The ongoing struggle

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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.

Hi,
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 == […]

Earlier 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 […]

In 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 […]

(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 […]

Recently 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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Mair, you could recruit more members by placing flyers in the jewellery section of Argos catalogues.