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I thought I'd sorted this once but apparently not :(

I'd managed to get things sorted so that I could input pound signs and they would appear fine to me and everyone else but if someone else typed a pound sign I got a question mark.

I *think* what was happening was that it was taking UTF-8 input and converting it to latin1... not entirely sure.

Anyway for those suffering the same issues take a look at The ultimate guide for UTF-8 in irssi and GNU/Screen

So it would appear that Debian "fixed" a problem in OpenSSL a few years ago. Unfortunately this "fix" has meant that they have had to release this security announcement.

Now this vulnerability is quite bad, so much so that Debian have stated the following:

It is strongly recommended that all cryptographic key material which has been generated by OpenSSL versions starting with 0.9.8c-1 on Debian systems is recreated from scratch. Furthermore, all DSA keys ever used on affected Debian systems for signing or authentication purposes should be considered compromised; the Digital Signature Algorithm relies on a secret random value used during signature generation.

Ben Laurie has posted a great blog entry as to why this so stupid. This quote from that entry sums the problem up nicely:

Secondly, if you are going to fix bugs, then you should install this maxim of mine firmly in your head: never fix a bug you don’t understand.

I'm a firm believer that temporary solutions become permanent very quickly however this quote from mySQL DBA is by far the best way of putting it.

Remember kids

There is nothing more Permanent then a temporary solution

So I was pointed in the direction of Railscasts.com and duly leeched the site:


curl "http://feeds.feedburner.com/railscasts_ipod" \
| grep -Eo "http://media.railscasts.com/ipod_videos/.*m4v" \
| sort | xargs -n1 wget -c


did the trick.

Now I need to find time to watch them all :)

Upgraded to Drupal 6.1

No major problems other than I forgot to set my site back to the default theme before updating.