rms @ DMU

The Free Software Movement

Our friend Dr Richard M Stallman was on good form for his talk in Leicester and gave a good thoughtful monologue for The Free Software Movement and how he came to embark on his path promoting such a cause. He briefly covered how the combination of GNU (operating system) and Linux . . . → Read More: rms @ DMU

ARHHGTTG

… Or not to be confused with Agrajag who’s name uses different letters even if the poor creature has had as many reincarnations as has the show, books, films, and more, towards the ultimate moment of 42… 😉

And that was really good fun! Even more so for those that followed the original apocalyptically different . . . → Read More: ARHHGTTG

Wandering to a Shabab

Simply:

That was a rather good combination 🙂 …

Excellent stuff! Good beer at the Organ Grinder, along with good food and good service at the Shabab Nan Kebab. Indeed, the Shabab appears to be almost timeless in staying consistently good! (So traditional and timeless as to not even be on the web 😛 )

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Howto Abuse DNS to Blacklist/Block Sites

This is yet another utility for converting the format of one or more hosts files listing nasty or nefarious or advertising/tracking or other unwanted sites and domains to be blacklisted, into a zones list format suitable to be included into a bind9 config file. (Note: “bind9” is called “named” on some Linux distributions.)

Greater detail . . . → Read More: Howto Abuse DNS to Blacklist/Block Sites

Derby Makings

Just back from the Derby Maker Faire, and there was a good fun collection being demoed and ‘experimented’ with 🙂

I took a few pictures towards the end to show a little of the fun!

(Disclaimer: I’m nothing to do with that lot… Just visiting 🙂 )

Enjoy, Martin

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