General
Mac OS X L2TP VPN to Cisco IOS
Just spent a couple of hours trying to get a Mac OS X laptop connected to a Cisco IOS IPSEC/L2TP server. The existing configuration worked fine for windows and…
Blog
FOSS
OLPC Wireless packet loss
Last week Pia asked me to help her out with her yet to be name Australian OLPC deployment. The deployment involves two remote sites connected by an ADSL WAN…
General
Melbourne Cup Dip2
To quote Justaan: This is what we call the Melbourne Cup Network Effect Melbourne Cup network effect It seems it really is the race that stops the nation.…
General
Disabling "Subscribe to feed" in firefox
At Vquence we do a lot of crawling of various video hosting sites and where possible we like to use APIs or RSS feeds instead of page scraping. A semi-recent…
FOSS
Getting your key into debian-maintainers using jetring
I'm currently going through the process of becoming a Debian Maintainer so that I can upload Annodex packages without bugging one of the DDs I know. Thanks to…
General
Firefox popup blocking
Wouldn't it make more sense for firefox to allow popups based on the destination site rather than on the source? For example most popups I click on are for…
Programming
bzr-svn and svn revisions
I was updating an svn branch today using bzr, thanks to bzr-svn, and I wanted to know what svn revision I was at. You can easily see the bzr revision by…
Sysadmin
Hardy, exim4, SMTP-AUTH and LDAP... (or debian openssl causes pain)
As most people will know yesterday caused a lot of people a lot of pain as they ran around replacing SSH keys and SSL certificates. While running around fixing…
Sysadmin
Hardy and password locking
In gutsy the above would simply lock the account by placing an ! in front of the passwd in your /etc/shadow file. In hardy it now also sets the account as…
FOSS
Sorting in Mutt
A couple of days ago I discovered the following mutt config option. This means you get the usual threading but that a thread is sorted by the date the last…