Archive for January, 2006

for that special person in your life…

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

We found this whilst we were shopping in Coles Belconnen the week before last. I think someone in their purchasing area needs to read their orders more carefully.

Multiple LDAP directories with FreeRADIUS

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Yet another eduROAM derived post. But finally, I have a win. For those that doubt, it is possible to get FreeRADIUS talking to two seperate LDAP trees. ldap student { server = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" ...

5 minutes of fame…

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

So, one of the things we had to do for eduroam (hi Chris!) was create some server side certificates for FreeRADIUS. Chris Myers asked for a (cleaned up and working) copy of his script to go on the tech section of the website, and thus, cascript was born. This small ...

Contracting Hell

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Normally, with things as quiet as they are at this time of year, I take on a few short term or short time contracts to keep the money coming in. This year, one of my clients, a large University (who shall remain nameless) contracted me for most of November, December ...

whoops

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Correct link to handling images is here. mummble mummble stupid cut and paste mummble mummble

Monday, January 9th, 2006

For those in any doubt as to the best way to deal with images in webpages with our multitude of progamming languages, formatting and image types, take a look at this Artistry at work. Part of me wants to clap, part of me wants to cry.

I know pizza’s are crap, but…

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Seeing as none of us could be arsed to cook, we declared last night take away night. Headed down to the local Dominos where they can't seem to read the STAFF on my (old) University ID, and therefore always give us Student price, and pickup the goods. Get home, first bite ...

Dangerous Christmas lights

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the #1 reason why geeks should not be allowed near christmas lights. By all means pass it around, but let me know if you are going to send a million people the link so I can at least explain to the upstream provider why his ...