Archive for March, 2008
IPv6
More geeky stuff, I’m now starting to play with IPv6 (next generation addressing scheme for the Internet) courtesy of SixXS. Nothing is really “live” yet as I need to keep the initial IPv4-IPv6 tunnel up for a week before I have enough credit to request a subnet.
Credit? Yes, SixXS have a really neat [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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Firefox 3 - security madness
Dear firefox developers. Could you _please_ rethink the current braindead approach to security? Security is important, but the current design is diabolical. I realise that this sometime changes (the windows version seemed better last time I used it). The rant below applies to the latest version on Ubuntu Hardy. For example, [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2008 under Linux, Linux Rants.
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Sharing printers with CUPS
Well now that the wifi is sorted out (ish) for the time being, I’m moving onto printing. Recently both my desktop (at home) and laptop (at work) have started having issues printing - printers seem to accept the request but just ditch it (as if it is incomplete or scrambled).
As part of the diagnosis, [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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WPA, Xen and other problems
Today I finally encrypted my wi-fi link. It’s always been locked down by MAC address, but that’s pretty weak really.
This unfortunately has been rather involved, firstly the changes to hostap (which I use to turn my wireless card into a wireless hostspot:
- WPA (0×1) and WPA2 (0×2)
wpa=3
wpa_passphrase=not in my blog
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
- wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
Easy enough, though [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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Know it all
Just had a fab weekend when some friends came round and visisted. Little chilly outside (it snowed a bit) to stay outside for long, but we managed to fly some kits (after spending quite some time untangling them - kite tails seem to serve a secondary purpose as something for all the string to catch [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Life.
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md raid tips
The other day one of my Linux software RAID arrays dropped out - oddly only one of the two dropped out - I say odd since I have two arrays, both spanning the same disks (md0 is hda5, hdd5 and is the main area; md1 is hda1, hdd1 and is used for booting only).
I ran [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Linux.
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TV
Finally, some decent stuff (not repeats) on TV. New series starting or started recently:
ER (I think I might stop watching it, it’s become more drama than funny now)
House series 4 - 20th March, 9pm, Five (just need to watch series 3 first…)
Desperate Housewives - 26th March, C4? or was it E4 or More4?
Grey’s [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2008 under Life.
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Meringue
Well the one thing that worked out well these weekend was my third attempt at meringues. The first was many years ago, the second rather more recently - I made the mistake of following the recipe and discovered that the setting was far too high (and that a fan assisted oven is probably distinctly [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2008 under Life.
Comments: 1
24:00 pm
I’ve about finished watching 24 season one (it’s not really my cup of tea - bit mainstream, but it is well done), however one thing that really bugs me is their clock - it’s nearly 11 o’clock at night in the bit I’m up to and yet the clock says 10:59:59. Earlier it was [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2008 under Life Rants.
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iRiver S10 sorting
Or rather lack of. My shiny new toy has one astoundingly bad bug - it doesn’t sort filenames - at all. So albums often play in a random order - track 4, then track 10, then track 1 (if that’s the order they happen to be in the filesystem).
To be honest I find [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2008 under Life, Life Rants, Linux, My setup.
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