Archive for February, 2010

IPv6 – logging and shorewall6

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Following on from my early success at get IPv6 running, I soon hit a significant issue: firewall logging. Now this need not be a "blocker" for everyone, but I take my firewall logging duties quite seriously...! shorewall IPv4 logging Currently I have IPv4 shorewall configured to log not using the standard syslog mechanism, ...

IPv6 at home – a guide to getting started

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

With IPv6 slowly becoming more visible, it was time to get to grips with it. While absolutely not essential (yet!) it seemed like a fun idea: my ADSL provider offers native IPv6 in parallel with IPv4, and my hosting provider is running an IPv6 beta. So I can do native ...

Bless me father for I have punched

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Several newspapers report today (e.g. here and here) that a British judge this week chose not to jail a violent criminal because he was religious. The judge said "You are a religious man and you know this is not acceptable behaviour." The fact that the judge in question is Cherie Blair, wife ...

Leave them kids alone

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI is apparently set to visit Britain soon. However he has also decided to attack the laws giving gay couples similar rights to married (heterosexual) couples, as a variation on the church's more general disgust with anyone who does not share their own twisted sexual views Aware that this is ...