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I saw a very rare albino penguin at Bristol Zoo. I emailed Linus to ask if we should kill it, and he said no, diversity is good - let it live. I snapped a pic on my phone and also one of Gentoo

I saw a very rare albino penguin at Bristol Zoo. I emailed Linus to ask if we should kill it, and he said no, diversity is good - let it live. I snapped a pic on my phone and also one of Gentoo

Like I do already. Where is Calum?

It's mutual.

A better picture.

Hey, where is this place?. Is it Christiania?

I was in Copenhagen this summer (pictures start at Fri 28th May), and I was so impressed with this system. You could put in a 2 euro piece, take a bike, cycle anywhere, in the cool, fresh, clean air, and wave at all the lovely tall blonde Danish girls while looking cool on your stylishly designed bike.
Then, when you've finished, you just pop it back to a bike rack, and take your money back. However, the cost of drinks there equalled it out. All in all, damn good, I say. Oh, and visit Christiania (sp?) if you can.

I wonder if this propoganda would work?

I wonder if this propoganda would work?

Even got a pic of Stallman

http://moblog.umtstrial.co.uk/

Check out my holiday snaps. (Username Calum, obviously.)

I found one in Moscow too! (Bottom left)

Tell me what you think of my photos

Wow, those are some pretty nice jpegs! I expecially like the ~~~.&!# No carrier

I have an Orange Novatel Merlin card plugged in right now, and it's pretty good. I every wrote a HOWTO in case people were having trouble getting connected, but it just looks like ttyS1 to me. Saves all that faffing around installing drivers for Windows.

Something like this? :)

Pres v2001 Clippy

Sounds a bit like this.

It reminded me of a time when I saw CNN. It was talking about something in Europe, and it had "England" written all over the British Isles, and Ireland. The only European countries with names shown were France, Germany, and Spain. I had to laugh.

Replying to my post - I'd love to see munin stats for that machine.

Linux users can use the dcraw util to convert RAW into TIFF format. It also has a plugin for GIMP which works fine. On my camera though, the RAW files are 6.3Mb, and the TIFFs created with dcraw are 18Mb.

Have a look at my pics, too. :)

Hey! How about a quick critique of my first very poor shots?

If you have never tried Gentoo, you should give it a try. Contrary to popular belief, you can have the base installed and running in 15 minutes, and from then you just emerge the packages you want. gentoo-dev-sources, openssh, sysklogd, vixie-cron, at, ntp, whatever.
The documentation is brilliant, and all the defaults for the packages are sensible, and well thought out.
When I install a box, I do it at about 4pm. Give it 30 mins to configure, and install a new kernel, reboot, and leave it to emerge -u world ; emerge kde mozilla overnight.
Couple of things though - emerge ufed, and gentoolkit - ufed is a gui for editting USE flags, and gentoolkit contains qpkg.

A very brief doc I knocked up is here. It's probably slightly out of date by now, but you get the idea.

I know :)


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I did something like this. There was a proggie in the Win2K resource kit that slowly and gracefully shuts down all your programs, and reboots. I renamed it to do_not_run_this.exe. I sent it to the company mailing list, with a subject of VIRUS ATTACHED - DO NOT RUN. I put all over the email warnings about not running. A few minutes later, I got hassled by people: "Blah, I was working on something" "Blah, I was in the middle of a download". Unbelievable. You can see pics of the IT team that I was in here, just out of interest.

This guy tracks his location by phone.

Where is Calum?

Cheers,

Roger

It's Kazakhstan and Moscow July 2002 that I'm talking about, but I see everyone is looking at the "Russian girls section".

I have been in Russia, and Kazakhstan in what we all might consider bad cars. However, they took much, much more punishment than any European car could. Straight into big potholes in gravel tracks at about 40-50 mph, really motoring. For some pics, of the roads (if you can find them), check out my pics page. Oh, and you can see a pic of me next to a large weed-bush that grows everywhere in .kz :)

Where is Calum?

Curses. I was away when this article was posted. I have been tracking myself for a long time now. There are some really cool location based applications we are working on.

Alan, I've been tracking myself using this technique for a while now. Email me if you want to know how.

Is this anything to do with the demo I am running?

Speaking of monkeys....
Look at the monkey, funny monkey, little red monkey, acting so fidgety...

Ahem. And here's the bandwidth graph ;o)

I can see that video getting hammered.
I'm grabbing a copy here

I did that using a script - check it out.

I made a slight mod to that. I use a file full of random crap **plus** a passphrase as my key to encrypt my data. In an emergency, shred -uvz /path/to/key will render the data absolutely useless, even if I give up my key. I wrote a little init script to help out with this.

Isn't that the start to a Kylie song?
"Is it in my imagination, there is no hesitation..."

Watch Kylie french-kiss Geri from the Spice girls.

Should help though
http://gk.umtstrial.co.uk/~calum/2.5-kernel/
Might update it if I get a few hits.

Here are some very simple notes that I scratched about getting Redhat 8 working with IPv6 over IPv4. It's really that simple.

Unfortunately, this lack of IPv6 adoption is due to Microsoft. As 90% of the online-population can't use it, the people running the services can't be bothered to support it. And while there aren't any decent services on IPv6, the impetus to upgrade it is low.

Windows XP users: ipv6 install
RedHat: http://gk.umtstrial.co.uk/~calum/ipv6-intro/

I think it can be all summed up by asking: Why don't you make all the sites you administer IPv6 only? Because then most of your audience wouldn't be able to see it.

And to test your IPv6 connectivity - http://ipv6.umtstrial.co.uk/

I only found this out recently, but the freeswan.org site lags behind the actual development of freeswan quite a lot. A nice friendly guy runs freeswan.ca, and keeps it chockablock with all the latest patches and stuff.

I've mirrored the downloads as they're so useful.