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Running Azureus as a windows service revisited

This is a follow-up to my 2006 post. It’s a shame I’m not using Windows any more and I can’t figure this out for OS X, but the old post continues to get hits, so I thought I would neaten things up a bit!

I haven’t completely tested this system with more recent versions of Azureus/Vuze, [...]

New netgear print server, easier said than done

After the failure of a JetDirect server on one of our workgroup printers, I purchased a NetGear PS101 mini print server to replace it. We have had joy with a similar D-link machine on another printer, so I was confident this would work.

It did work, but not without some fiddling around.

To start with, the server [...]

A solution to a Quickbooks problem

At Wongutha CAPS, where I am the sysadmin-by-default, our accounts people use Quickbooks 2002.

At the end of last year, we upgraded our network to a whole bunch of lovely new desktops and a super-duper Windows 2003 server (replacing our old NT4 server). Thanks to Google search and Microsoft TechNet I have been able to come [...]

Alternate stylesheets

I am currently running three sites.

Not being one to reinvent the wheel, I am running them all with Wordpress, Sandbox and Unsleepable for Sandbox, a combination I find manageable and appealing.

Unfortunately, when everything is much the same, the same problems will appear as well! Check out the following screen shots of CastletownChemist.Com under firefox [...]

Running Azureus as a windows service

This post has been superceded. Please check out Running Azureus as a windows service revisited.

I am in the process of writing another howto.

Actually, all I am doing is documenting a process that I went through to get Azureus running as a windows service. I really wanted to be able to have (down+up)loads working even when [...]

Address Protection HOWTO

Please note, this is not about spam filtering. Filtering is like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. Having said that, it is often necessary, but luckily can be done when it is.

This document is about protecting your email address so that it does not get into the hands of those who would [...]

Mmmm, delicious….

OK, online tip #1.

One of my great finds of the last year has been an online bookmarking service called “delicious”, which you will find at http://del.icio.us

Anyone familiar will this sort of thing will tell you that there are a number of similar services around, but this is the one I found first, and even after [...]

A quick html / js tip (as recorded in my palm’s MemoDB)

How to use External Javascripts to keep links etc the same over various pages in a web site

2005-04-12

Create Javascript with appropriate text

function bottom_links() { document.write(’<p>’); document.write(’<a href=”#top”>Top</a> ‘); document.write(’| ‘); }

Save the file as file.js

Import the JS file into your html file

Type the following into the <head> section of [...]