Monday, September 27, 2004
Interesting Corrolations
I was looking through the stats
for our ResNet firewall the other
day when I noticed some interesting trends ...
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Thursday, September 23, 2004
GINX lives
So I have some cabling and some IOS, I've gained some BGP-fu and I've been
playing around. The result is something that looks vaugely like GINX should.
I'm still not entirely happy with the configs on the route server. They
don't do enough bogon
filtering on the incoming prefixes. That'll come though :)
I also updated the web page a bit - I added a looking glass, updated client
configs and some more info. We're getting there, slowly.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
SubBrit/RSG
I've always found Cold War history interesting, particularly with respect to
its technological implications. Sometime earlier this year, The Register carried a story on fires
in a Manchester
phone exchange. The story eventually lead me to find the Subterranea Britannica website and
particularly their Cold War
research study group.
I was wondering today (while trapped in a rather long, boring meeting)
whether similar things exist in South Africa, and if they do, how I find out
about them. There were rumours at one stage of Apartheid era oil stockpiles
in Limpopo province, but I've never found out much in the way of facts.
Does anyone know of any interesting Cold War or Apartheid related technology
sites in this country? I'd love to go clambering down into old bunkers,
phone exchanges, etc, just to see how the Cold War mentality worked :)
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Bloxsom Plugin
Pierre wanted a blosxom plugin to produce an index like
this (i.e. a calendar showing only
days on which there are posts). Since I convinced Pierre to use blosxom, I sort of offered to write one
... so now we have my first blosxom plugin. I've just submitted it to the
blosxom plugin registry and
the source code is available from rucus' FTP
server.
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Sunday, September 19, 2004
Smoking in Grocotts
In June I posted a rant about smoking in
public. Well this is the follow up :)
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Thursday, September 16, 2004
GINX lives
Well, almost. We've finally taken delivery of the Cisco router. It only
took Comparex seven weeks to
deliver it — perhaps this is a new record? Kudos to Russell for patiently following up on
it every so often, and for putting up with my nagging ;-).
Unfortunately we were sent the wrong IOS feature set (IP BASE rather than
IP) so we can't do BGP just yet. Once that's sorted out, we might actually
start exchanging packets between participants :) It'll be nice to finally
have an Internet Exchange in
Grahamstown.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Merlin Gerin++
I've decided that I like MGE UPS
Systems. Not only do they actively support opensource and
contribute to the development of the Network UPS Tools project, they
usefully answer my questions too.
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UPDATE 2005/12/22: Sort of a solution
Over a year later I managed to finally resolve my U-Talk problems by giving up on running NUT on FreeBSD and running it on Debian/Sarge instead.
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Friday, September 10, 2004
MSN Toolbar is evil
We've come to the conclusion that the MSN
Toolbar is evil. Not only does it install itself on your machine (it
comes bundled with the latest release of MSN Messenger), it breaks it too.
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Friday, September 03, 2004
Made My Day
After an absolutely terrible day yesterday (mod_perl, Apache and
PMAP_SHPGPERPROC are not my friends), I needed something to make me laugh.
Pierre found this:
It just explains *so much* of my typical day. I think I'll stick it up in
the tea room. Or on the door to helpdesk *efg*
(as an aside, with some mod_rewrite-fu bloxsom can be made to handle images
nicely :-))
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Mysql & Replication falling over
Mysql's replication feature is a great
way of providing redundancy and load sharing for database servers.
Unfortunately, as we've learnt from bitter experience, it doesn't recover
particularly well from system crashes (clean shutdowns are okay). My guess
is, since the bin log is being written almost constantly, corruption occurs.
Having spent a fair amount of time ploughing through documentation on how to
recover from this, I thought I'd share our quick? and easy step by step
solution.
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