Archive for March, 2004

Two great quotes

March 30th, 2004

“When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said: ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had Bible and they had the land.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill.

Site of broken dreams

March 29th, 2004

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Yes today it has been the site ‘o broken dreams. Many busted things as a result of upgrading EE. Silly me. I should have taken the experience of the weekend when abolsutely nothing wanted to compile right as a basis and just not touched anything. :)

And fixed my sendmail problem. Which seems like a good thing until you see the ten problems fixing the intitial problem generated. I am giving up on the chroot thing for Sendmail. I’ll just set the SAFE FILE ENVIRONMENT and stop Sendmail writing to pipes and the like. Not totally secure but not as annoying as the limitations of the full chroot. Personally though I am going to stick with Postfix. If I wasn’t writing the book I would never have touched Sendmail ever again. :(

Goddamn sendmail chroot

March 28th, 2004

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Goddam. Stuck on a bloody chroot problem with sendmail. The fucking thing doesn’t seem to want to see /etc/passwd in the chroot jail – when it can see the sendmail.cf file in the mail subdirectory. And no it’s not a permissions problem. The permissions on both files are identical. Driving me nuts. If anyone knows how to fix:

554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 479: readcf: option RunAsUser: unknown user mail
554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 498: readcf: option TrustedUser: unknown user root

I’d much appreciate it. Bugger-nation.

Rainbow excitement

March 26th, 2004

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For those of you who remember the British children’s TV show Rainbow this should be a lot of plucking fun. Let’s all pluck on Bungle’s twanger.

Oh – courtesy of Mefcon.

Still here

March 25th, 2004

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I’m still around. Busy as all hell. Not overly happy. Missing people and generally being a grumpy bastard. Email or IM me if you want a fuller account of why life outside of my house sucks – though thanks to the Mef-man, Red Kat and hedonist06 for making last night much more pleasant than the preceeding working day.

First Baptist Signage by Kat

March 22nd, 2004

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These are very funny. I especially liked the rating for Passion of Christ. Funny Kat.

Yes I am a soppy bastard

March 21st, 2004

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The chap who runs Diary-X put this – a proposal to his girlfriend – as a ‘once only’ default page for anyone browsing to a Diary-X page. So romantic in a terribly geeky way. Stephen Deken – good luck dude. :)

Update – Aww. She said yes.

Commentary on idiocy

March 20th, 2004

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You know I don’t mind when people disagree with me. Indeed I love a good argument. But what annoys me is people (who often can’t spell and even more often appear to lack a basic grasp of grammar) telling me I am an idiot for some viewpoint I’ve expressed. Now I don’t mind being called an idiot – hell I may even be one *consults my partner* Yep. Appears sometimes I am. What annoys me is that these people do it without even defending their viewpoint with some form of intellectual argument. Grow up. What is the old adage? If you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all? Well in the confines of this space – if you can’t say anything intelligent then don’t say anything at all.

friday five 124

March 19th, 2004

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1. …owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?

Cajun. Or maybe a Cajun-Japanese fusion place. That would satisfy all my taste buds.

2. …owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?

Duh. Books. Lots of books.

3. …wrote a book, what genre would it be?

Writing one now and surprise, surprise it’s about computers.

4. …ran a school, what would you teach?

Politics and history. Or be a librarian.

5. …recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?

Nothing. No one in their right mind lets me near musical instruments or allows me to sing.

Updated wordsmithing

March 19th, 2004

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First chapter done and edited. Editor very happy = Kartar very happy. Now into second chapter. This one going a bit slower but have been working on a schedule of not stopping until I have completed a particular section. Hopefully will finish off 1/2 this weekend.