After a few weeks of downtime, my site is finally back on line.

You’ll notice the banner at the top of this post, this is my way of saying a BIG THANKS to Chis at Urevised.com for all the hard work he’s put in; I know I pestered him a lot , but I found him to be very dedicated and helpful; it’s been worth it in the end ! I’m one very happy customer (again ) and would recommend urevised hosting.

I’m not sure what he did to fix wordpress but as soon as I know, I’ll share it with the support forum

This post on Slashdot.org has prompted me to make a long awaited 1st update to my security section.

You can now see the current INFOCon status on my security page

I’ve been away for a couple of days, & it’s always nice to come $HOME to some good news !

My wallpaper “I’d rather be at $HOME” has been approved for art.gnome.org

Check out: http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/gnome/1129

Today I’d rather not be working So a desktop background has been inspired:

Download from Gnome-Look.
Download from [LINICKX].com

Well it’s my Birthday in 10 days time & I’m not usually very good at giving present suggestions to my friends, well this year I thought I’d change that.

It’s only a start (currently only 4 ideas), but here we have it:

http://www.linickx.com/birthday

XFCE 4.2.2 has been released, and to be honest I’ve struggled to get the rpm rebuilds done… just no time :’( !

Anyway the official announcement was here
http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2005-May/000021.html

You can update your whitebox installation using [LINICKX].com ! Check that you have something like this in your /etc/yum.conf…

Then… from a shell do:

…and your done

This is my 1st mini-project !

Written completely in PHP it’s a web front end to manage ices.

A short while ago I stubled across www.icecast.org whilst looking for a way to stream MP3’s from my house to my desk @ work To Stream MP3’s you need a Streaming Server , i.e. something to stream audio to the clients and a Broadcast Server i.e. something to broadcast your audio file (*.mp3) to the streaming server. I’ve used both icecast (Streaming Server) & ices (Broadcast Server) , both of which only have shell (command line) & text file config tools, not exactly pretty & lots of typing

Grr , Some times I’m so indecisive I make myself cross (But I’m so angry I’m not sure )

I’ve moved my Cacti SNMP v3 Document into wordpress so that users/viewers can comment directly.

l8trz

Advertsing, some people hate it, others it’s just mildy Annoying… Well I have the answer, yep, the 1st ever website where you the viewer can disable the ad’s for free !

Check the Advert Control Panel and disable the ad’s… cool.

I’ll be posting the code so other’s can enjoy this revelation; lets make advertising a choice, not a burden.

It’s taken a lot longer than it should have done, but my 1st draft is finally done !

I guess this is the first really test of my site, some real content !

Anywho you can check it how here: Cacti: SNMP v3 “how to”

rgds [NICK]

So I’ve only gone and done it, joined the BLOG-bandwagon.

The questions is… Am I going to use it, or was it just more fun Hacking wordpress to make it “fit” my webiste ?

I’ll be using this BLOG & RSS feed to publish general rants & news about this site, I just hope it makes an interesting read

l8trz