Cricket and RRD files 0003

I came across a sporadic problem with Cricket when adding a new item to monitor. I set everything up happily, and then went to the cricket page after I was sure some data had been gathered. To my surprise, I was greeted with “Current values not available: RRD file version 0003 not supported on this

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Gamerang: Not Your Aussie’s Boomerang

Usually, with a boomerang, you throw it just the right way, and it will swim across the air and arch back to you. Well, if you are good. If you are like me, you might either get it hung up on a bush or have it land near you. 🙂 Anyhow, my childhood experiences with

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Windows XP Slipstream

Ages ago I used the bink.nu steps to create a bootable Windows XP CDROM which had been slipstreamed with the latest service pack. Since then, I have used that CD a number of times to restore systems, build systems, etc. I noticed, however, that the site no longer has the steps available. Primarily because the

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