Archive for the ‘Systems’ Category
Tuesday 30 December 2008
The announcement of a 'leap second' to be added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at the end of 2008 reminded me to double-check that we're using Network Time Protocol (NTP) on all of our servers to keep our clocks accurate. Here are a couple of links to instructions for configuring ...
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Saturday 27 September 2008
I needed to get an internet connection on my MacBook earlier today, but with no wireless access points available the only option was using my Nokia N95 as a 3G modem. Unfortunately getting a connection using the O2 network wasn't quite as straightforward as hoped. Here's how it's done:
First off, ...
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Monday 7 July 2008
Having finally got hold of a Nokia N95 8GB last week, my first task was to connect it to the eduroam wireless network at The University of Sheffield. This proved to be much easier said than done, so for the sanity of everyone else here is the procedure:
First off, connect ...
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Monday 7 July 2008
epiGenesys is still continuing our trial of Google Apps as a mail platform. In the last few days we identified a particularly important feature that appears to be missing from the service - the ability to nest mailing lists. This could be a perfectly reasonable design decision to prevent Google ...
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Sunday 22 June 2008
epiGenesys has recently started a trial of Google Apps as a platform for our corporate e-mail (and also calendars, instant messaging, etc). The standard (free) edition gives us hosted mailboxes with over 6 GB of storage each, and all the usual Google Mail features including webmail, IMAP and mobile access.
So ...
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