http://johnleach.co.uk/words Stuff I think, see and do Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:20:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en # apt-get install hello # hello Hello, world! # hello --help Usage: hello [OPTION]... Print a friendly, customisable greeting. -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --version display version information and exit -t, --traditional use traditional greeting format -n, --next-generation use next-generation ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/07/14/317/ The Open Rights Group are a UK based organisation fighting for our civil liberties in the digital age. DRM, e-voting, copyright term extensions, FOI, net neutrality, privacy, RIPA, creative commons etc.etc.etc.etc.etc. They're like an English EFF. They have a tiny staff and many other volunteers who are extremely dedicated to ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/07/11/316/ Further to my post about getting the MoinMoin wiki system working with FastCGI and Lighttpd, here is how to do the same with NGINX. MoinMoin is configured in FastCGI mode and listening on port 9005 All the fastcgi_param lines up to PATH_INFO are pretty generic and I have them in ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/06/29/315/ I have a corrupt Reiser filesystem that needs a tree rebuild on it, which can be a scary thing to do (and is only advised when you *really* do need to do it which, unfortunately, I do). Now, this filesystem largely works, there is just a small part of it that ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/06/05/313/ I wrote a little plugin for rbot that follows a user on Twitter and announces any twits of its friends on irc. I registered a dedicated twitter account for our irc channel and had it follow everyone in the channel who has a Twitter account.  When they twit, we get an ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/05/25/312/ Check out (pun!) Giggle, a graphical frontend for the git distributed revision control system.  Cute name and much lovelier than gitk. It's pretty new but already does a lot, and more is planned.  See the screeny. http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/04/27/311/ Quick one - thought was was cute and useful.  I take a copy of live databases once in a while for use in the staging environments, but some apps have references to the live url in the there (Wordpress does this and makes all its redirects using it, making it ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/04/26/310/ Broken Bus Window form back in 2005. http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/04/20/309/ I'm speaking next Tuesday (15th April 2008) at the Manchester Free Software about my geeky web comic, Everybody Loves Eric Raymond. Apparently people are still interested in it even though it hasn't been updated since December! Hooray! It'll be a bit of a mix of the two talks I've ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/04/08/307/ This bug regarding the Nautilus image thumbnailer performance was reported almost 6 years ago.  It had input on it at the rate of around one message every two months, up until the end of 2003 - then nothing until 2006, where duplicate bug reports start coming in pretty regularly until ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/04/05/306/ I'm in Prague with Brightbox for the Euruko Ruby Conference 2008 from tomorrow evening until Monday morning. I'll post photos to the Brightbox Flickr photostream as we go along.  If anyone wants to meet up for a drink, email me at john at johnleach dotty co dotty uk. UPDATE: Photos here. http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/03/27/305/ The public can see for themselves the ‘neutral’ media language used to describe Israeli actions: ‘incursion’, ‘retaliation’, ‘military operations’. By contrast, Israel endures ‘terrorist attacks’, ‘slaughter’, ‘a bloodbath’. Careful analysis by Greg Philo and Mike Berry, of the Glasgow University Media Group, found a persistent, ugly pattern: “In our samples of ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/03/11/304/ The Leeds offshoot of the North West Ruby User Group is meeting again this Thursday, 6th March, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM.  This time at Mr. Foley's Cask Ale House, on The Headrow (formerly Dr. Okells). Expect unstructured discussion of Ruby, Ruby on Rails and other random stuff plus nice people, great ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/03/04/303/ Just felt what at first I thought was a heavy gust of wind but what then very quickly became an earthquake. We're in Leeds but quickly got reports from friends over instant messenger, irc and twitter that it's been felt elsewhere in Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Nottingham. I'm hearing the collective ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/02/27/300/ A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. BBC News WikiLeaks and its domain registrar for the wikileaks.org domain name, Dynadot, have been sued by the Swiss Bank Julius Baer, because of leaks claiming illegal activities at the bank's Cayman ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/02/19/299/ Roses are red, Violets are blue, I tried to buy some for you but an error occurred during a connection to www.valentinesflowers4u.co.uk SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length error code ssl_error_rx_record_too_long. http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/02/15/298/ The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/02/15/297/ Louisa took it, but I'm in it. http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/02/10/295/ Some of the people of the North West Ruby User Group (who usually meet in Manchester) have organised the first little Leeds get together.  No real name yet, so it's the Leeds Ruby Thing for now. No clear plan yet either, but expect unstructured discussion of Ruby and Ruby on Rails ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/02/03/294/ To briskly continue my regular series of cooking blog posts (previous post March 1st 2005) I present the vegetable dopiaza. I made one last night and it was yum, though I do admit to having been overly generous with all the spices - which I like but Louisa doesn't. Things ... http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2008/01/31/293/