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Thursday, July 7, 2005
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E mail from the University
There was an e-mail from the OIT Dept (office of information technology) at the university in my in-box this
morning. Something to the general effect of "Dear sir, Our findings
determine you have communicated with your university provided file
space using email and FTP during the previous six months. As of 01 Aug
05 this will no longer be allowed, we require Secure File Transfer
Protocol for access, and cleartext communication will be blocked." They've
never allowed CGI on student or worker staff accounts, the WaM server, only on faculty
and department accounts. So no movable type etc.
Now this is unfortunate because Radio Userland only comes (and
will only ever come) with a generic FTP engine. Searching through the R
U boards makes it clear they - the few people left caretaking Radio
Userland - are aware of ISPs converting to SFTP and are meeting
this with a massive yawning shrug. They suggest turning off
upstreaming and getting hold of a SFTP engine like Fugu (which
UMD OIT have contracted with and will provide) and writing an
Applescript to have it take over what the upstream was doing. Yeah I'll
get right on that. Except my iBook won't run Fugu which only runs on OS
X.2.5 and above. Oh and I know absolutely nothing about Applescript at
the moment.
I don't like the notion of being forced to spend money to upgrade
my equipment to a work around solution. Money that on a clerks salary I
don't have. Or adapting to another weblog software and starting from
scratch at a complete different URL. It is far more likely that
Atomized Junior will cease publication at the end of this month.
11:54:11 PM ;;
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- Prolegemma to any future FAQ.
- Who are you again?
- paul bushmiller
- what is it exactly that you do?
- at the least, this.
- What is this?
- it's a weblog.
- How long have you been doing it?
- 3 or 4 years. I used to run it by hand; Radio Userland is more convenient.
- Ever been overseas?
- yes
- Know any foreign languages?
- no
- Favorite song?
- victoria - the kinks
- RockandRoll? Favorite American song then
- Omaha - Moby Grape
- Favorite Movie
Billy in the Lowlands
- favorite book?
- any book I can read in a clean well lighted place
- Is this one of those websites with lots of contentious, dogmatic and brittle opinions?
- no
- What do you expect to accomplish with this?
- something
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