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Freenode IRC – Connect And Auth Securely
Sat, 01/30/2010 - 21:30 | by nixternalOK, so today freenode migrated to their new server. It was a bit rough around the edges at first, however they have finally added support for connecting via SSL and using a script in Irssi you can authenticate via SASL. So, I will quickly show you how to get SSL and SASL setup for Irssi and Irssi only, and I am assuming you already have a connection to Freenode already setup.
Ubuntu, Yahoo, Microsoft, and bears oh my
Thu, 01/28/2010 - 17:29 | by nixternalYes, as many of you have read recently, Canonical has created a deal with Yahoo! to provide the default search for Firefox in the Lucid release. I decided that I would sit back and parse not only the information that Canonical has put out, but also the information I am reading on the web, Twitter, Identi.ca, and mailing lists. To be honest, I was actually surprised that a large scale attack or a FUD campaign never started over this, and I feel there just might be a turning point in all of this.
Mark E-mails in Mutt as Tasks in Taskwarrior
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 23:12 | by nixternalOK, so I think most people know that I have grown quite fond of Taskwarrior for managing my Getting Things Done stuff. Many of you might also know that Mutt is my e-mail client of choice, for the past 15 years. Recently you saw a post on Planet Ubuntu by the rockstar Bryce Harrington concerning Mark emails in mutt as tasks in gtg.
Doc Jam Chicago Style
Fri, 01/15/2010 - 15:47 | by nixternalHey everyone, just wanted to drop a quick note to those of you who are in or around the Chicago land area, on Sunday, January 17th from 12:30PM until 5:30PM the Ubuntu Chicago LoCo team will be meeting up in Chicago for a documentation jam. If you would like to show up, here is the address of where we will be hanging out:
On-Shore Inc.
1407 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL
Ubuntu Chicago Files Chapter 13
Thu, 01/14/2010 - 01:37 | by nixternalTo go along with the spirit of most big things in the United States, Ubuntu Chicago is filing Chapter 13. Well almost big things, as they all filed Chapter 11 pretty much. Anyways, Ubuntu Chicago isn’t going anywhere, it is just going to restructure itself to become a much more efficient LoCo team. Some of the restructuring is going to bring:
Byobu shows me next meeting
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 15:10 | by nixternalHave I ever told you all how much I love byobu? I have always used screen, though I really never tweaked it all crazy like many did. Recently I typed screen at the command line and I was presented with this thing called byobu. I went ahead and gave it a shot, and at first I will say I was rather annoyed with the bar at the bottom of my screen, and my scrollwheel didn’t work with byobu the way it did with screen. I went ahead and changed my workflow in order to get used to byobu.
Security Theatre, the Orange Edition
Sun, 12/27/2009 - 23:28 | by mishehuI like how the authors at Debka summed it up:
“The horrendous sight of another Western airline crashing over the US on Christmas Day 2009 was averted by a fluke and the resourcefulness of passengers and cabin crew – not by the anti-terror agencies’ high-tech gadgets, vast budgets and airport security measures.”
Now let’s look at this next posting, this time from Slashdot:
Security Theatre
Sat, 12/26/2009 - 23:57 | by mishehuI’m just trying to reconcile this… I cannot bring a bottle of water past a security checkpoint anytime I wish to fly, but a man somehow sets off a “small explosive device” on a Delta Airlines flight between Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Detroit? I’ve even had bottles of water that I had with me on El Al flights confiscated from me in Newark…
Shouldn’t airplane security focus on real security and not things that give the misperception of security?
Calling on DJB
Fri, 12/18/2009 - 15:31 | by mishehuPerhaps you’ve used his software before. Perhaps you know it’s a little “funky” in design, because DJB does things his way. But this is not to say that his software is faulty. Unfortunately, though, he is not known as one who updates his software to fix bugs or add new functionality to them.
Everyone is late to the game
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 12:53 | by nixternalLast night as I went to bed, I turned on the television to see what was on. This is typically the way I fall asleep. I came across this movie titled, “The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest” from 2002. In this movie, 4 researches split off from some big research company to create a $99 PC. Where have I heard that one before? Oh, they were only off by a $1. Then, in order to make this $99 PC, they had to get rid of so much, they got rid of things such as:
