today I ordered a powermac G5 .. the specs:

- Dual G5 2.5Ghz PowerPC G5
- .5 GB RAM PC3200 (400MHz)
- 160 GB HD Serial ATA; 7200 rpm
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL with 256MB GDDR3 SDRAM

and of course, I need to order

- 1 GB RAM PC3200 (400MHz)

To go with it.

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A few days ago (16th) I decided to get a new Laser mouse, of course the only one on the market right now is the Logitech MX1000

I was very please with it until last night wen it suddenly stopped working .. the indicator lights for the battery just went dark, no response from the mouse at all .. I even try to leave it on the charge overnight .. nothing, still dead.

So I went to PCWORLD this morning to try and exchange it .. just my luck, they ran out of them, but luckily there is another PCWORLD off A48, so i drove a few miles and sure enough, they had 7 of them.

But it was not to be, I got home, plugged it back in, and started to notice the cursor jumped once in a while .. not acceptable
so I returned to the store and got my 3RD MX1000 ..

Let’s hope this one lasts

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About a month ago I decided to drop the Linux Laptop and go for a desktop solution instead.

The initial idea was to build a Athlon 3200+ Linux system, but after thinking about it, I decided it was time for me to give MAC/OSX a try, it had been years sine I owned a MAC (pre-OSX era).

I got a Dual G4 1.4Ghz, 1GB Ram, 120G HD, Ti4600 128B Video, then I put an order for 2 Dell 2005FPW (20.1″).

Today I have received the displays, and the setup is finally complete, and am I ever happy, moving to OSX was a good move, Linux is still my #1 choice for my servers, and nothing else comes close, but for a desktop system, OSX with it’s BSD core has won me over .. I love how everything looks so neat and different programs interact seamlessly together .. and of course having the ability to open a #bash prompt underneath all the gleam and find a *nix core is just great

here is a pic of the complete setup

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I Just completed the game XIII .. and what a great game it was.

You play as Jason Fly, who is a military man who lost his memory, he soon realizes there is allot of people trying to kill him, he has also undergone plastic surgery in order to uncover a plot by a group of 20 people who are keen in taking over the USA.

The whole game has a comic book feel to it, especially the cut scenes .. it was quite pleasant to play .. But the last task, which envolves killing an agent called Mongoose was one of the hardest missions ever, I had to replay it close to 20 times in order to be able to kill the bastard before he killed me
Highly recommend.

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I finally recived my new XBOX

It has a Xecuter 3 chip and a 200GB HD and lots of LEDS

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In order to rename Images from xxxxx.gif to actualdate.gif on Linux (As long as the image have a EXIF info of course)

jhead -n%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S *.jpg

This will rename files matched by *.jpg in the format YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM_SS

(jhead is required to be installed)

I use this format so Coppermine Gallery (http://coppermine.sourceforge.net) can then change the Image description to it’s actuall date using the filename.

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I rarely Use Cpanel server anymore, but we do have a few on the NOC, and they constantly the target of hackers .. so ..

With the Help of Vladimir (Unicorn) .. here is a nice Iptables ruleset for Cpanel based servers.

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Tonight I attended the “South Wales Linux Users Group” (http://www.swlug.org/) meeting.

It was interesting, it happen at a nice coffee shop “A shot in the dark” in Cardiff, it was nice for networking and meeting new friends, but the Beer was lousy :p

Next Meeting: Nov 04 in Swansea

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If you ever ran /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat

to get something like this


[root@mail2 root]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 4830
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 173


After you find and stop the spammer, you now have a mess of email on your QMail queue .. here is a way to remove it

take a “user@domain.com” that is common on the spammed emails (usually the sender) and run this command


grep -R user@domain.com /var/qmail/queue/mess/* | awk -F":" '{print "rm -f " $1}' | sh


That will delete the emails that contain that user@domain .. be very careful with this, a wrong setting and you can be wiping your mailserver clean instead
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I have installed X1000 v3 Linux on my NX7000 Laptop, I mush say Ahmad (http://x1000.bitbuilder.com/) has done a terrific Job.

here is a screenshot.

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