machine-envy

I just did a fresh install of feisty on a new machine and I’m not happy.  Lets take a look at two packages, all beginning with fire, both of which are pretty standard for me:

Firefox - this just segfaults from a brand new install.  Thanks.
Firehol - this is the best way of writing firewall rules […]

Two items of copyright geekery in this morning’s Guardian. Firstly. Alice Gould gives the legal 101 on hijacking”user-generated content” for a traditional media setting (well done Media Guardian for removing that nasty subscription barrier, by the way). Her conclusion:
The law may appear antiquated in the fast-changing world of the internet, but in most cases citizen […]

…for the apparent attraction of the Metro as it is held in a fellow commuter’s hands. An attraction that disappears completely when the commuter leaves it on the seat and you start reading it.
Still looks like Westminster are doing the right thing and charging them for dumping tonnes of crap on the streets of […]

I was having a problem where I would see “Forbidden, perhaps you need to change the file permissions for this document or upload an index page” for every page in the site if I changed the permalink option in the wordpress admin page.
The good folks at A4 suggested putting this in the .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes
Options […]

After James showed me the web is us/ing us video, I wrote about it for my latest openDemocracy piece. It’s the first time I’ve been able to join up my interest in linguistcs with my interest in the information age, and I’m quite proud of the result.
After the Sandinista government took power in Nicaragua in […]

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the web is us/ing us.  Its good short film about the way the machine learns.  Not sure if we need to rethink all the things listed, but still good.

I went to the premier of We’ll Never Meet Childhood Again a few weeks ago.  It was showing as part of the Human Rights Watch film festival.
The film follows the plight of Romanian children with AIDS who were abandoned to institutions in the eighties, see the HRW report here.   It shows the stories by […]

Just in case, as I did, you think of running a mixed windows/linux network using a samba PDC then here’s something to be aware of. When mounting the smbfs filesystem from linux, you will get CIFS extensions. Great - your uids will be the same on server and client. However, winbind will […]

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