A friend just pointed me to Liberating Knowledge: A Librarian's Manifesto for Change by Barbara Fister, an academic librarian who also happens to write mystery novels.
She has an excellent perspective on the meaning of libraries, and the tradeoffs involved with the current societal trend toward privatizing knowledge through so-called …
Someone recently pointed me to some economic/statistical models that were designed for eviews (a proprietary tool).
They were looking for help converting the model into a format that could work with gretl (the Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library). I'm afraid i'm an economics dunce, and i have no …
i suspect a lot of people are used to forwarding TCP sockets with SSH --
for example, to connect locally to a mysql daemon that runs only on the
loopback interface of a remote machine (this is debian's default
mysql-server configuration):
ssh -N -T -oExitOnForwardFailure=yes -L 3306:localhost:3306 remoteuser …i've been on an IPv6 kick recently, getting dual-stack systems up and working for a bunch of folks.
I'd like to make some of these services reachable by IPv6-only clients. this suggests that i need a range of details sorted out, but i think the one piece left for me …
Debian NYC will be holding a workshop next week: What's in a Package? will happen at 7:00pm New York time on October 27, 2010. If you're in the New York area, interested in packaging things for debian and related systems, or just want to understand the packages in your …
Roland Mas writes an interesting article about decentralized naming, in which he says:
Monkeysphere aims at adding a web of trust to the SSL certificates system, but the CA chain problem seems to persist (although I must admit I'm not up to speed with the actual details).
Since i'm one …
If you're not using ssh-agent to authenticate yourself to SSH servers,
you should be. (i'm assuming you're already using
PubkeyAuthentication; if you're still using PasswordAuthentication,
ChallengeResponseAuthentication or KbdInteractiveAuthentication, fix
that please).
You should use ssh-agent for a number of reasons, actually, but the
simplest is this: when you authenticate to …
Apparently, live.com thinks that any browser coming from a ppc architecture is a mobile device. This sucks for the users of the hundreds of thousands of powerpc desktops still in service.
I don't use hotmail myself, but i do support people who use it. I set one of my …
A year ago, i wrote about how New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) requires the use of Internet Explorer to apply online (and it even appears to require IE just to download the PDF of the application!)
Sadly, the situation has not changed, a year later. Today, I'm …
I'm helping out on the talks committee for debconf 10 this summer in NYC (so yes, i'm going to be here for it, even though i don't have that little badge thingy). This is a call for interested folks to let us know what you want to see at debconf …