Found the reason why my MD5 sums didn’t match anyone elses! I stupidly had written down the MD5 checksum for the file containing the MD5 checksum for the key signing list, and not the MD5 for the file I wanted to!
The actual MD5 checksums were correct.. ENOCAFFEINE!
Well, we’re back from Canberra and LCA 2005 went really well, and I even survived presenting at the Clustering Mini-Conference which was worth the trip in itself.
Anyway, no time to write more at the moment, been very busy fixing up the new mailsystem on one of these (with 128MB RAM and a 40GB hard disk) running Gentoo Linux using Maia Mailguard to control Amavisd-new with SpamAssassin and Clam Anti-Virus.
Just wish I’d been able to afford the model with 256MB when I’d bought it!
Well today we’re off to Linux.Conf.Au 2005, and Monday 4:10pm I’m going to be presenting at the Clustering Mini-Conference with a talk called:
Herding Cats – Clustering with Linux at VPAC
The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) is Victoria’s
peak HPC organisation, and Linux based clustering has become the mainstay
of our HPC facilities.
As VPAC’s Deputy System’s Manager I will be taking you on a tour of the
clustering technologies we use and how Linux and Free/Open Source software
helps us meet the needs of our users (and where it doesn’t). Finally,
we will take a peek at what promise future technologies may hold for
our organisation.
Wish me luck!
I’ve been bouncing the idea of a Church of Google around at work for a while now, but of course consulting Google itself leads me to the knowledge that I am not innovating (again). There is already a Church of Google, but they hide away on Orkut, shame on them!
I hereby declare that there has been a schism, and the Church of Google has forked. We now have the United Revised Church Of Google (URCOG) (v0.42beta)!
All you need to do is:
In the meantime here are some a collection of deep and/or silly thoughts in relation to Google from 2003 from Philipp Lenssen’s blog coverage of Google..
I’ve just finished putting up the webpage on Donna’s site selling DVD’s of Donna’s ‘Conversational Lectures’ filmed by our friend Jeanette Purkis of Autie Productions (who is also an artist).
Well, I got an email from Todd in reponse to my posting his story about not being able to contact me. Todd runs the Fall Creek Place Community website that looks like a nice idea, an attempt to help foster a real community through the web (in addition to real life, needless to say!).
Turns out what he was after was not quite related to the xBackends.php script that generates my RSS feed, but the little HTML tags that I used to tell Firefox and Konqueror/Akregator that there is an RSS feed associated with the page that they are viewing, and so to show the little RSS indicator at the bottom of the frame.
I wrote about it before, somewhere, but to recap here’s the little HTML tag that does the magic.
Found via Mark Greenaway’s blog, an interesting Rolling Stone article about the peak oil production problem, which has had a fair bit of press in New Scientist recently..
Just got an eBay phishing email that made it past SpamAssassin and Clam-AV – the site it lists:
203.48.154.161
appears to be at Telstra, and uses an HTML form post to a mailform program in Italy to send an email to a Yahoo email address.
Reported it to those who should know..
This arrived in the submission basket today..
Today, a user searched frantically for some way of writing to the Administrator, Chris Samuel. Having found nothing, he concocted a fake news story as a thinly vieled attempt at a complaint, in hopes that said Administrator would consider creating some link to internal or regular email, so that said user may ask him a question about his xBackends configuration for PostNuke.Film at 11.
– Todd.
🙂
Todd, it’s easy – you just email to:
chris
at
csamuel.org
and it will (should!) get to me, spam filters allowing…
Note that I’m off on Sunday to Canberra for LCA 2005 and so life is a bit hectic at the moment, but I’ll do my best to answer!
Ian Wienand has an interesting take on the whole Linus/Bitkeeper badness that happened recently, including this interesting email from Linus.