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Thursday, July 7, 2005
 
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.
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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
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something

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