Recently I went to The Victory with some mates and watched as they ate an epic burger in front of it, so when I went back recently I had no choice but to investigate!

I opted for the bacon and cheese accessories, of course, and it comes with a massive portion of straight cut fries on the side and a small pot of bbq sauce too!

The Royal Pavilion Tavern, aka Pav Tav, is a pretty popular student venue in the evenings, but lunch time, on a Saturday, it’s mostly OAPs, but they do beer and a burger for £4.99 so it had to be tried, especially as I’m working today!

I opted for the Chilli Burger with Cheese and a beer, at £5.59, and upgraded to curly fries for an additional 69p, so all it all it came to £6.28, and of course soda and lime instead of a beer 🙂

It’s a Friday and traditionally everyone goes to the pub for lunch as a precursor to what will be a fantastic weekend! A new Wetherspoons opened up near us recently and I was looking forwards to trying a Gourmet Burger from them as I’d had one of their normal burgers before and quite enjoyed it!

It’s a 6oz burger, made from British beef, and from their description:

<br /> Topped with two bacon slices and a Stilton, Shropshire blue and spring onion sauce. Includes six beer-battered whole onion rings.<br />

We decided to go and watch the football at the Wahoo bar yesterday and I saw their beer and a burger for £4.99 offer and couldn’t say no!

For £4.99 you get a burger on a white bun, loaded with salad, gerkins, 2 hash browns and a side portion of chips. You also get a drink, either a bottle, something on draft or a soft drink, I opted for a pint of Kronenburg!

All Dell DRACs come with a default account set up as root / calvin which is a huge security risk if left!

The web interface doesn’t let you change the password but the firmware does when you boot the server.

A second way to change the password is with the racadm tool, if installed, at the command line! This means you don’t have to reboot that precious production server!

In DRAC 4, the first index slot is root by default. In DRAC 5 and 6, index 1 is Administrator, index 2 is root.

I needed to roll back an SVN commit done recently to an init script for one of our daemons, it’s a very easy process!

First we need to see what the latest revision number of the file that we want to roll back is

<br /> Chill:files idimmu$ svn info slee<br /> Path: slee<br /> Name: slee<br /> URL: https://svn.idimmu.net/msu/trunk/puppet/modules/jnetxslee/files/slee<br /> Repository Root: https://svn.idimmu.net/msu<br /> Repository UUID: 573313b0-15b8-499c-acf0-a5a26a3c7166<br /> Revision: 1517<br /> Node Kind: file<br /> Schedule: normal<br /> Last Changed Author: idimmu<br /> Last Changed Rev: 1256<br /> Last Changed Date: 2010-08-12 10:51:15 +0100 (Thu, 12 Aug 2010)<br /> Text Last Updated: 2010-08-12 10:50:57 +0100 (Thu, 12 Aug 2010)<br /> Checksum: 8940fdf3ed6ee8281b94f55c2fe7880a<br />

I want to have a set of users on my Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx box managed by MySQL, rather than LDAP for a change which means delving in to the sexy world that is libpam-mysql!

As ever, the first thing that we need are packages! Remember when installing mysql-server to set a strong root MySQL password. As we’re managing user accounts in MySQL we need to really make sure everything is locked down tight!

I’ve recently needed to add disk usage quotas to a server in order to limit how much data users can store so as not to affect the quality of service for other users.

Linux has a method called quota which can help you do this.

Ubuntu provides some packaged tools which let you manage quotas

apt-get install quota

To enable quotas on a partition the first step is to edit the /etc/fstab entry for the partition and append usrquota to it so the kernel knows to manage that partition using quotas.

I’m playing about with the Unique Article Wizard plugin for WordPress (for a friend, not for this site!!!) and there’s an obvious problem where all of the articles need their slashes to be stripped. It looks like a serious case of magic quote paranoia!

A look at the plugin code makes article_mods.php the obvious candidate for tweaking:

Change lines 370 – 384 from

<br /> $uawarticle_id = wp_update_post(array (<br /> 'ID' => $pageposts[0]->post_id,<br /> 'post_author' => $uawuser_id,<br /> 'post_title' => stripslashes($title),<br /> 'post_content' => stripslashes($article . "\n\n\n\n" . $_REQUEST['resource_box']."\n\ncategories: ".$_REQUEST['keywords']) ,<br /> 'post_excerpt' => stripslashes(stripslashes($description)),<br /> 'post_type' => 'post',<br /> 'post_status' => $uawstatus,<br /> 'post_modified_date' => date("Y-m-d H:i:s"),<br /> 'post_modified_date_gmt' => gmdate("Y-m-d H:i:s"),<br /> 'post_category' => array (<br /> $uawcategory_id<br /> ),<br />