Archive for January 5th, 2006

“Galloway joins Big Brother house” — BBC

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Galloway joins Big Brother house, thus quashing any promise that he was ever a serious politician. Seriously what is a member of parliament of Great Britain doing in a reality TV show? Does he not have more important things to get on with? Should he not be busy working for his constituents […]

“The following signatures couldn’t be verified”

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

The last two days I’ve been getting the following breakage email from the daily updates script on one of my etch Xen domains:
/etc/cron.daily/local-apt:
W: GPG error: http://admin.curacao.strugglers.net etch
Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified
because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY
010908312D230C5F
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
On further investigaton it […]

initrds suck ass

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Do initrds have any use at all apart from:

Distribution kernels where the packager has no idea what hardware the kernel will need to run on
Kernels intended to work on a large variety of machines without modification (really just another variant of the above use)
Unusual setups like running your root filesystem inside a filesystem that needs […]