Archive for May, 2008
Quad Electrostatic Speakers
I now have a Hi-Fi in the lounge. And what a Hi-Fi Due to house moves etc (and to cut a long story short), I am currently looking after Rob’s brother’s Quad setup. You can see Rob assembling it and the final setup. The TV is 42″ BTW – it doesn’t look so big any [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2008 under Life.
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libcat.hants.gov.uk
The library enters the 21st century. I went to reserve [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man The Dice Man] as it had been recommended and was told that I could do it all over the web – as well a renewing books. How fabulous! 50p to reserve a book is no problem and it means that I can collect books [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2008 under Life.
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dsa-1571
Or “Oh bugger”. In short, Debian made a slight change to openssl which means that all keys (SSH user and host keys, X509 keys and certs, OpenVPN passwords) have not been sufficiently random for the last few years. This is a _lot_ of effort to correct: * remove all bad ssh keys and regenerate them [...]
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Linux, Linux Rants.
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no dots in cron.d
Just a short entry in case anyone else gets bitten by this one. File in /etc/cron.d are processed according to run-parts convention – this means they must not contain dots. script.live has now been renamed script-live!
Posted: May 12th, 2008 under Linux.
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