teaparty.network central
If this is anything, it's the (minimalist) home page of Tom Yates. This
website lives on its own co-located
server, seen here in our lounge shortly before deployment, in the
company of suitable friends.
A picture of me working on an earlier incarnation of the server in an earlier
colo can be found
here.
This page is primarily intended to allow me to export certain pieces of
information to the outside world.
- GPG keys:
- My current OpenPGP public key, signed by the
key below.
- My older key. Used from 2003-08-18 to
2008-07-02, this key is the one whose
fingerprint appears on my business and personal card. If you have taken my
public key from a keyserver you will need this key to verify my current public key.
- My very old key, used until 2003-08-18.
- Another of these pieces of information is our digital photo
album, which is now organised with the excellent, free
(primarily as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") Gallery package. Older photos
can still be seen here.
- In 2004 I started to log my technical explorations, and I have continued to
do so whenever I'm breaking technical ground that's new to me. This is partly
for my own benefit, and partly in case anyone else finds them useful.
Absent any better name, I shall call them Tom's
Tech Notes.
- Gerry: here's the
webmail system, ok?
- And having just read this story on the BBC's
website, I want to make it clear that I have no sympathy whatsoever for the positions
and views of the Tea Party
movement in the US. My teaparty affiliations are all from the Mad
Hatter's tea party, instead.
Obligatory picture
One of these is a cuddly master of free software and operating systems.
The other is me.
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General contact information
Email: madhatter-at-teaparty-dot-net (apologies for the
address-scraper-blocking, but I'm getting about ten thousand spams a month
and don't want to make life any easier for spammers).
teaparty.net is my own domain. Email to it may sometimes bounce,
if I'm between servers,
but sooner or later it'll always be back on the 'net.
Work-related email should be sent to tyates-at-gatekeeper-dot-ltd-dot-uk
(again, apologies for the address-scraper blocking). If you're curious
about the work of Gatekeeper
Technology, specialists in open-source networking and security
systems, drop me a line. We don't do Micro$oft systems; please don't
waste our time by asking us to.
I live in Cambridge, UK. I used to have my address up here, but have
removed it; email me if you need to know it. Alternatively, ask the
Wayback Machine (to which I have deliberately provided no link).
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Books
There is truth in the rumour that I wrote one, along with a friend
from MIT; it's now out of print. We were working on a second edition,
to cover 2.4.x kernels, iptables and OpenBSD 3.0, but Wiley decided they
didn't want it after we wrote two-thirds of it. Perhaps we'll write
another one later!
I have also more recently started reviewing books professionally.
My reviews can also be read here.
General interests
I do have a life. Herewith a partial list of my
personal interests, which will acquire content in
proportion to my spare time.
- My wife.
- Local politics: I'm a member and active supporter of the Liberal Democrats, the UK's third
largest (but most progressive) party.
- My church.
- Playing the trombone, most regularly with Diss-Located Bones and
CSD Brass.
- Science Fiction.
- Riding motorcycles,
and motorcycle touring in particular. You can see our new bikes
here.
- Single malt scotch whiskies, most often via the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.
- Amnesty International and
the Urgent Action network:
"When the first 200 letters came, the guards gave me back my
clothes. The next 200 letters came and the prison officers came to see me.
When the next pile of letters arrived, the director got in touch with his
superior. The letters kept coming, 3,000 of them, and the President called
me to his office. He showed me an enormous box of letters he had received,
and said: How is it that a trade union leader like you has so many friends
all over the world?"
-- A released prisoner from the Dominican Republic
- Curries - cooking and eating.
Anything else?
I used to maintain the
toasters'
administrators' mailing list. Toasters are large file servers from
Network Appliance, but if you needed to be told that, you probably won't
find the archive very interesting. Don't let me stop you, though.
I'm also the secretary of the Essex Youth Orchestra Association - an
organisation for ex-members of any of the Youth Orchestras in Essex, UK,
and other persons who think they might want to join. If you want to know
more about that, go to the
Association's website.
Other sites are hosted on teaparty. For the benefit of search
engines and the curious, they are:
You can see server statistics for most of these here.
A number of mailing lists are hosted on
teaparty.net, using GNU Mailman. The list of lists can be found
here.
I also run redirection services for a few friends who
have content hosted elsewhere. These are:
My geek code? It's
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PE-- Y+>++ PGP++ R+ tv-- b+++ !DI e++(++++) h r+++ y?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
Here's a decoded version.
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