pmsumner

day 14 - your earliest memory.

It comes down to 1 of 2 choices...

1. I was about 8, I was picking flowers for my mum. From our back garden :) She wasn't impressed.
2. Having one of the neighbours' kids stay over for a while and finding it odd having a girl staying with us.

day 15 - your favourite tumblrs.

I don't read any tumblers specifically. However I have come across this one that I find deeply amusing http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/ - Things People Don't Say About Advertising.

day 16 - your views on mainstream music.

I listen to an odd mix of music - most of my radio input is either BBC Radio 1 (Chris Moyles) or Elaine Paige on Sunday, then the occasional thing here and there that comes from elsewhere (telly, t'interweb etc.)

But all things considered, I don't listen to as much new music as I would like to.

My views on music haven't changed much recently. The types of music I like are broad and hugely varied, just ask Jane what my music collection is like :) I don't think any specific music is crap, unworthy or shouldn't be listened to, even if I don't like it myself.

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Since fixing the fan in my old laptop (must remember to find out why the CD drawer isn't opening - note to self), I've had it running in the corner as a server. So far it's an Ubuntu 10.04 server and I have it running:

• apache2 - also including:
  • Tweet Nest(http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/) for me and Jane
  • Tiny Tiny RSS (http://tt-rss.org/) - freeing my from Google Reader
  • RSS Lounge (http://rsslounge.aditu.de/) - evaluating an alternative to TT-RSS
  • Cacti - just monitoring the PC right now
  • MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/) - Why not? No use for it yet.
  • Access to scanner (http://scannerserver.online02.com/)
• avahi / mDNS / zeroconf - In theory should be able to print from iPhone but this only works half the time, think this is a router issue though.
• Remote access to GDM/XDM via VNC
• Firefly / mt-daapd - iTunes-like media server (Needs replacing with something under active development)
• CUPS (http://www.cups.org/) - Print server
• BIND / named (http://www.isc.org/software/bind) - DNS - really must register pmsumner.eu.org again, I liked running that domain
• squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) - Caching proxy
• MySQL - Mainly local databases for Cacti / RSS Lounge / TT-RSS / Tweet Nest etc
• sshd - Remote shell connection

Most of this stuff only available locally, access available remotely to ports 80/22 only and everything runs under non-privileged user accounts. What else can I do.... ? :-)