Andy Millar

If you get the error:

Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer

When trying to add a computer to a domain or trying to map a network drive, then chances are someone has been stupid.

Check rsop to make sure that the following policy hasn’t been changed to anything silly:

Administrative Tools
> Local Security Settings
>> Local Policies
>>> User Rights Assignment
>>>> Access this computer from the network

This should probably be the list that is suggested in the explanation for this policy and at least include Authenticated Users.

I was linked to an entertaining recipe on The Bacon Explosion today and couldn’t resist trying it. I figured I should take photographic evidence of the process as proof, so here it is…

The ingredients:

You need an insane amount of:

• Streaky Bacon
• Sausage Meat
• BBQ Sauce
• BBQ Rub/Powder

Firstly you make a lattice of bacon, you’re supposed to make it as tight as you can.

You should end up with something looking rather close to:

Now sprinkle the lattice with BBQ Rub/Powder:

Then squash your sausage meat ontop:

Now liberally apply chopped cooked bacon:

Cover with copious amounts of BBQ Sauce:

And roll up into a sausage, leaving the lattice behind:

Pinch the ends a little to keep all the goodness in:

Now roll the lattice around the sausage meat, and place the seam at the bottom. Cover liberally in BBQ Rub/Powder:

Now place in a pre-heated oven at 180c for around 75 minutes, I used a glass dish to keep the fat and juices in:

Around half way through the cooking it looked like:

And now it’s done, look at all that bacon juice:

Take out of the cooking container and place on a chopping board to cut:

And now display pure bacon perfection:

The recipe is shamelessly stolen from BBQ Addicts…

Orange’s 3G internet dongle is a HUAWEI E1752.

By default, this doesn’t appear to be detected by NetworkManager with Fedora 13.

This is because it requires usb_modeswitch to work. Installing the usb_modeswitch package fixed it and the dongle was picked up by NetworkManager.

Bitcoin (http://www.bitcoin.org/) is an anonymous peer-to-peer currency with no central controlling authority…

Seems ideal for money laundering and supplying the likes of Al-Qaeda with funds.

I suppose things have been a little quiet recently; but I can blame that entirely on having to commute 2 hours a day to London for work… Yes, I’ve (temporarily) moved to Cambridge.

In other news, I went for a short run yesterday morning, only about 2 miles, but here’s the route:

Someone keeps stealing my ducks!

And then they did it again!