apt-file

Why didn't anyone tell me about apt-file before? This is a essential for developing on a debian-based Linux distribution.

/tech/linux | 24 Jan 2007 | #

LinuxSA January 2007 - EMACS: The only program you ever need. Also edits text.

  Hi all,
  
  Time for the January meeting reminder (it's tomorrow)...
  
  The usual details:
  
   When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
           Tuesday, 23rd January, 2007
   Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
           of South Australia (SSABSA)
           Boardroom (1st floor)
           60 Greenhill Road
           Wayville SA
   Cost:   FREE
   Who:    Anyone and everyone.
           No pre-registration necessary.

  Presentation:

   Greg Lehey will be giving a talk on "EMACS: The only program you
   ever need.  Also edits text."

   Greg Lehey is a developer in the FreeBSD and NetBSD projects, and a
   former member of the FreeBSD core team.  He has been in the computer
   industry for nearly 35 years, many of them spent in Germany.  In
   this time he has performed most jobs, ranging from kernel
   development to product management, from systems programming to
   systems administration, from processing satellite data to
   programming petrol pumps, from the production of CD-ROMs of ported
   free software to DSP instruction set design.  He is the author of
   "Porting UNIX Software" (O'Reilly and Associates, 1995) and "The
   Complete FreeBSD" (O'Reilly and Associates, 2003).
  
   He is also an awful Emacs bigot.

  Pizza:
  
   After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
   Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
  
  For more information:

   Email:        organisers@linuxsa.org.au
   Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
   Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
   IRC:          #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net

/tech/LinuxSA | 22 Jan 2007 | #

SHA-1 not considered safe

So I don't know how I missed this:

Federal agencies should stop using SHA-1 for digital signatures, digital time stamping and other applications that require collision resistance as soon as practical, and must use the SHA-2 family of hash functions for these applications after 2010

Both MD5 and SHA-1 aren't safe as previously mentioned - but having an advisory indicating that you should stay away from SHA-1-series algorithms is biting.

Here's a paper on the implications on S/MIME, TLS and IPSEC. This is something that really should be considered soon.

/tech/code | 21 Jan 2007 | #

LCA2007 rocks

So from all reports linux.conf.au 2007 rocked. Well done Seven!

Now it's time to block out time next year for linux.conf.au 2008 (aka Mel8ourne 2008). I'll be doing that when I return to work.

Now of course I missed LCA this year, but for really good reasons :-) So in response to those asking where I was - Nathaniel was born just a few days before the conference opening. Next year LCA, next year :-)

/tech/linux-australia/lca2007 | 20 Jan 2007 | #

Following the meme...

As a result of sjh's prod - here are 5 things not generally known about me... Hmmm...

• I've found peace with God and hang out at this church every week;
• I worked as an Ada programmer for 8 years straight out of uni before going more mainstream with C/C++/C#/Python/Java etc;
• I've had several knee operations including fixing a snapped ACL;
• I once took 7/24 bowling leg-spin in a 2 day game;
• I have a plan to hike around Wilpena Pound in 3 days once my kids are old enough.

Other people I'd like to hear from: James Cormack, mbp, mikal, Erik and Michael Neuling. I'd like to hear from g, Glen Turner and Dan Shearer, but alas they don't blog!

/tech/misc | 11 Jan 2007 | #

Just some photos

/photos | 05 Jan 2007 | #

The Working Environment

Well, Martin Fowler agrees,  every developer should work on a 21 inch screen. These days I say that everyone should have at least two 20 inch screens .

Now that's settled, let's think about redesigning the office - morphing the workspace into a Bionic Office.

/tech/sweng | 04 Jan 2007 | #