Archive for July, 2005

LGFers, you’ve got to love ‘em.

July 22nd, 2005

Writes a mental giant calling themselves Crimsonfisted over at LGF

ok – Someone in my house noticed the bombings in London today took place at:

Shepherd’s Bush

Warren Street

Oval Tube Stations

Hackney Road

Anyone else think it is a message the next attack will try to be Bush in the Oval office since no one was hurt? or is this a crack pot conspirancy theory?

I’m surprised that Pluto being in Cancer and the Pope being a German wasn’t included in there. Maybe a little story about it being ‘The End Times’ according to some redacted version of a 2000 year-old parchment and we could call ‘Bingo‘ on this sort of lunacy.

Having had to commute to central London all this week on the tube, to read that kind of shit from some lard-arse a couple of thousand miles away who wants to exterminate all moslems sort of grates on the nerves. The is the kind of person that calls England’s capital ‘Londistan’ and think they’re being original and clever – about as clever as someone as someone who spells America with ‘kk’ in the middle. Two sides of the same extreme coin, who can’t even use their heads, look around and see what’s wrong, never mind come up with a way to improve things.

Knee Jerkers, idiots and mouth-breathers, both sides. We need to up our game to overcome this latest challenge. Crimsonfisted and their ilk join the ‘we’re part of the problem’ camp. As for the rest of LGF? If I were Charles Johnson, I’d be scarlet with embarrasment that these idiots were the ‘LGF Minons‘.

Bye, bye Pajamas Media.

Obscure message of the year..

July 20th, 2005

..goes to iManager 2.02.

“After logging into iManager, you have switched
your login to be a secondary user”

No I didn’t. I logged into iManager and tried to do something useful, like install a module or configure the iManager PCO (Portal Configuration Object).
It turns out that when you log in to iManager 2.02 (not sure about 2.5, haven’t packet traced this yet), it actually does two logins. The first is an LDAP over SSL login to the server specified in the PortalServlet.properties file. The second login you never see, it’s meant to be a transparent login to the tree via NDAP and this error means that it can’t do that. In my case, it was the fact that the eDirectory tree (PETES_TREE, in my case) couldn’t be resolved by any method – SLP, DNS or /etc/hosts, so the process gave up, logged me in as the anonymous user then complained when I wanted to do something pretty important like configuring the portal.

The problem is that iManager needs jclient, and that needs some way to find a tree. SLP is good, DNS is also good. An /etc/hosts entry that specifies the tree name is easy, but probably less manageable for a large tree. For a few servers though, it’s a no-brainer. At the very least, try the hosts file solution if you’re having this kind of problem, just to eliminate it. My hosts file now looks like this on the server..

192.168.0.9 obsidian
192.168.0.10 talshiar.site talshiar PETES_TREE

If anyone (jclient or some other NCP client on the server) ever wants to talk to PETES_TREE, they go to talshiar first, the master replica of the root partition.

That might save someone an hour or two. I could have done with this today.

Stylesheet change..

July 19th, 2005

I had the misfortune to read this site on a Windows PC today, and almost went blind in the process. Apologies to any IE users who have tried to read anything here – I’m colour blind, devoid of talent with CSS and using Firefox on Linux.

Hopefully you can now see the text against the background. I swear, it’s always been legible on FF & Linux!

Some people have too much anger

July 18th, 2005

“I’m easy to get on with….”

Via Warren Ellis

Firefox 1.05 broken.

July 18th, 2005

It looks like Firefox 1.05 has a few problems with extensions, mainly due to the API changes that were done. I’m using (or rather, was using) the official Googlebar for firefox and it’s dead, straight after I updated last night.

I suppose I may as well take the time waiting for the fix (early next week, I believe) to have a look at Deer Park alpha 2, the next major release of firefox.

Bad Behavior has blocked 106 access attempts in the last 7 days.

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