https://lunch.org.uk/ 2026-05-06T06:14:18+00:00 https://lunch.org.uk/ https://lunch.org.uk/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2019-01-28T19:27:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/accuoxford?rev=1548703638&do=diff [ACCU Oxford] The Oxford postcode area has more ACCU members than any other single postcode area. It seemed a pity to me that there was no local group, so a select group met for the inaugural meeting on 25/6/08. Meetings are held on Wednesdays, usually (but not exclusively) the last Wednesday of the month. Meeting start at 8pm and run until 9:30pm. After which we usually adjourn for a drink and post-meeting discussion. text/html 2009-09-24T09:48:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/acer5051awxmi?rev=1253785690&do=diff Debian Sid on an Acer 5051AWXMi The motherboard on the old Vaio R600-HEP I've been using for work died at the start of 2007. I needed a new laptop in a hurry; nothing fancy, I use it for some light development work and reading mail while on the road. I dithered briefly over a cheapie Dell or the Acer, and ended up going for the Acer because it didn't look like the Dell offering had a 64bit CPU. There's a chance I might need to be doing some 64bit compilation during the lifetime of the beast. text/html 2013-03-11T15:29:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/addingkdecaroots?rev=1363015761&do=diff Adding root CA certificates to KDE on Debian I've been trying to get kaddressbook working with the company LDAP server. The LDAP server is accessed over SSL using the standard LDAP SSL port 636. All I would get is a dialog saying Could not connect to host ldaps://cn%3d' [rest of URL omitted]. text/html 2013-11-13T20:16:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/aix_packages_old?rev=1384373804&do=diff (This is the old version of my AIX Packages page. All packages here are still available, but unless you're stuck with having to use Python 2.3 or Python 2.4 I suggest you head straight back to the current AIX Packages page. AIX Packages Information on various AIX packages I've made. text/html 2014-07-07T09:37:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/aix_packages?rev=1404725879&do=diff AIX Packages Information on various AIX packages I've made. These packages are provided as a service to the AIX community. I make no claim about their fitness or correctness. The only thing I promise about them is that they will take up space on your hard drive. text/html 2007-11-23T11:03:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/aix?rev=1195815807&do=diff AIX Work has a large deployment on AIX, so I've had to learn a little about AIX. I keep myself sane by installing a lot of Open Source tools on my AIX boxes. IBM have a good selection of packages available, though they are very conservative about issuing updates so versions are often quite old. text/html 2013-09-19T12:21:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/akonadiandkmail2?rev=1379593303&do=diff KMail2, Akonadi and friends The desktop and laptop machine that I use from day to day both run Debian Sid with a KDE desktop. Leaving aside a little wobble in the early days of KDE4, I've used KDE for a long time, and in particular have grown very used to the ways of KMail. It fits my personal email setup, where I have work and personal emails all in one account, and receive and send email under various email addresses depending on context, very well. text/html 2010-05-24T18:16:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/android?rev=1274724981&do=diff Android Debian Notes on developing on Debian. text/html 2008-05-14T10:01:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/anthillos?rev=1210759311&do=diff Anthill OS AnthillPro is a continuous integration system published by Urbancode. Once upon a time, way back in its life, Anthill was plain Anthill and there was an open source variant, Anthill OS. I started using this for automated building and packaging of work's projects about 4 years ago. Since then, I've added to it a couple of times to meet work requirements, first adding text/html 2009-05-22T10:28:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/articles?rev=1242988087&do=diff Articles * Inside a distributed version control system. Being a look at Mercurial and how it works. Written for the ACCU journal CVu. Download the PDF or read it online. text/html 2013-02-27T12:09:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/asteriskandnetphoneke1020a?rev=1361966997&do=diff Using a KE1020A with your Asterisk server I was after a cheap and cheerful SIP phone to use with my Asterisk server. Right now, by which I mean February 2013, eBay turns up a regular supply of a cheap (£15.99 plus post) beast called the Netphone KE1020A. So I took the plunge. But I had a bit of trouble getting the thing working and ended up having to connect my PC into the text/html 2010-12-03T17:44:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/belkinomnikvm?rev=1291398269&do=diff Linux and Belkin Omni KVM For years I've been using a Belkin Omnia KVM to switch my mouse, keyboard and monitor between to Linux/x86 hosts. When Debian introduced the X ''evdev'' driver, I started having troubles. Each time I switched from