I've updated my OpenPGP/GPG key here and on the public key servers. This is just a little house keeping: resetting the primary UID back to my proper email address and revoking the UIDs for email addresses which are no longer valid.

These people are telling the country that they're in charge of communications in this country and yet they can't even control their own:

ironic:~ ben$ curl http://www.acma.gov.au/
Document Moved
Object Moved
This document may be found hereironic:~ ben$ curl Read more... )

The new server is in and the old server is off. Anything sent to the old server might be there, buried amongst a ridiculous amount of spam (which is why I started using the GMail account in the first place). Anything sent to my email address at my domain from now on should reach me (after getting past the greylisting ( Read more... )

I am finally getting around to a much needed server upgrade for adversary.org. I'm switching from an ancient and decrepit Slackware 8.0 system (devious) to a CentOS 5.5 system (seditious). I've dealt with the most important things: HD mirrors, SELinux, DNS and mail (with spam/virus filtering ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of news articles recently about various privacy breaches by the likes of Google and Facebook, including the recent exodus from Facebook. Both of these follow various migrations from LiveJournal to places like DreamWidth due to some similar concerns.

Following reading a number of these articles, I've been reading up on the ( Read more... )

This is fantastic:

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I've been trying to check some details from Senate Estimates, but I haven't been able to all night. It seems that the Australian Parliament House website is down and has been down for several hours. Obviously I double-checked this from another network ( Read more... )

For the last couple of hours or more the website of the Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy has been offline.

At first none of the nameservers were responding:

bash-3.2$ dig soa dbcde.gov.au

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P3 <<>> soa dbcde.gov.au ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd say this, but Microsoft have actually created something amazing. Have a look at this.

So, I am in the process of migrating my mother from Windows to Mac. For a number of reasons she still needs to access certain programs and older hardware on her PC, but would prefer to do so from the Mac. At this point in time neither a virtual machine nor CrossOver are suitable solutions ( Read more... )