14 Dec 2000 » hadess: Xfree86 on ppc 4.0.2 is out soonish (like dec 15 is code build day). 4.0.2 fixes a number of known PPC-isms as well as introduces a bunch of new servers and features, whilst improving the stability of the 4.0.x code base. 4.0.2 is not just a point release. I recommend…
Author: vanderaj
Advogato – on resignation letters
13 Dec 2000 » pjf: going, going, gone… Paul, just in case you’re stuck, the deal with those sort of letters is: be brief – one, maybe two paragraphs of a couple of sentences each maximum do not slag anyone off or burn bridges just say “You’ve been wonderful to work for, but I need…
Advogato – got my Win2K MCSE
12 Dec 2000 » life I’m a Win2K MCSE after passing my final MCP exam. Woohoo. That last exam was Designing Network Infrastructure, which funnily enough is what I do for a living. I do network security architecture on a first-world country scale. I am currently working on a project that will re-engineer how my…
Advogato – nearly a Win2K MCSE
6 Dec 2000 » hackery Need to work on my paper for http://linux.conf.au MCSE Almost finished. Soon I’ll be a win2k MCSE. Next week is my last exam. I might even study for that one. work Top class blocking going on by a major vendor preventing me from getting on site at the data centre….
Advogato – 2 December 2000
2 Dec 2000 (updated 2 Dec 2000) » deekayen: World AIDS day Deekayen, there is no point in classifying how you got a particular disease. In South Africa, 20% of the population has HIV/AIDS. They are all not gay or junkies (which you seem to have trouble with), and they have a terminal illness. For…
Advogato – 1 December 2000
1 Dec 2000 (updated 1 Dec 2000) » hackery I have to do the following things: study for the rest of my MCSE exams write my paper for linux.conf.au work on the gtkada program that this paper references write my slides for said paper work on miscellaneous SAGE-AU stuff, like the Code of Practice and…
Advogato – Bought a PlayStation 2
29 Nov 2000 » One of the lucky 60,000 Australians to have bought a PlayStation 2. I’m going to have serious tekken thumb tomorrow. 🙂 mrorganic: agreed. Check out talk.origins. It’s very useful if you’re into combatting silliness, whilst demonstrating that we are open to new ideas as they arise. That’s what shits me about…
Advogato – AOSS 2
28 Nov 2000 » Diary of Releasing OSDA at AOSS2 This is a long one. It covers my weekend just past. Friday After a hectic week, I made my way from home to the airport with my frantically packed carry-on and laptop, and thus to the Qantas Club with unseemly haste. I had a couple…
Advogato – 22 November 2000
22 Nov 2000 » Skud: AOSS2 I’m going to AOSS2 to do the SAGE-AU presentation. Mail me your presentation as a backup mechanism – it can come across on mr laptop. Also, I’m reasonably certain that Michael Paddon et al (ie the organisers) will look after it for you as well. work: Win2K security tute…
Advogato – On Basic Digest Authentication
21 Nov 2000 » gstein: basic digest authentication is evil and is first against the wall when the revolution comes As far as security people like me are concerned, basic digest is in the clear. It’s base64 encoded ASCII text. Therefore it’s in the clear, as the amount of transformation that is required is not…