Peter's Blog 3.4.2004

Put bulbs in new ceiling light and one of them..

Put bulbs in new ceiling light and one of them refused to work. Turned out to be loose connector on bayonet. Ran fan with bulbs in and it buzzed. I fiddled with the bulbs a bit and it stopped buzzing, hope the buzz does not return. At top speed the fan is a little unnerving, hope I can sleep underneath it.

Set up ipcheck (http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net/) to..

Set up ipcheck (http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net/) to check if my ip address changes and tell http://dyndns.org about it. The -r option is useful as it tells it to use http://checkip.dyndns.org/ to get the ip address, it doesn't try to parse the routers web based files. I could set this up and check more often without thrashing dyndns's server but it works as it is. ipcheck does not check the Dlink DE624 natively. If I was more public spirited I could find out how and tell the world.

Read here about cron http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/mdrone/cron-howto.html and set up a cron job to check the dns once an hour.

Set up ntp on server as it's clock had drifted a..

Set up ntp on server as it's clock had drifted a few minutes. Seems to work nicely. I was going to do something with the windows Xp clocks until I discovered that they already do it.

Put up ceiling light/fan in bedroom.

Put up ceiling light/fan in bedroom. Bought in B&Q for £20 but wekll worth it. Nice downdraught and very quiet. Roll on summer.