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Some pictures from our family outing to the Corniche today… Qatar Marine Sports federation time trials for the oryx cup. The big race is tomorrow, today was just such a beautiful day, we had to get out! Click on the pictures to see larger copies

Daniel was showing us how fast he can be

Thomas was not about to be outdone.

Parenting Doha Style.

Everyone takes turns

Flying Boats!

They were more interested in the crabs and snails than the rocket boats…

We went to the England vs Brazil game on the 14 of November. Jen and I went with Belle, Curt and we met chris down there for dinner… then we went to the game and sat with a whole wack of guys.

Here’s pics.

Brazil Kickin the ball(they won 1-0)

England stoping the ball…(They lost)

Jen gave Richard  a Britain flag on his head… didn’t turn out too well though.

Now we really are trying to change the world!

Qatar centre spreads moderate Islam, dialogue | Lifestyle | Reuters.

Found this cool trick for dumping config files…

grep -v "^#" /etc/squid/squid.conf | sed -e ‘/^$/d’

the Grep will remove the comments and Sed will kill the blanks. All you are left with is config goodness.

Found this resource today… talk about a homework helper.

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You are never going to guess what happened. Well, I hope not anyways. I have been playing with a new media centre, LinuxMCE. It is fairly good. Lots of good options. I like the netboot option. I like the organization of the media, good search, all around a pretty good alternative to what else is out there. Anyways.

LinuxMCE inserts itself inbetween your internet connection and the rest of your computers. Kinda like a dlink router from walmart. having it there, gives you a fair number of interesting things you can do, one of which is Caching and filtering.

There is a program in the opensource world called SQUID. it si a web caching and filtering piece of software. I have it all set up to allow my network to store data so it doesn’t have to keep downloading the same pics off the net. Think of how many ties Facebook sends that same Facebook logo out to the world? I have a copy of it on my server now, and then my computer will hand it over to the browser when the browser asks for it… America is a long way to go for a pretty little picture.

Anyways. Everything looks good, I test the squid installation on the server – no problem. I test it fro my network – no go… k. probably firewall issue. Correct. ok, fix that. move on… test, it works.

I can see teh images stored on my server, looks good.

I test a reboot.

Fail.

firewall rules are being overwritten…

Not quite sure from where… But if I can’t get those rules to stick, this squid won’t be usable at all…

Turns out  the LinuxMCE has its own firewall rule implementation that doesn’t conform to EVERY OTHER IPTABLES IMPLEMENTATION. they go and do their own thing… Bums.

Opensource is a great concept, but standards exist so stuff like this doesn’t happen. I understand that this will happen in the closed source worlds also, but at least it is hidden from me. Not in your face like tonight.

On the positive, opensource has amazing documentation for times like this when guys don’t follow standard conventions.