Static in the Ether » PhD http://lair.moria.org/blog Unix, Information Security & Systems Administration Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:14:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Cleaning up… http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/201 http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/201#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:11:32 +0000 Barry Irwin http://lair.moria.org/blog/?p=201 With the year almost half gone,  and Winter Solstice almost a distant memory, its time to catch up with some of the systems related housekeeping. While conficker seems to still be rampaging around from my scan log inspections, the Conficker Working Group has been quite since late April. A far greater threat to civilization is that  coming from North Korea.  Some of the sysadmin type work done include:

  • migrating the host for this blog, along with pretty much all my other FreeBSD boxes to FreeBSD 7.2.
  • Trying out the new jail(8) features in 7.2 particularly the multip  ip and ipv6 support
  • A move to wordpress 2.8, which while the upgrade was pretty painless Ive ruin into some hastles with plugins that break the nice widget selection system  under the admin panel – most notable of the plugins I’ve notice d causing this is wp-recapcha. Along with this has been a migration to somethign alittle more elegant than the boring Kubric Theme.
  • A pilot version of my new squid external_acl  filtering software is being tested by two sites, so far with positive results.

Progress on the phd is plodding on with growing collection of rather interesting images and plots generation that I now need to try fathom and write about. with the university now on vac I should be able to make good progress in this direction.

One of the most fascinating and gripping books I have read in a while is Ed Macy’s Apache, which is well worth a read if you are into military biographies.

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