Archive for August, 2006

  1. Norwegian public holidays

    So I was wondering what days are public holidays in Norway, and it seems that most of them are up front in the year, the biggest being the national constitution day on the 17th of May.  This is for 2006:

    New Years Day
    01 January

    Palm Sunday
    9 April

    Maundy Thursday
    13 April

    Good Friday
    14 April

    Easter Sunday
    16 April

    Easter Monday
    17 April

    Public holiday
    01 May

    Constitution Day
    17 May

    Ascension Day
    25 May

    Whit Sunday
    4 June

    Whit Monday
    5 June

    Constitution Day
    17 May

    Christmas Day
    25 December

    Boxing Day
    26 December

    Which is a shame because I would have loved them to be a bit more spread out, but we are lucky to have them anyway.

    By timc3 on the
    August 28th, 2006
  2. Windows tips collection

    Excellent post here with lots of tips and tricks to make Windows a better experience – or at least make it easier to live with it day to day. It includes:

    • How to hack windows XP admin password
    • Registry Hacking
    • Increasing options in add/remove programs
    • Automatically Kill Programs At Shutdown:
    • Speeding Up Share Viewing
    • Aspi
    By timc3 on the
    August 24th, 2006
  3. Goldeneye Source

    Totally excited about this, almost as much as the upcoming Nintendo Wii.  Its a Halflife/Counterstrike mod that acts like the old Nintendo N64 title Goldeneye which I have many memories of spending happy hours running around throughing bouncing bombs and more around.

    So much so that I went home and just downloaded Steam, and purchased Counterstrike Source so I could play it.

    Hows that for a impulse purchase!!  -  Well actually only $19.95 but all the same, I don’t really play games on the PC but I couldn’t resist this.

    By timc3 on the
    August 21st, 2006
  4. Almost finished a site!

    Along time ago I wrote a list of things that I need to complete, well I have managed to get one thing done on the list, and that was a site I was building for a friend.  Its almost complete from his designs, though I have yet to get feedback.  The site is in Norwegian, for a Norwegain company and it is:

    http://www.nord-vesteiendom.as/

    Screenshot of Nord-VestEiendom

    Its a really simple site on the outside, showcasing new house builds, and all the import information will be uploaded in PDFs shortly.  As normal I built the whole thing on top of WordPress 2, with a custom template which actually contains quite a bit more custom PHP than the simplicity of the site actually reveals.  But Wordpress lets anyone update the site, add in pictures which are formatted properly and then attach PDFs.

    I will be of course putting in more information about the build in my portfolio site.  Now on to build http://jeanettemagnussen.com

    By timc3 on the
    August 12th, 2006
  5. LVM and RAID

    With all the nice scripts I have been writing for usenet on Linux, I am running out of space all the time on my file server.   So soon, I am going to bite the bullet and upgrade my disks.

    Currently I am thinking of taking on of my machines which is a sempron, underclocking it and putting in some new disks.
    Firstly if I put in 3×320Gb Seagate barracudas I can use Linux to Raid-5 the 3 disks and use LVM to create a big partition that I can add to in the future.  My last problem with LVM was that one of my disks stopped working, so I would like to get around that problem as this is going to be the master filestorage for the house.  I will use a seperate 120Gb for /boot and a few other partitions for safety.

    I also have some external disks (about 1Tb worth) so I will hang these off it aswell for backing up data / pictures and music but it will also give me the opportunity to install another 3 drives in the future with whats left.

    Some good points of information I have found are:

    http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php

    http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

    http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/435008610831

    Once I have done this the other machines will be taken apart.  I don’t need an additional 3 servers or want to waste the electricity, but I will probably run VMWare Server on this new machine to have some flexibility.  That and a seperate openBSD based firewall / snort box will be my servers for now/future.

    By timc3 on the
    August 9th, 2006