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Comment on Leave them kids alone by sgroarke

sgroarke — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:19:05 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8556659.stm

Comment on IPv6 at home – a guide to getting started by sgroarke

sgroarke — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:09:02 +0000

Once IPv6 is set up and working, prior to us becoming a fully-fledged router we need to enable forwarding. This is covered, along with the problems it then brings, in this post here.

Comment on IPv6 at home – a guide to getting started by sgroarke

sgroarke — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:05:48 +0000

Here’s another article where I tackle the issue of IPv6 firewall logging: http://www.ipsidixit.net/2010/02/25/231/

Comment on QuadKonsole on KDE4 by mark

mark — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:57:49 +0000

This is bad guys…. we wanna stick to KDE, and quadkonsole was so cool…

But I can understand Simon, he probably also would lack the time to polish quadkonsole.

It would be so cool if the KDE team one day thinks about having quadkonsole running in konsole tabs, because I would love this ability. I could jump to different konsole tabs, and have the first tab harbour a split dual or quad view (quadkonsole)

This feature would so fucking rock!

Comment on BMW France – To be avoided by sgroarke

sgroarke — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:05:56 +0000

They get better and better…

BMW Finance folks have now asked me for a THIRD time to send them a copy of the car’s Carte Grise. For the THIRD time I’ve done so, only this time paying 6.50 Euros to send it Lettre Recommandée.

How can a company that makes such fine cars be administered by such incompetents?

Comment on Amazon France – Adieu, not Au Revoir by sgroarke

sgroarke — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:02:00 +0000

In terms of Amazon alternatives, I’m trying out, for my English-language stuff anyway, The Book Depository. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ref/ipsidixit.aff (Full disclosure: I signed up for an affiliate link – use that and I earn a few pennies for any purchase!!)

Looks interesting. They compete with Amazon head-on: each book description includes a box showing the Amazon price, versus their own price. And they are confident enough that the Amazon box has a link to “Buy from Amazon”! They seem sure of themselves.

Placed a small order yesterday. Let’s see when it dispatches and arrives…

Comment on Sockstress mitigation on Linux using Shorewall by sgroarke

sgroarke — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:35:55 +0000

Thanks for the pointer, but I can’t find much more!! I looked for an archive of the irc #shorewall but did not find one, so do not have further details. Feel free to point me at them – I want to give people accurate, good information.

Reviewing what’s suggested, it’s not clear how the Red Hat suggestion “breaks things”. Again, please set me right on that and I’ll add the info here.

For my part, I’ve added this change to two live systems. Both medium-busy, running a variety of services (not just web) and have seen no breakage.

Note that I did originally say:

Note that the exact values used in the rules are, as the Red Hat advisory points out, going to be site specific. However the values given are a pretty good starting (and for many of us, finishing) point.

Anyway, if anyone can enlighten me, please do. I always listen to advice!

Comment on Amazon France – Adieu, not Au Revoir by Dan Waldron

Dan Waldron — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:16:12 +0000

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

Comment on Sockstress mitigation on Linux using Shorewall by karmapolis

karmapolis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:01:13 +0000

Checkout the #shorewall archives, we chatted about this today. bleve suggests using Limit: instead of this, because this example breaks things.

Comment on QuadKonsole on KDE4 by sgroarke

sgroarke — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:01:12 +0000

Interesting update!! Just about to place an “EDIT” in the original article with details of the response from QuadKonsole’s developer!!