A security update for WordPress – I got time to upgrade to 1.5.1.3 this weekend.
So far, so good.
Next on the list is a firewall rebuild and refresh. Hopefully sometime this weekend.
Update – new firewall is now in place. Now using IPcop as a vastly more friendly front-end to the collection of stuff I had before.
I posted a while ago on getting ZLM 6.6.1 to work with Oracle. Just some additional clarification in the docs.
Oracle database support is limited to the following configuration:
* An Oracle 9i database running on any platform supported by the Oracle database.
* A TCP listener running on your Oracle 9i database, which can be contacted by your client using onames or tnsnames.
* ZENworks Linux Management installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Advanced Server.
* The Oracle 9i client libraries installed on your ZENworks Linux Management server. The recommended Oracle client is Oracle 9i client, Release 2.We recommend working with your Oracle database administrator for database installation, management, and other Oracle-related issues.
Oracle 10g support on SLES will be part of ZLM 7 SP1.
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in Utah for almost three years. That means the three year lease on my current Land Rover is almost up.
Looking around – and I’m really taken with buying a classic London Taxi.
One of these: 
Import regulations are nasty – only vehicles over 25 years old can be imported; otherwise lots of Federal regulations need to be complied with. Looks like a 25 year old import runs at just over $10,000 to get it to one of the ports – Houston or maybe Long Beach.
Diesel only, top speed of maybe 70 mph (no speeding!), no air conditioning, right hand drive only.
BBC news has a lot of information.
One interesting technology part – again from the BBC
Mobile phone services across London were jammed with all major networks reporting problems as people tried to contact relatives and friends. A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the emergency services were being given priority.
Was ACCess Overload Control (ACCOLC) put in place?
More details here, here and here.
Year 2000 ACCOLC article here.
Wow. Grandpa is selling room space within Zone 2 for $2000 a night already..
I rebuilt a NetWare 6.5 server at home this weekend; replacing it with SLES 9.
What should have been an hour or so turned into a fun half-day – the CD-ROM on the server was flaky; SLES 9 CD1 booted; every other CD turned into just unreadable errors.
In the end I installed over ftp from another server – I should have done this much much earlier – I keep a server just for this purpose (AutoYaST, ZENworks Imaging etc).
In the end I was very pleased with another over-the-wire installation; it’s been a few months since I last had to do this; and this time for a ‘real’ server of my own.
I saw this on The Register this morning. The local interest (Utah woman gets $15k for tattoo on face) angle was interesting – but I thought “no one could be that crazy”.
The local Deseret News ran the story – and it all seems genuine enough.
Hunting around – and it looks like it may be a fake:
“However, the lack of blood or bloody tissue, redness or swelling … makes me still seriously doubt this is real.”
A new channel appeared in the last week or so – Logo – and I’m sure there will be complaints from the locals. We quite like it 😉
WELCOME TO LOGO!
For the first time ever, Gay America has a home on television where we can go to see ourselves. On LOGO you will see more than 200 lesbian and gay films, an ongoing documentary series, newscasts tailored for a gay and lesbian audience and quality original shows and specials. Programming that reflects our lives. Programming that tells our stories.
I was talking to a friend about posting to the web – and I mentioned that I’d had a personal website since about 1993. The challenge was to see if it was still hosted.
Google is my friend. I found one of my old websites – and it’s not been touched in over nine years. I’m wgetting it now to host at home. (Unlikely it’s going to go away soon – it’s been static for nine years!)
Way back in the distant past (1990) I had access to the ‘internet’ from a VMS host at university; telnet, VMSmail, lynx – all good stuff.
Just after – around 1991 – I also got a CompuServe account – mainly for access to the Novell technical forums and patches.
When I could afford a ‘better’ workstation (386dx33, 32MB RAM, 40MB HDD, Windows 3.11!) in around 1993 I finally moved to a ‘real’ dialup PPP account using Almac in Scotland. That’s when I first had personal webspace. A whole couple of meg online.
Finally I moved to UUNet/Pipex and used that service for around five years.
Now I host at home with a dedicated line and fixed IP.
It’s incredible how times have changed.
I read a nice article on Novel Cool Solutions today. Specifically about creating init scripts on Linux.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15380.html
Nicely put together; and actually pretty useful.
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