Monthly Archives: November 2010

Kiwicon 2010

I’m spending all weekend at Kiwicon 2010, a IT security/hacking/cracking conference being held in Wellington – this is the 4th Kiwicon, I’ve been to each once since the beginning and it just keeps getting better and better every year. It’s … Continue reading

Tagged , | Leave a comment

30 days of geek running late

For those of you following 30 days of geek, apologies, but I’ve an extremely busy week so running a little bit behind. Will try and catch up soon as soon as one large project is out of the way. :-(

Tagged | 1 Comment

Day 21 – Favourite thing & worst things about working in IT?

This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. Overall IT is great and I really can’t see myself doing anything else with as much love and enthusiasm as I have for IT. :-) Things I love: The … Continue reading

Tagged , | Leave a comment

Day 20 – Where do you stand on Internet Censorship?

This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. I’m totally against internet censorship, whether that’s full blown censorship (eg china style) or the western so-called “child-porn filtering”. The fact is, any system capable of censoring the internet … Continue reading

Tagged , | Leave a comment

Day 19 – Most hated computing environment.

This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. I’m sure there’s not a lot of doubt about what this post is going to be…. I hate MS windows with a passion – the main reasons being: It’s … Continue reading

Tagged , | Leave a comment

Day 18 – Most cringe-worthy geek moment

This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. Oh dear, where do I start on this? There’s just so many, I can’t help myself, they just happen, it’s a side effect of being a massive geek who … Continue reading

Tagged | Leave a comment

Day 17 – Post a useful HOWTO to solve a challenge you’ve come across recently.

This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. I had wanted to post about setting up Solaris 10 with OpenLDAP but my notes need more refining than what I have time for ATM, so instead there’s a … Continue reading

Tagged | Leave a comment

Automatically creating home directories at login time

One of the initial problems I’ve found after setting up LDAP or some other centralised user information and authentication system, is that unless there’s shared storage mounted on all the servers, you need to manually create home directories for users. … Continue reading

Tagged | Leave a comment

Day 16 – First computer you’ve ever owned & your favourite ever

This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. My first computer would technically have been some long-forgotten i386 that I played around with for a bit, however what I would consider my first true computer was the … Continue reading

Tagged | 2 Comments

github and IT professionalism

By now many people will have heard about the github service outage triggered by an accidental drop of their database. (read their blog post on the issue here) A few people on Twitter started attacking the github people for making … Continue reading

Tagged , | 8 Comments