Notes and Jottings

Well, well, [Google Maps](http://maps.google.com/) now has a [UK/Ireland version](http://maps.google.co.uk/). All the usual Google maps loveliness - with obvious exceptions for Ireland. No mapping outside the major towns and road arteries. Bennettsbridge? Does it exist? Thomastown has a mark, but it’s certainly not the town I once knew, either. I know that Google has to work with the mapping information that’s available for Ireland, and that is sometimes sparse on the ground. [Ordnance Survey Ireland](http://www.osi.ie/) should do better… they certainly have the mapping DATA. *Disclaimer:* I don’t really know that much about the commercial aspect of how to get good Irish mapping, so a lot of what I said is really just noise.

If we consider its ability to recommend directions, ask it for directions from XXXX to O’Connell Street.

Did you mean:

O’Connell Street, the Scottish Borders, The Scottish Borders, Scottish Borders, TD9

O’Connell Close, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA11

Eh, no. I guess with that “.co.uk” designation, it’s not quite ready for Ireland yet. Still, it is pretty! And I bet it works reasonably well in the UK.

Actually… let me think about this a bit more… considering the hacks that are available to overlay you own route on top of a map through Javascript… this could be useful!

The news that Marla Ruzicka died over the weekend has been spreading, along with recognition of who she was, and of the great work that she had been doing in Iraq. To walk almost completely defenseless through the people of Iraq was a huge act of bravery which puts most others to shame (myself included).

Today, This Is Rumor Control published [an interview with Marla’s father](http://www.thisisrumorcontrol.org/node/2065) which is very much worth reading.

I’ve started using an IPv6 tunnel on my laptop at home - using [SixXS](http://www.sixxs.net/) as a tunnel broker. It works very well actually, just wish there was more to do with IPv6 right now, except play around with it
There are some Debian packages, but when I decided to recompile against Ubuntu, I made some changes:

* Debconf support
* Init script that can detect failed connections, also looks like other Ubuntu init scripts
* Installs man page
* Installs Sxx, Kxx rcX.d scripts
* Miscellaneous other changes

The biggest change is obviously debconf support, but it’s something that really makes the package look well integrated with the system. Quite proud of it, really!

Some Screenshots!
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First, debconf asks for your SixXS username and password.


Then if the username and password are correct, it may (depending on the frontend) ask you to select from a list of available tunnels.


If the username and/or password are incorrect, it will ask if you want to recheck your authentication details before continuing.


And that’s it! It reads and writes the configuration to /etc/aiccu.conf, and it all seems to work well.

Update: some working apt sources:

deb [http://www.lyranthe.org/ubuntu/](http://www.lyranthe.org/ubuntu/) hoary universe

deb-src [http://www.lyranthe.org/ubuntu/](http://www.lyranthe.org/ubuntu/) hoary universe