Archive for 2006

No guaranteed minimum service

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

It occurs to me that I ought to say this really explicitly: there is no guaranteed minimum service on puzzling.org. None of you are paying me to do this, it’s not a business, and therefore I do not guarentee uptime, performance of the server, or responsiveness on my behalf. I mean, I try to provide [...]

New fuchsia.puzzling.org ssl certificate

Monday, September 11th, 2006

The old SSL certificate for fuchsia.puzzling.org expired and a new one has been issued with these fingerprints:

SHA1: 98:F3:81:0D:38:8F:1F:2C:9F:C6:9B:A9:D7:1C:83:FA:C3:C7:17:E3
MD5: 87:73:99:26:9C:FC:05:0B:C2:3E:B8:F8:1F:3C:0F:A9

This certificate will be presented on SMTP (mail sending) and IMAP and POP (mail receiving) connections. The certificate presented for web connections (the users.puzzling.org certificate) remains the same, as does the signing authority. Both were described in [...]

Upgrade to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS complete

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

As of June 15 2006. Please email the admins with any system problems

System upgrade: 14th June

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Upgrade from Ubuntu 5.10 to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will occur on Wednesday 14th June 2006 from 10:30pm Sydney time onwards.

Acceptable use

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Please note that I want people to self police on this: I won’t be seeking evidence that you’re not following the below, I want to trust people. If any part of the below is not acceptable to you, please talk to me first (perhaps it was misworded or there’s an implication I didn’t consider) and [...]

Hosting images on puzzling.org

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Policy applies to: people hosting websites on puzzling.org
Hosting images is now a potentially enormous bandwidth liability. This is thanks to images.google.com, which makes it easy to find third party images, and the <img> HTML tag, which makes it easy to include other people’s images in your own pages. If you have an image at http://example.puzzling.org/hugeimage.jpg, [...]

SSL certificates

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

I set up my own certificate authority a while back for signing SSL keys associated with puzzling.org. I’ve finally gotten around to doing this properly, and so I am using the following keys for secure services:

one for users.puzzling.org, which will be presented when you connect to the website securely (usually for webmail). This one expires [...]

WordPress update

Friday, January 13th, 2006

It’s time for another laborious round of upgrading everyone’s WordPress installation.
Here’s a todo list, will cross things off as I do them:

Database for logoscopy
users
buglinks
mafioso
perpetuity
totalwhatever
abstraktn
daize
allovertheworld
gardiner.id.au
frideswide