I'm migrating all our servers to a new host, which seems like a good opportunity to fix some annoying things.

In particular email: At the moment we're using exim4 and some pop3 server or another and squirrel-mail.

Whenever they ask me to create a new email account, I have to add a new user account for the whole machine. Making an /etc/passwd entry, giving shell access (which I then take away again), making a home directory etc. All just so they can collect email.

This seems inefficent

My wiki's always had lots of spam. Mostly links to porn and viagra sites. You block what you can, revert the rest, and curse the wankers who write those bots for financial gain.

Lately though, I've been getting edits from bots that just put a single nonsense word a the top of the page. Words like "rellachizela" or "getsit" or "olodaracelt" with no link and no other text. I mean. I can't even see what the point of that is. Why on earth would you do that? Even the robots have gone insane.

So at work I have this massive monitor, more than two thousand pixels across, huge display. Makes it actually possible to fit all those damned Flash Development windows on the screen so you can see what you're doing and actually get some work done.

Today, however, I'm working from home. At home my monitor isn't quite so beefy. It can only cope with about 1600 pixels across.

Which wouldn't be a problem, except my lappy is set to 2048 pixels and the only way to switch it back is to plug it into a monitor that'll show 2048 pixels so you can see the damned resolution-switching screen

So since Telewest/NTL/Virgin are dropping Sky One from their service, seems like I'm likely to have to download all the stuff that I was watching on that channel. Which means I might as well ditch the entire cable TV service really given that I've already seen all the shows they have on constant repeat everywhere else.

Might well just build myself a MythTV box I should think, with a couple of freeview DTV cards and a nice fat bittorrent connection. Finally merge my computer and telly like I've been meaning to for ages.

So I've been uploading video from the Subgenius Devival as I get around to editing it into nicely sized clips. Put up a track from Motty's band "Fit And The Conniptions" today. Look at him curiously jigging and singing and playing guitar.

Don't think the embed tag will work here so you'll have to look at http://dalliance.net/ Motty's at the top at the moment, chapter five.

Theophile made me look at my tab-bar and see what I've got open at the moment. What do YOU have open at the moment?

I can't post a you-tube embed thing here can I? Pah. You'll have to have a link to my website then, where the first of the videos from the Devival this November is up.

So I finally put up my devival report, it's got some pictures and everything.

Everyone here except Motty missed out by missing it. Oh yes.

Below the fold: Poor programers

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See how I dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZvrygwnHQ