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Well, that’s another LDAP bug squashed. Well two in fact. I was initially looking at and LDAP assertion failure which I saw whilst testing. I commented on Debian bug #399849 that I suspected it was due to the fairly rigid parsing of URI. Since I had altered the file since testing, I didn’t spend time [...]

Ah, that old chestnut. Well in planning my new setup, I need to come up with a naming scheme. I have an old naming scheme, but there was no big pattern to it (basically mythological creatures). Ideally I’d like something with several sub-classes to it, e.g. DMZ, test, etc. I’ve so far seen: famous computers [...]

Well I’ve RMAd the graphics card and obtained a refund, now I just need to see what happens with ATI’s DX10 cards and await the new Nvidia cards mentioned for the first time here. This is good, I was probably going for the med-range DX10 from nvidia when released. 8600Ultra perhaps looks about on the [...]

Well today I backported libnss-ldap 251-7.1 from etch to sarge and then added this to /etc/libnss-ldap.conf # must exclude openldap from slapd to avoid TLS/SSL issues (debian bug #381788) # exclude root too nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,openldap Since later versions change the defaults, I’m also going to hardcode the timeouts now: # Search timelimit timelimit 10 # [...]

Well I’ve just had nastiest problem for a long time. Obviously it also comes at a time when I don’t really want an interesting problem to look at. I’d been rolling out a basebuild to various servers which includes LDAP integration (for ssh, sudo, libc6). All was going swimmingly. Then I upgraded the LDAP server [...]

As I mentioned the other day, I’m going to be purchasing some monitors to replace my old trustworthy Iiyama visionmaster pro 450. My normal way of working many years ago was: 1600×1200 netscape or emacs full height at right hand side about 2/3 screen width three xterms arranged vertically down the left hand side This [...]

What a marvellous site diynot.com is. My washer/dryer decided to stop heating when acting as a dryer the other day. A bit of hunting around on the site and there were three things possible: heater element broken thermal cutout activated condenser filter blocked I also found out that if you have two heat settings (mine [...]

Well, one week in and I guess I should at least _try_ to make some resolutions. So, here are they are (in no particular order): do more exercise I was at least playing squash once a week with Neil when we both worked at the same company, but then we both left and since we [...]