Welcome to PreshWeb

Thanks for visiting PreshWeb, my own little corner of the web.

This site contains some permanent content, but a lot of new content that I create gets posted to my Wordpress-powered blog, and on my wiki for technical notes etc.

Linux Stuff - I've become a great fan of Linux and Open Source software in general, using it extensively both at work and at home. In this section of my site, I'm going to gather together a lot of useful information, guides, scripts and tools etc. Basically, I want to give back whatever I can to the Open Source community.

My online Photo Albums - I've got quite a few photos online already, and I'll be adding more as I take them, and more older photos as I get time to scan / upload them.

Latest Blog Posts

• *Yoink* Om nom nom?
  

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• Custom Bash completions for lazy bastards
  

  At $work, we have a log server, where the current day’s logs from a given machine are stored in, e.g. /logs/machinename/year/month/day/. In a moment of yak shaving, I added a function to my .profile, named cdmachinelogs to allow me t

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• Newsflash: America not centre of world
  

  KFC advertisement in Australia sparks race row

  The Australian arm of the fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has had to withdraw an advertisement after accusations of racial insensitivity.

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  When the advertisement reached Americ

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• A little windy? Metcheck fail
  

  Hmm, Metcheck seem to think it’s going to get a little breezy next week:

  Forecasting 305mph winds on Wednesday night? That would be rather far off the wrong end of the Beaufort scale, and I don’t think my fence would take kind

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• Blackberry Bold Christmas wallpapers (480×320)
  

  I recently upgraded from a Blackberrry Curve to a Blackberry Bold 9000, which has a higher screen resolution (480×320), so I decided to re-do the wallpapers I resized & cropped and shared last year, and figured I may as well share

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• OpenDNS vs Google ? speed comparison
  

  I read a Twitter post earlier mentioning Google’s public DNS service, and suggesting that it could displace the popular OpenDNS

  I thought it would be interesting to do a performance comparison between Google and OpenDNS, to see how th

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• Microsoft store product identification fail
  

  I was glancing at the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 page on the Microsoft store site to show a picture of my new keyboard to a friend (hardware being the one thing Microsoft actualy do well, and spotted the following at the bott

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• *Could be* cattle-class? Bwahaha?
  

  Hah. “Tube passengers may face “cattle-class” conditions if improvements to the London Underground are delayed or scrapped, a business group has warned..

  Um – they already are cattle-class, at best, during rush hour

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• SSH and rsync on Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini v2
  

  A couple of months back, I acquired a Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini v2 for backups – I’m planning to give it to a friend to plug in, so I’ll have a little self-contained box to back up to.

  The drive is a pretty stylish-looking

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• ?White-label? Nominet tag? Not quite?
  

  I still receive occasional newsletters from Heart Internet, after trying out their free web hosting a long time ago (actually, I seem to recall it being a plan to mirror some content there, and never actually getting round to it).

  Anyway, t

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• Looking for Christmas Blackberry wallpapers *already*?
  

  Someone came to my blog yesterday whilst searching for christmas blackberry wallpaper.

  Christmas wallpapers, already? Sheesh, we’re not even half way through October yet, FFS. Why do Christmas preparations seem to get earlier and ea

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• Jack Thompson is a fucking idiot
  

  Jack Thompson, the muppet who made money-grabbing attempts to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/25/100m_grand_theft_auto_lawsuit/">sue game producers for producing adult games has now decided to attempt to sue Facebook as he’s unh

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• Configure CPAN.pm to use sudo to install
  

  I prefer to run CPAN.pm as a normal user and have it use sudo just for the actual installation, rather than running tests etc as root.

  I have an annoying habit of forgetting the option names , so I’m posting this here for my reference

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• New Jabber/XMPP account
  

  I’ve been meaning to do it for ages, but Google’s (admittedly brief) downtime yesterday pushed me enough to actually do it – I’ve set up my own Jabber server, so my new Jabber ID is davidp@preshweb.co.uk – feel

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• Texas Instruments DMCA abuse over signing keys
  

  Paul Dixon, owner of pastebin.com, received a DMCA takedown order from Texas Instruments, relating to a pastebin post that a user had submitted to pastebin.com, "containing the signing keys for a range of Texas Instruments calculators

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