This is just a quick test post using the wordpress plugin for my new iPhone.
I’m so in love with this phone it’s awesome and makes my life on the road a million times better and more productive, plus it keeps me entertained too!
You may remember back to last year, when Estonia, one of the most internet savvy, connected countries in the world, came under a widespread and well documented cyber attack, originating for the most part in Russia, and in response to some political moves that were being made in the country at the time.
I’ve just read an interesting paper, written in non-technical terms on the background and implications of the event, both on Estonia, and also on the wider world as we face into a new era of potential cyber warfare. If this sounds of interest to you, I suggest that you take a read.
Is anyone else having problems subscribing to new feeds in Google Reader today? I’ve tried to subscribe to three different feeds, and each one of them has been giving me problems! Not something I’m used to in the usually flawless Google Reader!
Ever wondered how to build a submarine fibre optic cable? PIPE Networks are a large carrier / IXP here in Oz, and are in the process of building a much needed submarine cable between Sydney and Guam. I’ve met with Bob, their Network Architect and he told me about some pretty crazy and cool stuff that they are doing, and it looks like the project is going to be a huge success for them.
They have decided, rather unusually for such a project, to be very open and transparent about how they are going about it, and you can find lots of details over on their website which includes a blog that you can subscribe to in order to stay up to date with the project!
For a very long time, I have longed for a decent to-do list. Better again, one that was online, allowing me to access it from anywhere. I’ve tried out a few different solutions over the years, but none have really worked for me.
Today, I discovered Remember The Milk, a very cool, Australian developed website, that is rapidly growing in popularity and features. There are currently over 500,000 users of RTM, so I’m guessing with those kind of numbers, there must be something exciting going on!
So far, I’m very impressed, I can hook it into my Google Calendar, allowing me to view as well as create tasks there, as well as create tasks via email and the web etc. Only thing that I would like to see is a Google Desktop plugin, but, I think I’m going to be hooked regardless!
I now work in a predominately MS Windows environment. Yes, I still have UNIX servers to look after, and Cisco kit all around the country to play with, but, most of the users here are Windows users. To that end, I’m currently install Windows Vista on my laptop! The thought of doing that makes me shudder a little, I’ve heard nothing but bad about Vista, and, given I haven’t used Windows hands on as my main OS in about 5 years, I’m not looking forward to figuring out all the bugs and problems that I encounter! Hopefully I can at least use my experiences to make migrating any users here to Vista a lot easier.
If you have been having problems with installing cacti on ubuntu like I just have, this little pointer should help.
There is a bug in the current cacti package that’s sitting in the gutsy mirrors, which will result in you getting the following helpful (not!) errors when you go to log in:
Invalid PHP_SELF Path
This applies to both fresh installs and OS upgrades also.
To work around this, you will need to downgrade to a working package:
sudo aptitude install cacti=0.8.6j-1.1
That should do the trick, until the mirrors are updated with a working version
I’ve just had this pointed out to me! Somewhat strange irony (and if you’re not a geek, you won’t get it!)
daragh@leffe:~$ whois as666
OrgName: US Army Combat Systems Test Activity
OrgID: UACSTA
Address: Commander, USACSTA
City: Aberdeen Proving Ground
StateProv: MD
PostalCode:
Country: USASNumber: 666
ASName: CSTA-CISCO-AS
ASHandle: AS666
And people say they’re working, and not on a junket!! 
Ooh, this is interesting. To me, the killer feature lacking from Google’s great Gmail was the lack of IMAP mail support. In fact, it’s probably the biggest reason why I moved all my mail away from Gmail last year and over onto my own server. But, there are some reports starting to filter through that Google is starting to add IMAP support to Gmail accounts. This is most interesting, and certainly something well worth investigating. Especially so if you’re someone, like me, who likes to use a mail client as opposed to Gmail’s web interface, and also uses multiple machines throughout the day.
UPDATE: It appears that they are only offering this to a limited number of people at the moment (of which I am not one) and I’m not sure what it takes to get yourself enabled. Added to that, when I search for IMAP in the Gmail support site, I get told that they don’t currently support IMAP! 
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