Looks like the DNS for a load of UK ISPs (including mine - Demon) is fscked. I know that NTL and Blueyonder are also affected. No idea why it's happening, but it's really annoying... and I can't log into MSN. ICQ/AIM/Yahoo!/Jabber, fine, but not MSN.
I wonder how big my
Well, I had an AS computing thingy in London today. Oddly I only saw about two protesters, there must've been more. The presentations seemed to be mostly done by management, with the oh-so-reassuring "Yes, Big Brother is watching you, but it's for catching the bad guys" from an employee of the Met Police. XML was mentioned a few times, but I don't think they really had any clue what they were talking about - "Our XML interface allows establishments with existing records to submit these withou
Hmm, just noticed `whois microsoft.com` turns up a load of odd results... if you don't have a whois available, here, use mine. (Note that page sends itself as application/xhtml+xml, so IE won't like it. Dunno if you can save it and open locally, as I don't have IE here.)
Right, I'm having a load of problems with CSS being annoying.
My new implementation of bloat's front page is being annoying. Mozilla renders it as I like it. AFAICT, everything else has odd positioning. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here? Have I done something stupid? Or is it CSS's fault?
(Oh, and the topic? Well, I hope to be enlightened!)
It's interesting just how much crap there is on microsoft.com...
Use Google or AllTheWeb (they both give different results) to search site:microsoft.com and then add some terms...
Interestingly, by searching for Slashdot, I found a definition of the slashdot effect.
According to BBCi News, a "break-wind" dog has caused a [false] bomb alert.
There are so many good quotes in this story that it's hard to pick a favourite one, but I guess this one is pretty good:
Armed security staff were alerted when the toy's wind-breaking mechanism registered as a high explosive on sensitive monitoring equipment.
I don't think there are many slashdot readers who actually like michael; I'm not one of them. I've been annoyed with michael's stories for a while, but not too bothered. This slowly built up, until the final straw - Your Rights Online: RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers". My first thought was of... I dunno, backslashdot.org [a fictional entity for the purposes of this JE] po
For those of you who care...
Well, after a long (5 months, 6 days) period, Bloat 1.2 has been released! There is a lot in Bloat 1.2 which justifies the upgrade from 1.1, indeed there is too much to list here; check the release notes for Bloat 1.2 for a cut-down version of the changes. If you have been using a release candidate of Bloat 1.2, I'd also recommend you upgrade, as there you will be able to feel safe
I want active directory support in Samba. AD support needs Kerberos. Everywhere I've seen with Kerberos for download seems very anal about making sure you are based in the US or Canada.
Basically, is there anywhere legal to get Kerberos from for a UKer like me? I really do want it, but I don't want to break any laws.
...in one easy step").
OK, as you probably guessed from the title, I'm a moron. I've also nuked my FS. How?
[dave@tc4
/home/dave/grub]# grub-install /dev/hda2
Reconstruction
Yup, I am a moron. Thank you.
Basically I need testers for bloat 1.2 rc3. As I'm generally a bit pissed off at everything right now, I'm going to just give the URL which hopefully says everything...
Note - I haven't done a news post for any of the RCs except 1 (I think) on bloat.sf.net, but they are on sf.net/projects/bloat...
Thanks.
OK, somebody odd from IRC [irc.uplinkcorp.net , #uplink] is selling a new folder on eBay... I'm going to see if he has any bids. Yay. etc.
Bloat is a Perl script which analyses an archive's filename/type and extracts it using a suitable extractor.
Well, Bloat 1.2 RC 1 has been released! 1.1 -> 1.2's CVS has been very very dodgy, so I wanted a base that people could test from, without it being too dodgy. I believe that 1.2 is fine, but I don't guarantee everything, but I use it myself and haven't seen any problems yet *deep breath*.
Well, for those who care, here are my GCSE results:
English: A
English - Talking and Listening: A
English Lit: A
[English - all - for want of a better word - bullshitting]
ICT: A
[I'm a
Maths: B
[I've missed almost half of school time over the GCSE years - I was surprised to get a B, especially since I lightly pencilled in "goatse" before the "CX" in a length question]
Geography: C
Garbage In -- Gospel Out.
