Links for 2006-06-30
Friday, June 30th, 2006mehhhh (via Taras)
Archive for June, 2006
Links for 2006-06-29
Friday, June 30th, 2006liverpool.jpg
RFC 4255 – Using DNS to Securely Publish Secure Shell (SSH) Key Fingerprints
StreetWars: Nice idea, but a) I unfortunately don’t live near enough, and b) it strikes me that fake guns on the tube are liable to get you perforated by the Metropolitan Police.
lug.org.uk is dead (again)
Sunday, June 25th, 2006Hi,
You may be looking at this because you have a web site or mailing list hosted by lug.org.uk and you are wondering where it went.
At just after 01:00 GMT today, Sunday 25th June, the server suffered some form of hardware hiccup. The following was seen on its console:
hda: lost interrupt
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == [...]
“e107 website system” — please die in a chemical fire
Saturday, June 24th, 2006Earlier today I noticed something odd in the Exim mainlog on a lug.org.uk machine, so went hunting. I found a user’s website that uses something called the “e107 website system.”
This appears to have a feature whereby an existing news item on the site can be emailed to an arbitrary email address with arbitrary extra [...]
Dear Lazyweb, help me set up my audio
Saturday, June 24th, 2006In times past, when I had a desktop computer, I’d always have to be in that one place to use it, so attaching speakers to it was a reasonable way to play music while I worked. These days I only have a laptop for my personal computing needs, and all my data is on [...]
Kevin Smith — blog spammer
Thursday, June 15th, 2006(via Ed Falk)
This is deeply uncool. I’m hoping that Kevin just hasn’t realised the problem here (what if everyone did this to promote their products, as spammers promote their penis pills).
Unfortunately given my recent stance on Rob Levin’s abusive behaviour, in order to be consistent I now need to boycott Clerks II, which is [...]
New fileserver for home
Sunday, June 11th, 2006Recently my fileserver, becks, was not only getting filled to capacity but was also undergoing some severe performance problems. It’s by no means a poorly-specced machine (not for home use anyway) but my use of rsnapshot has grown so much in the last 6 months that it was no longer up to the job.
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Chavs are people too?
Monday, June 5th, 2006Mair, you could recruit more members by placing flyers in the jewellery section of Argos catalogues.
BitFolk