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It’s been a while since we’ve updated our OpenBSD notes, but hopefully that trend will disappear for the next couple of years.

I’ve got a proper job again, unfortunately that long-term vacation, retirement plan in Tonga finally came to end with the old guy needing company and the kids getting to the point where ya gotta just deal with it.

Part of the new job includes maintaining quite a number of OpenBSD machines, whittling away the other Unix boxes, and training other System Administrators on how this BSD stuff works. Great opportunity for not just updating the old, decaying notes, but seriously looking at revamping fixing them so they have some other purpose.

Some of the updates include:

- whittling away the straight html and looking at creating the core notes using markdown or rst as the markup languages (should significantly simplify the updating process for the notes.)

- new: OpenVPN Server/Client, WAN

- new: Redundant/High Availability Firewalls using CARP

- new: Mail Proxy using Postfix

- new: diagnostics, testing pages

- new: planning, auditing your user accounts

- updates: samba, postfix, mail server testing

Hope it’s useful somewhere, out there.

This past Sunday was our children’s day at church and the kids really had a great time.

Is Sione Halasika related to Mohenoa Puloka ?

While the rest of the Sunday School were off on their Action Songs, Sione Halasika was doing a Haka version of the songs.

Hmmmm, or it might be his relationship with Salesi 8-)

With Sione’s revisited Actions, all the kids were involved

See the rest of the photos, over at:

With four little kids running around screaming their heads off, it’s time to really get down and look at how are we going to help with these kid’s education.

Strangely enough there’s a youtube story to that.

http://www.khanacademy.org

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

We have 1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan.

Looked at one of his videos and they really are good!!!

It’s not a classroom teaching video, it’s about using the video technology as appropriate for the material being taught (oh what a strange concept?)

I’ve watched, listened to a lot of University Course Videos/Audios and they are horrendous except for the diehard fanatic. Salman Khan’s videos is something that would be interesting and participatory to the learner, not just informational.

Grab a copy, go online.

The Millennium Trilogy is a series of three bestselling novels written by Stieg Larsson. The novels in the series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, were first published in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively.

The primary characters in the series are Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Lisbeth is an intelligent, eccentric woman in her twenties with a photographic memory whose social skills are rather poor. Blomkvist is an investigative journalist, a celebrity in his own right, and has a history not totally dissimilar to Larsson's own.

The trilogy has been made into three films:

• The first Män som hatar kvinnor (literally Men Who Hate Women or as the book is known in English-speaking markets The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) is available on DVD, but in Swedish with Scandinavian and English languages subtitles only.
• The second, Flickan som lekte med elden (The Girl Who Played with Fire), had a cinema release on September 18, 2009.
• The third, Luftslottet som sprängdes (literally The Air Castle That Exploded, but known in English-speaking markets as The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) had a cinema release on November 27, 2009.

Larsson wrote about three quarters of a fourth novel before his sudden death in November 2004. His partner, Eva Gabrielsson, possesses the notebook computer with the manuscript; outlines or manuscripts for one or two more books may exist.^[1][2]

Yeah, yeah, it was a couple of weeks ago.

 But I totally forgot that I could share it this way (without putting a load on the Nomoa server)

The 26th of January is a public holiday in Australia to celebrate the Nation. Unlikely Americans who have a thirst for the selection of their national day, those I’ve met in Australia just take it as a day off to have a party or break.

Sione Halasika, our youngest son, fourth in the tree, had his birthday on the 25th, just shy of the national holiday. But as we wanted to have some close friends over, we had the national holiday as an excuse to share his birthday with family and friends.

Of course, since we were a bit mamio in getting things planned we didn’t get to invite people until the week before hand. Some made it, others didn’t.

‘Ofa made some wonderful dishes, which I complemented with seriously paku BBQ (pa pa kiu.) Obviously the English phase/word BBQ derives from the Tongan papaku meaning seriously burnt from existence.

‘Ofa put her hands up and made some Lu Kapapulu, Sea-food salad, potatoe salad, while I managed to add on burnt lamb chops, and burnt beef sausages, burnt winglets, burnt drumsticks topped with burnt chicken kebabs. The onions were good though, but unfortunately we forgot it and didn’t put it out on the table.

Grandpa Sisi prayed for the young man’s well being while we gathered with family and friends to wish the old fella a happy birthday and best wishes for his life.

From your mum, dad, siblings, family and friends,

Happy Birthday Sione Halasika.

Summary:

If you believe all the hype that spins around about network/internet security, especially coming out of politicians kept in office through exposing their “hands on technology” or espoused by news/forums that get their money by the ‘eye balls count’ then I have some beach front property in Tofoa to sell you.

If you believe, then you need a course in Media Studies 101, how to sell junk while making people believe you’ve served them well.

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There’s a little storm in a teacup brewing around the blogosphere, news outlets pushing for IE to be replaced because it’s been used (and identified) by Google as a vector for stealing intellectual property from corporates such as themselves.

Apart from the obvious self-serving nature of the “information release.”

Two immediate questions come to mind.

Are Google desktops running Windows 98 or Windows 2000 ? It’s pretty hard to ignore (not get updated) IE7 on Windows XP, and if you’re workstation is kept up to date, then it’s most likely got IE8.

The attack targeted IE6 and Adobe Acrobat(?) so how are these vanguards of technology to be trusted if they’re critical infrastructures are run on 10 year-old software.

I can’t really see how IE6 could be used against Google unless they really hate their own browser (what’s it’s name?) that they would have IE6 still running on their corporate network equipment.

Or, maybe Google have all their accounting systems running on Windows NT or Windows 2000 servers, and no-one secured them properly (why is the administrator on that box doing e-mail and browsing the internet on the server?)

Don’t trust Windows for what you show the world, but run all your internal critical stuff on it?

Google used to be the see no evil, do no evil, company, but they sure like to play tight with announcements and the repercussions of those statements.

If you want to educate yourself instead of trash talking, I suggest the following reads:

Google, China, Chicken Little and Cyber Armageddon. at TrendMicro by Rik Ferguson

China vs. Google (et al) via MSIE... – Stop the Bus at Preach Security by Rafal Los