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November 14, 2004
Misc
Unix people: check out pam_ssh. It authenticates you against your SSH keys, and runs an agent so you can get the single sign-on effect of Kerberos and pretty good distributed security. It’s pretty cool.
I’ve now set up most of the new Matterform server, and I have to say, it’s been an education. Trying to set everything up to be virtually hosted is really quite a chore. I guess everyone fell in love with LDAP because it solved a lot of the hassle of getting all these disparate programs to agree on things.
I got the domain random-pontification.info, which was inspired by Tim’s suggestion of pontificate.org but which is sadly unavailable. This is for Matterform’s testing purposes so it’s unlikely anything will go up on that site. I think I’m also going to try and get content-free.org, for myself, because I think that’s really funny. :) It would probably also wind up just being a Matterform test domain. Virtual hosts are a bitch, basically.
One other technical note: LiveJournal’s RSS functionality is really annoying. Granted, I’m glad you lazy fucksacks get to reed my woids, but there are two things about it which are really shitty:
- I don’t get any sort of notification when anyone posts a comment. This would be annoying but tolerable, if it weren’t for the fact that…
- They delete the entries a week after they’re snarfed, which means I have to be constantly checking to make sure nobody’s commenting.
I didn’t see, for example, Schlake’s comment urging me not to use FreeBSD-CURRENT without debugging on (thanks) or Cathy’s informing me that if Kerry won the electoral vote, he’d still be in (also thanks, didn’t know that) until the sixth day out. There are probably comments I haven’t seen at all. And all this, because LiveJournal is too technologically challenged to parse the required email field “/feed/entry/author/email/text()” (in XPath) from the atom.xml file, and send me an email when someone comments.
I’m reading Moby Dick, because the Mastodon album was so good and basically about it, I figured it had to be good. I’m up to Chapter 5 and so far, it’s excellent. I wish I had a hardcover of it though, rather than this Project Gutinberg ass-formatted thing.
My cat has been exceptionally friendly, and I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve that. I should get some sleep however, since it’s 10 and I haven’t slept yet. Michael’s going to owe me some time for this weekend. :)
Posted by FusionGyro at November 14, 2004 10:10 AM
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You got a kitty?!? WHEN??
I’m jealous :p
Posted by: Nikki at November 14, 2004 07:32 PM