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Upgraded to Firefox 89 this morning and I have to say that I do not like the new appearance! Within 10 minutes I’d found a few articles about how to customise and it make it look a bit like the previous version. For comparison, this is Firefox 88. And this is Firefox 89. A …
After doing a fresh install of Windows 10 and updating to version 1909 I noticed that even if I used hibernate instead of sleep, it would wake up in the middle of the night and even sometimes just seconds after it went to sleep. It’s now been two days since I made the …
Usually on a primary nameserver for a number of domains, you shouldn’t be using the local nameserver for your DNS lookups. The reason for this is that if a domain is transferred away from the nameserver without your knowledge, any local lookups for that domain will continue …
I recently changed my server from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7 and in the process decided that to avoid having to upgrade everything later, installing PHP 7.2 before migrating the sites would be a better option than staying with the default PHP 5.4. This was a good idea - mostly. It …
3 years ago, I posted about getting DBD::mysql to build on OSX 10.6 - it seems the same thing works on Mavericks (10.9) as well! # Failed test 'use DBD::mysql;' # at t/00base.t line 18. # Tried to use 'DBD::mysql'. # Error: Can't load …
I’ve been attempting to build all the dependencies for Dancer on CentOS 6.5 and things just kept going wrong. Several of the modules complained about needing perl >= 5.006 even though CentOS 6.5 comes with Perl 5.10. [mockbuild@build6 ~]$ cpan2rpm Test::Simple -- …
I decided to remove a lot of the read ebooks from my library but wanted to back them up first, especially the ones that weren’t purchased via iTunes. iBooks on Mavericks had “imported” them all from iTunes and as a result I couldn’t just right click on …
I’ve just been building up a new server with CentOS 6.4 and noticed that cpan2rpm wouldn’t work for some Perl modules. The error you get is as follows. Metadata retrieval Can't locate object method "interpolate" via package "Pod::Text" at …
I’ve not long finished reading Shadowmagic by John Lenahan - it was free on the iTunes Store at some point in the past but I can’t remember whether it was a Starbucks promo or if it was just the free book of the week. It’s got magic and plenty of humour and I …
A couple of friends mentioned they were having a look at http://www.digitalocean.com/ as a VPS provider so I thought I’d take a quick look myself. The signup process is painless, just an email address and a password required and you’re into a control panel that is …