I've just found a fix to an annoying issue. I have a keystroke set to activate the screensaver and the lock the screen of my work MacBook Pro via an applescript. I was recently finding when I came back from lunch the system is pretty much dying on…
So this post falls neatly under the "watching paint dry" category, so if you're susceptible to rage induced by reading terminally dull posts avert your eyes now. I've been having some interesting issues with VMs running on VMware server of late. Basically the problem…
So this week I'm nominating Caffè Nero for a cup of coffee so utterly failsome I don't think someone with a kettle and frieze-dried coffee could do worse. What's even more annoying is that this kiosk has a La Marzocco machine. La Marzocco are…
A couple of weeks back I was giving uTidyLib a hard time for exploding when passed a unicode string. (see FAIL of the week: uTidyLib unicode error [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/07/17/fail-of-the-week-utidylib-unicode-error/]). Looking further into using uTidyLib for tidying HTML I found there is a way…
I've been having some really nasty time drift on VMware servers guests of late. This is a big pain because so much relies on accurate date and time. The problem I was seeing was that the time on the guest was running very fast so I took the…
This week I’ve been having fun using uTidyLib, a python wrapper for HTML tidy. All was working swimmingly until I hooked it up to a custom form validation function in Django. The Python process on my mac kept crashing and I was wondering what the cause was since it…
First you need the vmware tools tar from the cd image. This is found at /media/cdrom once you've run "install vmware tools" from the server console. When I did this the CD didn't seem to be available even though it looked like it…
After cloning a vmware image to copy to my local machine I had an issue with eth0 not coming up on an Ubuntu VM. After a bit of googling I found a solution that required editing /etc/ftab to remove an incorrect generated mac address. Hardy Heron doesn't…