Tango with Evil
Anyone who is feeling generous, feel free to buy me this poster, called "Tango with Evil". It's my desktop background.
(courtesy of fuzzix)

I'm growing it back, assuming I'm allowed. I look about 12 now. Christian Schaller and Edward Hervey, who I now hate, reminded me of this not less than once an hour from the time of shaving until the moment they left, so I have decided that we should stop using gstreamer for Jokosher and start using jack or something instead.Six years you've had to fix it. Six years.
A microchip which can store information like a hard drive has been unveiled by US company Freescale... "This is the most significant memory introduction in this decade," said Will Strauss, an analyst with research firm Forward Concepts... Mram chips could one day be used in PCs to store an operating system, allowing computers to start up faster when switched on.What, you mean like my Acorn Electron did QUARTER OF A CENTURY ago?
url entry in changeSignature (this isn't an easy user process, because I just hacked this script together for me) to point at a fortune file. Fortune files have each signature separated by a % on a blank line.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox python jackfield/Control.py start showing (if you've got it checked out in a directory called "jackfield", or you can start an individual widget with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox python jackfield/Widget.py /path/to/WidgetDir/.
These hints should be enough to get you started. Let me know if they are not!
(They'll go into a readme file in the project at some point, but I want to make it easier to run this stuff first.)
If you are too, post the following to your weblog:
<a href="http://www.lugradio.org/live/2006"><img
src="http://lugradio.org/live/2006/siteimages/badge_imgoing1.png"
alt="I'm going to LugRadio Live 2006"></a>
There are different buttons for different people: if you're a speaker or an exhibitor, or you'd like the light-coloured button rather than the dark one, please see http://lugradio.org/live/2006/index.php/Buttons for more; go there now, get the code for the button you want, and post it to your weblog!
cut -d" " -f1 /var/log/apache2/kryogenix.org-access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -5
which gave me
324 217.112.126.122
381 81.133.81.248
421 82.108.113.14
2060 213.249.154.101
2391 81.159.133.111
Those last two are a bit high, I think; two thousand hits in an hour? I mean, I appreciate all you people reading the good word of the Langridge, but I'm not that good a writer. So, they get banned, which is nice and easy. Following Mark Pilgrim's explanation, I added the following lines to .htaccess:
# all your DoS are belong to us. Ban ban ban.
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^213.249.154.101$
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^81.159.133.111$
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
and...no more hits from those IPs. Beware, people sucking down my bandwidth: I have plenty of room in .htaccess for more of those lines.
This website belongs to Stuart Langridge. Contact details are available. Don't eat yellow snow. Valid HTML5, at least in theory, except for the bits that aren't because I'm that futuristic that I'm ahead of the spec, oh yes. HTML5 help from Bruce Lawson, among others. Fonts from the superb FontSquirrel. End.