Author: David Goodwin

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12

    RT @brucel So *that's* what Facebook is for http://strikegently.tumblr.com/post/2172591844 # Open fire, draught hobgoblin, no modern music. Nice pub. #Loughborough #thewhitehart # Wondering what all the people are queuing for – off Holloway Circus (Birmingham). # Bromsgrove roundtable's sleigh looks great. (On the high street now. ) # Exim #security #fail http://lwn.net/Articles/419495/ # It only…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-05

    .@rowangoodwin is still asleep. I wish I was. He's heading for 15 hours (with a few minor interruptions to be sick etc). # RT @Pewari Today’s xkcd is *awesome*: http://www.xkcd.com/829/ # At approximately 10:30am a tin of Roses was delivered to our office. By 3pm the tin was empty. # The car thinks it's -10'c…

  • WordPress – selective proxy / firewalling

    As mentioned before, I block most webservers I’m responsible for from making port 80 outbound requests. This helps reduce the likelihood of someone exploiting a vulnerability on one of the sites – as Apache wouldn’t be able to download some sort of root kit and so on. Anyway, the firewall bit is relatively easy…. (This…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28

    I'm at the great shrine to Christmas – Webbs 'garden' centre. # I love waiting in a car queue. It makes my day. # Fixed Adium Facebook account – recreated using jabber protocol. Before users weren't appearing online. # RT @madeupstats Despite legal threats, the makers of Lynx deodorant won't stop us from informing you…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21

    Wondering why a restaurant doesn't have it's opening times on it's website. #fail # Hockey: Bromsgrove 4ths v stourport, 5-0 win 🙂 # This toddler sized hot water bottle is quite good. # Not sure why Lord Young resigned; I think he's right (the recession hasn't been that bad… dealing with the debt from it…

  • Pidgin / MSN – ‘Unable to validate certificate’

    Yesterday, I was forced to do some work, at work, when Pidgin failed to connect to MSN. It has a hard day. I use Ubuntu Maverick on my desktop, and started out using the ‘stock’ Ubuntu version. As this wasn’t working, my first thought was to upgrade to the latest Pidgin release. Before I’ve compiled…

  • Gregynog

    Once a year, Aberystwyth’s Computer Science department take their second year students to Gregynog, for the purpose of preparing them for job interviews (mostly for the upcoming industrial year placements many students take between years 2 and 3). I’ve attended this for the last few years as an ‘Industrialist’ and help run mock interviews. Initially…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

    OH: @bryns 'we're not water boarding them yet' … #Gregynog # .@bryns has made a student cry during interviews. Result! #Gregynog @abercompsci # The Sat Nav entrance. Nice. http://twitpic.com/36eix1 #gregynog # Let's try http://www.favoriterun.com/295867 – you know where to send search and rescue if I blow up and fail to return. #annualGregynogRun # http://twitpic.com/368u7s the…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

    OH: @bryns 'we're not water boarding them yet' … #Gregynog # .@bryns has made a student cry during interviews. Result! #Gregynog @abercompsci # The Sat Nav entrance. Nice. http://twitpic.com/36eix1 #gregynog # Let's try http://www.favoriterun.com/295867 – you know where to send search and rescue if I blow up and fail to return. #annualGregynogRun # http://twitpic.com/368u7s the…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

    OH: @bryns 'we're not water boarding them yet' … #Gregynog # .@bryns has made a student cry during interviews. Result! #Gregynog @abercompsci # The Sat Nav entrance. Nice. http://twitpic.com/36eix1 #gregynog # Let's try http://www.favoriterun.com/295867 – you know where to send search and rescue if I blow up and fail to return. #annualGregynogRun # http://twitpic.com/368u7s the…