using these Screen-Clene thingo’s, they are like a ‘wipe’. They work really well and are non alcoholic (like me, heh heh, cough)
Open the pack, remove the wipe, wipe your machine down and then go over it with a tissue or cloth. presto, cleano!
The Booq Viper EXO arrived today. How exciting. It’s very nice, laptop fits snug, my stuff fits in there nice. Although it can get squeezy! It seems really tough, and the protection for my Macbook Pro is rather good! The shoudler strap is pretty cool and made out of seatbelt style material (like in your car), it’s uber strong.
I bought this bag from
The high quality zippers are nice, and it has room for your laptop, power supply, some cables, a mouse, your mobile/pda, an iPod, and maybe a magazine or two. It’s certainly not the kind of case to carry books and loads of accessories in. Mainly suitable for your machine and the stuff that goes with it.
I’ll see how it goes when I leave work today with it, how it feels, how heavy it all is, etc. I can already tell it’s lighter than lugging around my Dicota Alusight (which is now for sale)
Here’s a mobile phone picture of the new Booq Viper EXO with my MBP inside. I’ll try to get some quality photo’s online soon!
The WRX is in for it’s first service since we bought it. 5,000km’s.
It gets treated to new oil and oil filter and thats pretty much it!
The best thing about the service, is that it’s broken in enough to give it a belting now, awesome!
The spacebar on my macbook pro is squeeky and it’s really pissing me off! Do I take it in for a look, or do I try sort it out myself? grrrr! I cant even see how to get this thing off!
I’ve just ordered the new Booq Viper EXO from Rushfaster. Man this thing is hot!
Should have it this week if I’m lucky. I’ll review it when it gets here!
Pics are here
Last night I setup a backup scheme for a client, they have two Linux machines, a mail server and an intranet server, with no real backup….
I setup a little ‘rsync’ script, that uses SSH to copy data from one machine to the other. It’s all setup on the one server, it copies data off the remote machine, and also copies data to it.
The connection is encrypted and keys were generated for it all to happen automatically. excellent!
A cron job runs the script(s) as desired in the wee hours of the morning.
I sorta followed this guide, it’s excellent, and easy: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html
Oh! and you can setup something like this for your Mac too (OS X has rsync built in, so cool). I’ll be setting up an automator workflow soon which will use rsync to backup data to an external hard disk, for another client. More info on this later
Another weekend bites the dust. What a shame weekends just aren’t long enough!
I spent saturday upgrading some Linux servers for a client. It went well. Two machines. From Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 6. The only snag was that one of the servers (intranet server) refused to run the php intranet app after the upgrade. Bogus. ezPublish requires PHP4, Fedora Core 6 is packaged with PHP5. ezPublish refused to work. Two options left, downgrade (reverse) the machine, or remove PHP5 and hack PHP4 onto the box. I think I’ll downgrade it, it’s way easier. Glad I made a backup of the databases before I took the plunge *sigh*
I’m heading back on-site this evening to rectify the situation. *grumble*
Sunday was a bit of a relaxing day. I headed down to Ryper Hobbies to race the XRAY T2 (tourning car) it’s been a while, a long while. I was recently showered with gifts from a sponsor so I figured why not go try the gear out at the track.
I got some of those ‘RP’ tyres made by Take Off. Chen says “mate they are pure race tyres, they wont last long”. He was right, after race 4, they were down to the canvas, I wasn’t happy! *grrrr*
I also played with some new ‘MUCH MORE’ gear. Including the power distribution block, battery heatsink II, car stand, and a few other things. Pretty neat gear. Lets hope the fan’s inside the new heatsink keep working. MUCH MORE fan’s are known to fail easily.
The T2 handled like turd on a stick. The track was a bit slippery due to the dirt all over it, no setup changes I made could make this thing handle nicely. Oh well, soldier on! I managed to TQ and win, although probably due to the other guys having the same kind of problems as me (handling, breakages, etc)
I tried my new Novak 4.5R brushless motor, it’s super fast, too fast, infact it’s silly for the Ryper track, I don’t know why some of the other guys use it there, the 5.5 is plenty. Maybe I’m just a wuss! heh
Tuesday night I might head to PRECC (carpet) and run the 1/12th. it’s fun and fast.
Since changing over my home server last night, I’ve had to re-configure spam filtering.
A quick run down:
sendmail, procmail, spamassassin.
added this to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl.spamhaus.org')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `blackholes.mail-abuse.org')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.mail-abuse.org')dnl
my /etc/procmailrc:
DROPPRIVS=yes
:0 fw
* < 256000
| /usr/bin/spamc -f
my per user /home/user/.procmailrc files:
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
:0 H
* ^X-Spam-Status:.*Yes
{
EXITCODE=67
:0:
spam
}
Explanation. I’ll keep it short. we’re blacklisting regular spamers using a few servers listed in sendmail.mc so we wont even process emails that come and are in those DB’s. Then we are sending all other emails that are under 256K through spamassassin. If there is spam found, we’re throwing it back at the spammer. Spam is dropped and wont reach the user mailbox.
See how things go. May need to make changes, but so far so good!
My home office Linux server for several years has just been sold and is now gone! A sad day. In it’s place, temporarily, is a Celeron 2.4ghz, 512MB ram, 40gig hdd machine, it sucks. It has Fedora Core 6 on it, and the migration from my previous server seemed to go well.
This machine is temporary, until I pick up a Mac Mini to be my new server! Just waiting for those new Mac Mini’s to be released!
Speaking of mac’s. Pictures of the new Apple TV being unboxed are starting to spread around the internet, exciting times. Not so exciting for us Aussies that dont get movies in the iTunes store. pfft. Whats the point?