one machine to another, the mouse pointer would behave oddly, leaping about all over the place. text/html 2014-11-12T13:40:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/canonmf9280cdn?rev=1415799605&do=diff Canon MF9280 and CUPS I've wasted a truckload of time getting the office MF9280 to work using the official Canon Linux drivers. I did eventually get the Debian package, installed on my 64bit Jessie laptop, to work, but only after some heavy Googling found a suggestion to install text/html 2011-12-23T11:18:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/cryhavoc?rev=1324639093&do=diff Cry Havoc Botley Morris Back in 2006 I joined Cry Havoc, a Cotswold Morris side based in Botley, Oxford as a raw novice. I'd never really danced before, and was seduced by the promise of a bit of exercise and a cast-iron excuse for hanging around some decent pubs. Years later, I'm an enthusiast, and I do indeed get to hang around some decent pubs. text/html 2009-04-28T08:56:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/debian_nvidia_legacy_173xx_and_2.6.29?rev=1240908972&do=diff Building nVidia 173xx legacy kernel with Debian module assistant I have an ageing nVidia GeForce FX 5600XT. Support for this was recently dropped from the mainstream nVidia driver package, and relegated to legacy 173xx. This caused one minor problem. I build my own nVidia kernel module using text/html 2010-05-24T18:22:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/debiandroid?rev=1274725356&do=diff Developing for Android on Debian Configuring physical device access for ''adb'' You need to get the USB device permissions right. There's been a bit of confusion about this. Here's what I do. I created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules. It contains: text/html 2010-01-20T09:51:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/dell_e5400?rev=1263981111&do=diff Debian Sid on an Dell E5400 First the screen and then the power supply of the Acer 5051AWXMI I've been using for work died some 9 months after the warranty expired. Work said 'Pick a Dell', so I did. I wanted something not too large but with a screen with plenty of resolution. I picked the text/html 2014-09-16T08:55:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/emacserrors?rev=1410857741&do=diff Notes on troubles I've had with GNU Emacs A random scrapbook of problems and solutions for things I've stubbed my toe on with GNU Emacs. ---------- Starting up Emacs24 one day, and the C++ setup didn't get run. I enabled (setq debug-on-error t) text/html 2010-07-27T15:32:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/fetchmailandvirginmediagmail?rev=1280244736&do=diff Virgin Media Gmail and Fetchmail Back at the end of May 2010, my home Virgin Media cable service switched from the old mail service to a new service based on Gmail. I was collecting mail from the mail servers with fetchmail using POP3 over SSL. This carried on working over the changeover. text/html 2011-03-05T15:08:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/g1-2708-radio?rev=1299337684&do=diff More memory with radio 2708 on HTC G1 I've known for some time that a radio update for the G1 gives about 14Mb more userspace memory when used in conjunction with the right components on your rooted HTC G1. I wasn't quite clear on what you had to do to get this working, and my first attempt failed. So here's what worked for me. text/html 2013-02-16T21:26:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/hardware?rev=1361049992&do=diff Hardware Index into hardware-related pages. * Vaio VGN-A497XP disc change * More memory on your rooted HTC G1/Dream * Using a Netphone KE1020A with your Asterisk server text/html 2008-09-26T09:55:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/here?rev=1222422924&do=diff Pictures from Pete Dillon's ACCU Oxford talk Click on each image to see it full size. [Spectra 7046] [Typical 1970s machine room] [DecSystem 10-Ki10] [DecSystem-Ki10a] [IBM System/360] [IBM 3800 printer] [IBM 3420x] [IBM 3420 and 3480] [IBM 2501] [The famous IBM 029 card punch] [IBM 2301 storage drum] [IBM 2314 disc drive] [IBM 3330 disc drive] [Lots of 3350 drives] [3380 storage and controller] [IBM 4248 impact printer. Note large flashing paper out light.] [IBM 3850 installation] [IBM 3278 … text/html 2014-06-01T20:23:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/hgbugzilla?rev=1401654237&do=diff The Mercurial Bugzilla extension The Mercurial Distributed Version Control System comes as standard with an extension providing some integration with Bugzilla bug tracking. Bugzilla 4.4.3 and later The Mercurial extension uses the Bugzilla XML-RPC API to interact with Bugzilla. text/html 2014-06-01T20:12:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/hgbuzilla?rev=1401653557&do=diff The Mercurial Bugzilla extension The Mercurial Distributed Version Control System comes as standard with an extension providing some integration with Bugzilla bug tracking. Bugzilla 4.4.3 and later The Mercurial extension uses the Bugzilla XML-RPC API to interact with Bugzilla. text/html 2011-05-06T08:10:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/intel910video?rev=1304669431&do=diff Intel 910GL After a bit of hardware swapping in the