superduper.net : Sam's blog

I know its already been posted in a million location but I thought its worth mentioning that lenny has arrived! Well done to everyone who worked hard for so long on this release. I have to say that I did very little personally to make this release happen but am looking to increase my involvement in the future.

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:40 | site-updates | # | TB | 2 comment(s)

Tessa and I just got back from 2 weeks in Mozambique. You can see the photos we took here. We stayed with Olly and Hermione in Maputo and they hired a monster of a truck to drive up the coast and visit some of the most incredible beaches and islands. We also spent a couple of days down in Swaziland and stayed on a game reserve where the Rhinos literally walk through the camp site! All in all a serious break from London and a great experience.

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:18 | site-updates | # | TB | 0 comment(s)

After 5 years of hosting in the Bay Area superduper.net is now being hosted back home in England. The new machine is an IBM eserver with RAID1 and LVM on a pair of SCSI drives.

Thanks to matt for finding this machine super cheap on eBay and for Simon for hosting my box for the last 5 years.

Currently the machine is in the server room at my office so I'm currently looking for cheap colo in london.

I took the opportunity to reinstall etch as I moved to the new box and also finally ditched me bespoke iptables scripts in favour of shorewall.

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:08 | site-updates | # | TB | 3 comment(s)

Just got back from a week in Morzine. I didn't have time to take many pictures but a couple of them show the sheer amount of snow the fell during the week. Check out the snow cave, which was build by Jamie, Perter and Jack to hold all 11 of us and a pot on hot wine.

On one day I came back from the slopes to find over a foot of snow built up against the front door.

Apart from snow we had an incredible place to stay with such luxuries as our own sauna and hot hub! And a fully stocked liqueur cabinet. Lots of nights playing racing demon and snapscat, including the last night on which I actually managed to win (thanks mostly to Jo going home early).

We stayed on the far side of the Les Gets mountain where we shared a chair lift with a few other chalets. This meant the on powder days (which were every day!) we always got first tracks down the runs that lead to our house. On most days we have first tracks on two different black runs and tree runs for a good hour before most others arrived to destroy our virgin powder. There was also a nice snow park just over the peak towards Les Gets but due to the amount of powder that fell it was only open on one day. This meant I was stuck on small kickers. I'm starting to really nail bigger backside 180s (about time!) but still not consistent 360. Something for Les 2 Alpes in the summer.

Also, the reason this post update is a little late is that superduper.net moved location while I was away and for various reasons was down for almost a week :( Enough for the my mail to start bouncing, so sorry to anyone who got a bounce. Time to re-subscribe to all those debian lists that don't tolerate bounces.

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:29 | site-updates | # | TB | 2 comment(s)

Today I moved both my private and my public CVS repositories over to SVN. All modules, along with their history, are now available via svn://superduper.net and viewcvs is now setup to browse SVN rather then CVS.

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:22 | site-updates | # | TB | 3 comment(s)

I just installed openid plugin for pyblosxom. This means you can now post to my blog using and OpenID server. In plain old english that means you can use your live journal account to post comments.

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:38 | site-updates | # | TB | 0 comment(s)

For more that a year now I've been thinking I should ditch my homemade peython blogging system and move to a fully featured onc that actually gets maintained. Yesterday I finally got around to it. I spend the bast part of a day moving to pyblosxom. Installing it was easy (apt-get install pyblosxom) but getting it all configured and importing all my old entries from MySQL took a while. Now you con finally post comments on the stuff I write here!

Pyblosxom is written in python, which doesn't guarantee its greatness, but it helps. It also has tons of plugins, some of which are installed here already. Notably the booklist plugin allows people to see what I'm reading, what I've read, and what I thought of each book. It also pulls cover images direct from amazon. Very cool.

So, the upshot is that there should be a lot more postings to this blog coming up. Since the last port was well over a year ago I can't really get any worse at updating it. I'm going to try and blog more about what I'm doing with GNU/linux as well as stuff going on in my life. I'm also planning to turn my hand rolled photo gallery into a pyblosxom plugin.

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:32 | site-updates | # | TB | 3 comment(s)

I spent a bit more time looking at CSS this week and gave the site a little revamp. You may notice some tricks from Paul Sowden, Nicholas Theodorakis and Eric Meyer. The site now uses a little bit of javascript to change CSS styles and store the selection in a cookie. If you have cookies disabled you will always get the default style, sorry.

The photo section has also been improved with lots of whiz-bang stuff. Images will appear to load faster thanks to some javascript preloading. Next feature is to make a javascript slideshow that doesn't need a page reload simply to change the current image.

Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:24 | site-updates | # | TB | 0 comment(s)

We finally got fed up of clicking on the warning dialog boxes and got a valid SSL cert. Try visiting the webmail link above to check that you browser supports it. The certificate only valid for the domain name superduper.net so be sure to address the machine as in you browser or IMAP/SSL client.

Outlook users, please let me know how this works out, you shouldn't see any warning messages regarding the certificate anymore.

Mon, 14 Jul 2003 02:53 | site-updates | # | TB | 0 comment(s)

The gallery script has been updated to support many users having images here on superduper. If you have an account on superduper all you need to do is create a directory called gallery inside your ~/public_html directory and populate it with images and descriptions in a similar manor to mine. Then you simple add ?u=youraccountname to the gallery URL above. If people start using it I will provide a page that lists all user galleries on the system.

Mon, 14 Jul 2003 02:29 | site-updates | # | TB | 0 comment(s)

That's right, a brand new webmail version has been installed. IMP version 3 is accessible from the link above and includes all sorts of new features and improvements such a mail filtering, addressbook and more. You can access all you IMAP folders through this interface as well as through any IMAP/SSL client.

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:12 | site-updates | # | TB | 0 comment(s)

Just spend a couple of hours completely redesigning the site. Now it uses all kinds nice xhtml and stylesheet tricks. Sorry to anybody with an old browser but this stuff makes everything so much simpler. Anyone looking for links that used to be on this front page just follows the 'links' link. OK, now back to some real work.

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:04 | site-updates | # | TB | 0 comment(s)