I have a small low-power x86 machine at home running Debian 5.0. I regularly check for updates to any of the packages I have installed on it, and for a while its been offering an upgrade to MySQL. I dont use MySQL much at home, so I havent been too bothered about keeping that up to date. However, I got fed up of it nagging me, so I decided to proceed with the update. The following is what happened:
Preparing to replace mysql-server 5.0.51a-24 (using .../mysql-server_5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mysql-server ...
(Reading database ... 120744 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mysql-server-5.0 ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Removing mysql-client-5.0 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-client-5.1.
(Reading database ... 118764 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-client-5.1 (from .../mysql-client-5.1_5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server-5.1.
Unpacking mysql-server-5.1 (from .../mysql-server-5.1_5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up mysql-client-5.1 (5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1) ...
Setting up mysql-server-5.1 (5.1.34-0.dotdeb.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/mysql ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . failed!
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I recently bought an O2 Mobile Broadband ‘Pay & Go’ dongle. The Huawei E160 variety. Its a neat little dongle, which also has a slot for a MicroSD card.
A colleague of mine wanted to get some kind of mobile broadband solution for his netbook – an Acer Aspire One. Brilliant little machine. I fancy a Samsung NC10 myself, or maybe an Asus 1008HA Seashell.
Anyway, he’s running the standard Acer OS – Linpus. He already had the ‘Mobile Partner’ application installed, which is required if you want to connect using a Huawei modem. We plugged the dongle in, and it was recognised by the software within a few seconds, albeit as a Huawei E220 (technically identical to the E160). It picked up a perfectly reasonable O2 3G signal considering we were indoors. Next came the creation of a ‘profile’ for the connection. We set up a new one, called it ‘O2′, and attempted to enter the settings. Continue reading 'O2 3G Mobile Broadband on Acer Aspire One Netbook'»
My iMac broke a few months ago. Nothing too serious, but annoying nonetheless. The Superdrive decided that it would eat any disc that you put in the slot, and would not eject it. You could hear the mechanism whirring away, but then a nice stressful ‘clunk’, as the disc was eaten again. The disc never even making a minor appearance. So I decided to finally get it fixed while my AppleCare is still valid.
But what’s this got to do with UK Broadband, I hear you – imaginary guy that I’ve borrowed from Wil Wheaton – asking? Shh…I’m getting there…
As I have a lot of personal files on my iMac, I wasnt going to trust it as-is in the hands of my local Apple reseller, so I backed it up with SuperDuper!, formatted it and installed a fresh copy of OS X 10.4 Tiger (via a USB DVD drive). The iMac went off for repair, came back fixed, and then came the time for installing OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Still not seeing what this has to do with UK Broadband… Shhhhh!! I’m getting there!… Continue reading 'The State of UK Broadband Services'»
Ubuntu Desktop comes with ‘Terminal Server Client’, which is ‘tsclient’ with a ‘rdesktop’ backend for RDP functions.
Generally, I tend not to use the full screen mode, but in this instance I needed to. Unlike the Microsoft Remote Desktop client, there is no pinnable banner at the top of the screen to allow you to easily enter/exit full screen mode.
After a lot of keyboard mashing, and various key combos later, it seems that CTRL-ALT-ENTER is the correct combination.
Unlike Flash, I like Adobe AIR. It looks promising. I especially like that there’s a Linux and Mac version.The BBC iPlayer is all the better for moving to the AIR platform, and I’m able to use the same version of Twhirl on any of my Windows/Mac/Linux machines.
However, I dont like Adobe’s lack of support in this area. For example, when downloading the Mac or Windows version, its quite obvious how you install the application. Its how you would normally install an application on those OS’s. On Linux though, it’s not so intuitive. As most Linux users have likely experienced, the usual way of installing applications can differ between distributions. Then there’s compilation from source, etc. For a major software company like Adobe, you’d think they would offer the AIR installer with at the very least, some installation instructions. No?
For those who are wondering, here is how I installed Adobe AIR on my Ubuntu 8.10 system: Continue reading 'Adobe AIR Installation on Linux'»
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