house, I've ended up using an old Dell Dimension 3100 as my browsing/mail reading machine. And so far the experience with Debian Testing has not been nice. The X server crashes under minimal provocation. In particular, text/html 2017-02-03T16:43:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/jessieandopenvpn?rev=1486140186&do=diff Setting up an OpenVPN server on Debian Jessie It's not a classic use case for having a VPN connection available while on the road, but if your server has IPv6 connectivity, you can IPv6 enable your VPN client. I have a few hosts only accessible via IPv6, so when outside enlightened networks this enables me to access them conveniently. text/html 2008-08-27T14:49:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/k550i_as_modem?rev=1219848548&do=diff Get a dialup internet connction with Linux and a Sony Ericsson K550i Work demands mean that when out and about I may have an urgent need to hook my laptop to an internet connection. Wifi is all very well, but sometimes you need to fall back on the resources of a mobile phone network. text/html 2012-02-16T17:09:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/ldconfigandrpm?rev=1329412187&do=diff Running ldconfig in RPM %post scripts I tripped over this today. I had a RPM file that included a run of /sbin/ldconfig in its %post section. This has been fine for months. And then it wasn't fine any more. Someone did a downgrade. The trouble here is that text/html 2017-02-03T15:54:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/linux?rev=1486137275&do=diff Linux I've been a Linux user for quite a while now. Remember Yggdrasil? Some random Linux related items: * Linux on the Acer 5051AWXMi laptop * Synching with the Sony-Ericsson K550i * Using a K550i as a modem for mobile internet * Typing Czech on a UK keyboard * Debian and nVidia legacy 173xx * Linux on the Dell E5400 laptop * Virgin Media, Gmail and fetchmail * Belkin Onmia KVM * Intel 910GL * Virtual mailboxes on Debian Squeeze with Exim4 and Dovecot * Adding root CA… text/html 2012-08-31T09:14:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/missingbookmarkfaviconsinchromium?rev=1346404483&do=diff Missing bookmark favicons in Chromium While fiddling around enabling WebGL on Chromium yesterday (I'm now starting Chromium with --enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist, the latter being necessary because I have an ATI video card), I tried the latest Chrome release. Once back to Chromium, none of my bookmarks displayed a favicon. text/html 2014-07-11T15:42:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/money_put?rev=1405093359&do=diff GCC 3.3 and std::money_put_w For reasons beyond my control, at work we have a deployment built from GCC 3.3 running on CentOS 4 and 5. I've had a mysterious link failure when setting up a new build machine. I'm installing the compiler from packages found somewhere on the net. text/html 2017-06-29T10:29:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/other?rev=1498732188&do=diff Other stuff Being miscellaneous notes. * Windows Remote Desktop Client * Really doing internationalisation * Resoling Blundstone boots text/html 2014-06-01T20:23:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/python?rev=1401654224&do=diff Python Cookies and xmlrpclib Tracking cookies when using xmlrpclib.Transport. Mercurial Bugzilla extension Notes on the Mercurial Bugzilla extension. text/html 2014-04-29T14:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/really_doing_internationalisation?rev=1398781830&do=diff Internationalisation is harder than you think Making your software work in different languages isn't easy. Visiting Madrid in April 2014, I tried to buy a ticket at Sol station for a Madrid commuter train, Renfe Cercanías. OK, so the ticket machine's initial display is in Spanish, and my Spanish is pretty much non-existent. But look! There's a helpful button that looks like you can change the interface language. text/html 2017-06-29T10:49:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/resoling_blundstone_boots?rev=1498733349&do=diff Resoling Blundstone boots I have a pair of Blundstone 550 boots. Purchased in Alice Springs when my previous shoes fell to pieces, I wore them every day for years until the soles had nearly worn smooth. In particular the heels had worn badly on one side. At this point you start thinking about getting them re-soled. And everyone, Blundstone included, will tell you this can't be done. text/html 2014-09-16T08:39:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/software?rev=1410856798&do=diff Software Being software that I'm working on, have worked on or forgotten about. AnthillOS Continuous integration manager. Android Notes on Android development. Python Notes on Python development. GCC 3.3 on CentOS and std::money_put_w Mysterious link failure with GCC 3.3. EmacsErrors Notes on troubles with GNU Emacs. text/html 2016-02-05T12:44:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/sogodovecotldapandgroups?rev=1454676263&do=diff SOGo, LDAP group and Dovecot shared IMAP folders I've wasted a fair amount of time recently on shared IMAP folders. IMAP shared folder ACLs and SOGo Work has a company SOGo instance. This is backed by a LDAP