Whilst sorting out my computer’s system time after a weird BIOS crash that reset it, I found this page. From right at the bottom: Please address queries about NTP within the University to timelord@ucs.cam.ac.uk This just serves to remind us all, once again, of how old the University of Cambridge really is…
The last few days have been pretty busy. I had my last exam yesterday, and am now, free, free as a bird… well, sorta. Free apart from all the things I’ve promised to do in the next couple of weeks. Meh. Managed to fall off my bike this morning due to a random failure in [...]
I don’t normally post things like this. You are under no obligation to read or act on this – obviously. But if you’re feeling bored and generous, click through on this link. It’s to a site called “Greasy Palm”, which gives me money if you sign up via that link. You’re welcome to sign up [...]
You’ve installed something from package repositories, and, on invoking, it tells you to actually run a certain script first. The script fails because you’re behind a proxy server, but you don’t know where Aptitude put the script in order to edit it. You know it’s in your $PATH, but that’s a lot of directories… Solution [...]
So, this site was down for a couple of weeks, due to an unspecified security flaw in WordPress 2.3, which had compromised a number of the WordPress installations on this server. Not mine – my archives are all still intact – but the sysadmins took the sensible precaution of disabling all wordpress installations on the [...]