Archive for July, 2005
Scumbags
Some scumbag broke in to this server last week. I knew about one drupal exploit (in the comment code) but since only registered users (which I vet) can use that I thought I was okay. Didn’t know about the xmlrpc.php exploit
Anyhow, box rebuilt from scratch, everything upto date and all important services [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2005 under Linux, Linux Rants.
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DTV part 2
Wow! After a few teething troubles (like how on earth to tune it and use it) the DTV is working perfectly - all off a tiny 6″ aerial too. I’ve
Posted: July 20th, 2005 under Linux, My setup.
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DTV
Well tomorrow I should be the proud owner of one of a
Posted: July 19th, 2005 under Linux.
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Some reading material
Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment (2nd edition) arrived today. The definitive Unix programming book (so I”m told). It even has a dilbert cartoon on the front
It is the
Posted: July 18th, 2005 under Linux.
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Gallery
I have finally found time to finish off installing
Posted: July 16th, 2005 under Life.
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Machines
I have a fair few machines at home which ”ve written up here for the sake of it. In a few months I’ll be purchasing my first new home machine (firewall replacement not withstanding) for quite some time. All in order to play
Posted: July 15th, 2005 under PC.
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Working from home
I’ve been lucky enough to have been able to work from home the last day and a half. I get so much more work done when I can sit down and stand a good chance of not being disturbed. Yesterday was particularly nice since it was “read nagios documentation” day. In glorious [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2005 under Life, Linux.
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Phonetic alphabet - by open source distribution
The other day at work, I thought wouldn’t it be cool (read “sad”) to have a phonetic alphabet which instead of using the standard “alpha”, “foxtrot” names, used open source distributions instead. So here it is (currently missing decent distros for letters “J” and “Q”):
A is for Arch
B is for BSD
C is for Caldera
D is [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2005 under Linux.
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Terrorist scum
Given todays events - the cowardly bombing of London, I have to write my thoughts on this.
If you want to change what people are doing, bombing them is not going to work unless you are very big and they are very few. I think America’’s handling of 9/11 will cause them to become a [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2005 under Life, Life Rants.
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Back from holiday
Well I’ve been back from holiday for some time now, but just catching up on things. Photos will be up in a little while and normal service maybe resumed.
Interesting driving in America, apart from managing to press the large brake pedal as if it were a clutch (think emergency stop) twice within about a minute [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2005 under Life.
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