Archive for June, 2003
GallChluiche
Posted on June 11, 2003, under legacy.
Ballsbridge can be a very nice place to work, but ocasionally they have one of these new-fangled soccer matches. It might aswell be military blockade and martial law. Being 30 seconds walk from Landsdown Road definitely sucks right now!.
SAGE-IE monthly talk was last night, Dave Malone gave a great talk on forensics, filled the room again! Donal is looking at alternative locations.
The E-voting list is coming along very well, Meaigs is really putting up the pressure. Good to see!
Phil@rb mailed me today to tell me he got some FreeBSD nut to put c-hey into FreeBSD Ports. I really must start trojaning some of the stuff I maintain that’s in ports ;0
972/1000
Being single again has it’s advantages, I just found out that since I live in Leinster, there is a higher proportion of females to males than any other province. It’s 972 Males to 1000 Females, which of course means every Leinster man should demand his 1.0288 woman.
Take that Munster (998 Men to 1,000 women) and even worse, Connaucht (1,006/1,000) and Ulster (1,024/1000) which have more men than Women! haha!
Bouncy Bouncy
A few months ago, I mailed Bugtraq, not just once, but twice in the same night. Not a brilliant move, for the next 3 days I got a couple of hundred vacation replies and bounce messages from idiot fetchmail users and other silly people who don’t seem to know what the mail from: field is for, and instead bounce to the RFC822 From header, gah!.
In a silly excercise of proving I havn’t learnt a damn thing, I Posted to lkml (it’s been 3 years since that happened!), and again the same thing has happened, bouncy bouncy bounce. Ah well, at least I got a good few useful replies and requests. ArmLinux Chief Russell King also
managed to clear up some information on Vital Systems, the company which made my TrueMobile Router.
After seeing some photos of the boards from Vital Systems, I decided to open my router, to see what it’s looked like. I have photos, which I’ll upload soon, it’s intresting inside, no nice DB9 serial port unfortunately, but quite a few connectors that may be for attaching a serial device, so it looks promising.
I’ve been looking at Movable Type recently, it looks good and Kevin from webgroup is thinking of using it to power BrickNews. I was considering using it for my Blog until I read this:
Note: Starting with version 2.2, there are two storage options for Movable Type: Berkeley DB or MySQL
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If your webhost does provide MySQL support, we recommend using this storage mechanism for added stability.”
WHAT? MySQL more stable than BDB ? These guys are smoking something. No thanks.
Distant Shore
After an evening of Cinema, seeing The Hunted, and an night of banter in Claire (starfish) and Dave (sares)’s place, a morning of a walk from town to Fairview I arrived home at 4:30am to the pleasant surprise of a free copy of Karan Casey’s Distant Shore, signed by Karan, Niall and Robbie.
Niall’s concertina playing really stands out as excellent, it’s been a while since I’ve seen either him, or his brother Cillian, both excellent musicians, but no doubt they’ll be at the Fleadh in August. Another surprise is that one of the tracks includes the vocals of Karen Matheson, excellent stuff.
Summer!
I’ve been bold, It’s been a week and a half since I uddated my Blog, but there are reasons. On Saturday last, RedBrick’s NFS setup decided to crap itself, leaving us with no servers until Tuesday Lunchtime, gah!!! But at least there was good weather.
To make matters slightly more intresting, I decided to go ahead and swap our MTA (the venerable Postfix) for Exim on Thursday, it was on our plans anyway, but I just suddenly felt like doing it. It went surpsingly well, considering the nature of a such a change. All that’s left now for the big move is the migration to IMAP, which is coming in on-schedule, yay!
Today I found myself in teaching music in Bray of all places, filling in for a friend who’s away. Considering I went out there with no instrument, and no idea what I’d be teaching, it went well. There was a piano out there, so I used that, even though I had two Guitar classes, one bouzouiki, one Mandolin and one Banjo. One of the Guitar Pupils was a Belgian lady who joined Comhaltas to pick up Irish Guitar (she can already play Guitar very well), turns out she’s also learning Irish with Gael Linn (her two kids are in a Gaelscoil), so we did the class in Irish, which was fun (Irish with a Belgian Accent can take some getting used to though!).
Today I’m reading “Taking Chances” by John Haigh, who knows, I might even finish this book!