directory running on OpenLDAP and a Dovecot IMAP server. text/html 2025-12-18T11:24:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/start?rev=1766057061&do=diff Ceci n'est pas un blog This isn't a blog. It's more like my public notepad. Bits of this and that which someone else might one day find useful. What's here? * Software. * Hardware. * Linux stuff. * AIX stuff. My Mercurial AIX packages are here. * Other stuff. * A few talks I have given or text/html 2007-11-27T10:09:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/synching_with_the_sony_ericsson_k550i?rev=1196158186&do=diff Synching with the Sony Ericsson K550i from Linux My old Sony Ericsson T630 has, poor thing, found a watery grave at the bottom of the River Cherwell. Its replacement is a Sony Ericcson K550i. I had my contacts list from the old phone backup up to my laptop using text/html 2012-05-09T10:25:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/talks?rev=1336559146&do=diff Talks ACCU Conference talks Talks I've given at one or other ACCU Conference. * 2008. [To Distribute Or Not To Distribute: How to know your DVCS from your CVCS] with Russel Winder. A look at the version control scene, focusing on the the wonderful new world of Distributed Version Control. I cover Mercurial, Russel covers Bazaar. * 2011. [DVCS Under the Bonnet]. A look at the internal workings of two popular Distributed Version Control systems, text/html 2008-08-27T14:51:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/topbar?rev=1219848716&do=diff * Tech stuff * Software * AnthillOS * Hardware * Linux * Acer 5051AWXMi laptop * Sync with K550i * Dialup with K550i * AIX * AIX packages text/html 2008-04-28T20:25:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/touran?rev=1209414348&do=diff No Longer For Sale: '54 reg VW Touran I had a car for sale. But it is now sold. Thanks for looking here, anyway. text/html 2011-06-17T11:25:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/typing_czech_on_uk_keyboard?rev=1308309921&do=diff Typing Czech characters on a UK keyboard under KDE So, here I am using KDE on Debian systems and intermittently trying to acquire a smattering of Czech. Czech uses the Roman alphabet, but has some accented characters. I want to be able to type these characters from my text/html 2007-06-01T17:12:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/vaio_vgn-a497xp_disc_change?rev=1180717954&do=diff Change the hard drive on a Sony Vaio VGN-A497XP I recently had occasion to change the hard drive on work's Sony Vaio VGN-A497XP. Google turned up a useful guide at here, but the original page is now gone and we're left with the archive on the Wayback Machine. text/html 2016-08-15T08:43:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/virtualmailboxeswitheximanddovecot?rev=1471250620&do=diff Virtual mailboxes on Debian Squeeze with Exim4 and Dovecot You know how it is. Your little mail host has just sat there for a long while, slowly accreting a user here and a user there. They are all full users on the machine, so they have logins and everything, and text/html 2023-05-28T10:49:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/whoami?rev=1685270955&do=diff Who is this, anyway? I'm Jim Hague. That's me, on the right. [ My picture ] I'm based in Oxford. That's Oxford, as in ancient city of learning athwart the Thames, in England. The city boasts two universities. I am nothing to do with either of them. I write software. Like a lot of programmers, I get paid for doing this during the day, and don't get paid for doing it at other times. In non-techie company I call myself a software engineer. If you're looking for someone like me, my CV is text/html 2012-06-21T13:41:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/windows_remote_desktop_client?rev=1340286099&do=diff Using Windows Remote Desktop Client with authentication I've just wasted a morning trying to work out why every Linux or Android RDP client I tried would connect to a VirtualBox remote display quite happily, but the standard Windows client failed with 'Error Code 5' and dark mutterings about being low on virtual memory. text/html 2009-03-15T14:52:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/wireless?rev=1237128732&do=diff Free 2x wireless PCI cards, and a wireless access point. These are 802.11b, last generation wireless kit, so have a maximum speed of 11Mbps. Manuals and drivers included. [Picture of items] text/html 2007-03-10T17:33:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/wrt54gl?rev=1173547987&do=diff Adventures with a Linksys WRT-54GL I needed to beef up my home wireless setup recently, and rearrange the domestic network generally. I got a Linksys WRT-54GL. It's now the home internet gateway, I've replaced the original firmware with OpenWRT. I was attracted by its package range and general Debian-like package flexibility. text/html 2012-01-06T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://lunch.org.uk/xmlrpccookies?rev=1325871666&do=diff Cookies and XML-RPC You're using the xmlrpclib stuff to access Bugzilla over XML-RPC. But there's a problem. Bugzilla requires you to log in first, and then sets a login cookie which you must return on all subsequent operations. The solution is to create a