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Re: Small bundle of sluggy joy

edumbill — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:24:59 -0000

If you can borrow a hub or a switch from somebody, try putting that between the AEBS and the NSLU2. Though I'm pretty sure I used an AEBS directly hooked up to the NSLU2...

Re: Load-balancing Mongrel with Apache 2.0

edumbill — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:43:39 -0000

Well, in theory you could write a program to generate maps.txt from some kind of availability information.

Re: Web 2.0 Excellent

edumbill — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:50:13 -0000

Thanks Dan. The attendee networking is "just enough" social network to make the conference work harder for attendees who want to meet each other, tell other attendees about themselves, and use direct messaging. The relationships persist over all Web Expo/O'Reilly events.

Future enhancements will likely include linking to FB and other social networks. We don't want to be a social network in our own right, as much as to help the normal process of networking at a conference.

Re: Web 2.0 Excellent

edumbill — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:07:27 -0000

I think that is an artifact of my i-photography. The color scheme worked out pretty great as a whole, but you're right about how the photo looks.

Re: Load-balancing Mongrel with Apache 2.0

edumbill — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:58:38 -0000

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy....

Re: Turn your world LDAP-tastic

edumbill — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:54:08 -0000

The Administrator account is created as part of the Samba LDAP
initialization process.

Re: Tolling the bell for the gatekeepers

edumbill — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:39:07 -0000

I'm rapidly coming round to your point of view on FF. It needs careful pruning to ensure it doesn't descend into dross

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:58:28 -0000

Sorry, that's just not helpful. Take a look at what I wrote, what it means. Identi.ca's slow right now because a one-man company is funding and scaling EC2 instances from his own pocket, and going without sleep to do it since a bunch of Twitter-refugees jumped on the site over the last 24 hours.

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:19:55 -0000

Try again a bit later. The attention spike has meant Evan's moving servers around, with some DNS snags in the process.

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:12:28 -0000

Seems to me it's the same principle as using GPL software. In which case, we may remain ideologically irreconcilable.

Also, see the bug list. There's enlightening explanation at http://greyowl.controlezvous.ca/PITS/00068

Re: Why Identi.ca is important

edumbill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:40:26 -0000

Fixed, thanks!

Re: OSCON: what are your must-see talks?

edumbill — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:45:25 -0000

I cannot believe I missed that! Added, thanks!

Re: Web 2.0 gas prices (Scripting News)

edumbill — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:54:14 -0000

Jim, true. But American cars are significantly less efficient than in the UK. A better comparison might be in terms of $ per mile. The last time my American friend filled up their fuel tank it came to about the same price as it costs me in the UK to fill mine.

Re: Secure LDAP replication

edumbill — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:29:03 -0000

Personally, I'm inexperienced with Java in production, so I don't
follow that space. Also, I don't need something "enterprise" size for
my small business. Thanks for the pointer though!

For other readers, DSEE is here http://www.sun.com/software/products/directory_...

Re: My OSCON 2008 picks

edumbill — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:33:07 -0000

No, I've only played with Puppet so farearly days. I'll take a look
at bcfg2, a brief look at the bcfg2 website looks as though it's a lot
less flexible than Puppet, but that can be both positive and negative.
The XML format of bcfg2 configurations is a bit offputting, too.

I'm not entirely sure that Puppet and bcfg2 are the same kind of tool,
so a direct comparison may not be useful.

Re: The BBC, microformats, RDFa and Resig

edumbill — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:31:09 -0000

Thanks for your further clarifications, I think that's a great contribution to the debate. I'd not seen the "data-" thing before. Now to see if some RDFa folk want to comment on that...

Re: Social area networking please

edumbill — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:11:07 -0000

That seems like a decent chunk of the machinery there and then.
Ideally only the peers of my choice would have access to the service
records.

Re: Social area networking please

edumbill — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:48:04 -0000

I think you miss my point: the piece I'm after is the bit which sets
up the VPN in an ad-hoc way based on a selection or group of contacts.

Re: We're all ops people now

edumbill — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:32:59 -0000

You have a good point, and it illustrates what I meant by saying that we just end up pushing problems to the next level. The transition of application developer into an operations person (ensuring their base OS is always patched, etc.) is exactly my thesis.

The problem you mention is still there with the 'old-school' release. If you compile against a library with a security flaw, as vendor it's still your problem, not the customer's.

If you distribute appliances the game changes slightly: you at least can lock the appliance down more tightly than your customer would firewall, which could mitigate a lot of security issues, but you gain a slightly enlarged set of dependencies. You could argue that fixing these becomes easier, however, as you retain control over the deployment environment.

Also, let's not concentrate exclusively on outside distribution. The vast majority of software is developed and deployed inside the firewall, not outside of it.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

Re: Secure LDAP replication

edumbill — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:30:05 -0000

Re: Secure LDAP replication

edumbill — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:55:00 -0000

OpenLDAP can do that too I believe, though I've no personal need for it. The key thing here I suspect is I'm not a Windows guy :)

Re: Low-tech SSL certificate maintenance

edumbill — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:13:26 -0000

Thanks, that's a great resource!

Re: New arrival

edumbill — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:12:20 -0000

Thanks! They're pretty interested and happy with him. No jealousy to speak of so far.

Re: GUADEC reflections: supporting innovation in GNOME

edumbill — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:23:30 -0000

I'm afraid it got eaten. However, archive.org still has it here: http://web.archive.org/web/20061116101407/http:...

Re: New arrival

edumbill — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:17:04 -0000