Category: General
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Weekend
It was a good weekend. Saturday was Kevin’s (Karen’s brother) Buck & Doe. I had a really good time. I got to be the barbeque guy which is always lots of fun at a big party. I wish I knew how many hamburgers we cooked. Only bad part of the day was the mild sunburn…
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Secure remote backup
Secure remote Linux backups with GNUPG, SSH (SCP) and tar.
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Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the…
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Linux QoS API update
My Linux QoS library is coming along nicely. It took me a few days but I changed the whole API to be based on GObject. The main reason for this time consuming change is to make bindings to other languages easier. Primarly I am interested in Mono and Python bindings. As much as I love…
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Political Compass
Political Compass is an interesting site. It asks you to fill out a short questionnaire and then gives you a rating of where you stand on the political map. For reference the site also gives the values for some famous people like Hitler, Stallin and Ghandi. My location according to this site is Economic Left/Right:…
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Ironic
It’s particularly ironic that a few hours after I had posted my little rant on Police fund raising I discovered that the drivers side window had been smashed out of Karen’s car and the steering wheel ripped apart. Looks like some pretty stupid theives. It was around midnight when I noticed this. At ~05:00 I…
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Linux QoS API
My wrapper library for the Linux QoS system is coming along nicely. Here are the function calls necessary to add a filter that matches the destination field in the IP header. filt = classifier_u32_new(); classifier_u32_set_class(filt, class); classifier_u32_set_priority(filt, 5); classifier_u32_set_protocol(filt, IP); classifier_u32_set_interface(filt, 3); classifier_u32_add_match_ip_dst(filt, “x.x.x.x”); if (!qos_classifier_u32_add(con, filt)) { g_print(“Adding filter failed.n”); } I am now…
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Canadian Election
Well it looks like there will be a minority Liberal government in Canada this term. Considering the polls said the Conservatives might form a minority government the final numbers are pretty surprising. For anyone reading this outside of Canada the Liberals have held a strong majority in parliament for the last three terms. Ontario, Canada’s…
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Canadian Copyright
I found a couple of interesting articles with respect to changes in Canadian Copyright law. It’s scary to see the Copyright battle start in Canada. As in the US it looks like the pro restriction groups are doing their best to make sure they dominate the process. The Star has two articles here and here.…
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Friday
Had a nice easy going Friday night. No homework or other work related things. First went to the London International Airfest. It was a great show. This is the first time I have gone to the Friday evening show. Though there were still a lot of people, it was no where near as busy as…