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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charSet="utf-8"/><meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"/><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"/><style data-href="/2007/styles.742409eb857ab2ccca34.css" data-identity="gatsby-global-css">li{margin-right:1rem}h1,li{display:inline-block}h1{font-style:normal;margin-top:0}header{margin-bottom:1.5rem}header ul{float:right;list-style:none}#wrapper{margin:3em auto;max-width:700px;padding:10px}.blogPostDate{color:#333;font-size:8pt;margin-bottom:9px;padding-top:4px}</style><meta name="generator" content="Gatsby 4.4.0"/><title data-react-helmet="true">Docunext</title><link as="script" rel="preload" href="/2007/webpack-runtime-2114abd2f28683b2ec70.js"/><link as="script" rel="preload" href="/2007/framework-3b46cba0dfed09aeeb64.js"/><link as="script" rel="preload" href="/2007/app-e166feeae9e3b9834f94.js"/><link as="script" rel="preload" href="/2007/commons-07a951b24cae11aa6a48.js"/><link as="script" rel="preload" href="/2007/component---src-pages-index-js-a8b57182e60688a12d91.js"/><link as="fetch" rel="preload" href="/2007/page-data/index/page-data.json" crossorigin="anonymous"/><link as="fetch" rel="preload" href="/2007/page-data/sq/d/4224293195.json" crossorigin="anonymous"/><link as="fetch" rel="preload" href="/2007/page-data/app-data.json" crossorigin="anonymous"/></head><body><div id="___gatsby"><div style="outline:none" tabindex="-1" id="gatsby-focus-wrapper"><div id="wrapper"><header><ul><li><a href="/about/">About</a></li></ul><a href="/"><h1>Docunext</h1></a></header><hr/><div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/more-python-wsgi-notes/"><h3>More Python WSGI moinmoin and pycoon Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 December, 2007</span></h3><p>WSGI is pretty cool stuff - I messed around with cherrypy today, and enjoyed what I found. For a fairly small codebase its quite flexible…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/bulletproof-ajax/"><h3>Bulletproof AJAX and Object Persistence<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 December, 2007</span></h3><p>As a follow up to my last post about javascript libraries, I'm now reading "Bulletproof AJAX" by Jeremy Keith. I'm pleased with what I've…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/javascript-libraries/"><h3>Javascript Libraries<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I started this post several months ago and finally got around to examining some of these libraries. So far, I really like the jQuery library…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/ohloh/"><h3>Ohloh<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I submitted some projects to ohloh.net recently, then came up with thoughts to share. raises awareness about the importance of code…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/python-wsgi/"><h3>Python WSGI<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I followed the
WSGI Hello World Tutorial
, and modified it to learn a little bit about how WSGI URIs are handled. I am familiar with how…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/the-licensing-issues-of-canvas-concepts/"><h3>The Licensing Issues of Canvas Concepts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 December, 2007</span></h3><p>Canvas is a cool concept, but the fact that Apple is taking the position that it believes itself to own intellectual property related to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/web-server-thoughts/"><h3>Web Server Thoughts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I like the idea of running numerous lightweight daemons behind a larger, multi-threaded server. Other issues: What's the best way to connect…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/think-nothing/"><h3>Think Nothing<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 December, 2007</span></h3><p>Bye bye Think Secret! Apple has put an end to the Think Secret website we've known and loved for so long...Here's the press release posted…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/load-balanced-wordpress/"><h3>Load Balanced Wordpress<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I've recently setup Wordpress high availability cluster using a pfSense load balancer. It works great, most of the time. There are…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/learning-python/"><h3>Learning Python<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I've decided to make a concerted effort to learn python, so I just purchased O'Reilly's "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz. I might even…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/cacheability-engine-license/"><h3>Cacheability Engine License<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I just wrote to Mark Nottingham, the author of the Cacheability Engine, to ask if he would reconsider licensing the software under the GPL…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/encryption-campaign/"><h3>Encryption Campaign<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 December, 2007</span></h3><p>Zeth at command line warriors has launched a campaign for laptop users to encrypt their home directories. I don't encrypt my laptop, but I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/subversion-dav-mod-rewrite/"><h3>Subversion DAV mod rewrite<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to slyly host several svn repositories: www.example.com/svn/ www.example.org/svn/ using mod_rewrite and SVNParentPath (set to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/dreamhost-account-closed/"><h3>Dreamhost Account Closed<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I did finally close my dreamhost account, it was to renew in January 2008. Contrary to how Netfirms is behaving, Dreamhost was amicable…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/mac-tablet/"><h3>Mac Tablet<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 December, 2007</span></h3><p>My co-worker Rae keeps talking about the Mac tablet rumors - she thinks it would be really cool if there ever is such a thing. I tend to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/netfirms-renewal/"><h3>NetFirms Renewal But I already canceled<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I just got an email from NetFirms letting me know my account was up for renewal. I responded saying that I canceled my Netfirms account back…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/openvz-limits/"><h3>OpenVZ Limits<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I am still having a bit of trouble figuring out the right limits for virtual environments in OpenVZ. I just ran into some limits, but I'm…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/debian-proftpd/"><h3>Debian Proftpd<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm setting up proftpd on debian, using openbsd-inetd. One glitch so far: I commented that out, and now getting this: In the end I ended up…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/mod-wsgi/"><h3>mod wsgi<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 December, 2007</span></h3><p>Found this new python / Apache module thanks to clw, its similar, but potentially faster, than mod_fcgid. Its terrific to have choices…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/roundcube-on-debian/"><h3>Roundcube on Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 December, 2007</span></h3><p>Exciting news! Roundcube web-based email is now available in the debian repositories. I first used roundcube thanks to the fine folks at…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/pfsense-traffic-shaping-issue/"><h3>pfSense Traffic Shaping Issue<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I just ran into an issue with the traffic shaper on pfSense. I was downloading a large file from a server behind the firewall over the vpn…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/psyco-trac/"><h3>Psyco Trac<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to setup trac with psyco, and so far it seems to work but I have no clue if it actually is working. I just added this to the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/comment-spam-defenses/"><h3>Comment Spam Defenses<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying new ways to defend against comment spam, thanks to these sites for providing IP block lists, or links to IP block lists: http…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/how-i-use-apache-behind-pfsense/"><h3>How I use Apache behind pfSense<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 December, 2007</span></h3><p>Apache can sometimes cause problems when configured certain ways in certain environments with certain clients. Like FIN_WAIT_2. If you setup…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/more-fun-with-trac/"><h3>More fun with trac<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I just installed the latest and greatest trac software on a new server I'm building. In this case, I wanted to install to a separate…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/pfsense-openntp/"><h3>pfSense OpenNTP<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 December, 2007</span></h3><p>Can this work on more than one interface at a time? My tests indicate it can only run on one interface. If it can indeed only run on one…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/12/safari-versus-camino/"><h3>Safari versus Camino<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 December, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been trying to switch to Safari after several pleasant years using Camino. Why? Only because Safari supports multiple usernames and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/disable-acpi-in-pfsense/"><h3>Disable ACPI in pfSense<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I just installed pfSense on an old PIII server (intel L440GX mainboard), and for whatever reason, it would freeze when booting. By disabling…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/finally-using-mod-proxy-in-production/"><h3>Finally Using mod proxy in production<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 November, 2007</span></h3><p>This morning, I was able to setup mod_proxy as a simple and effective alternative to network address translation (NAT). I eventually want to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/comcast-reverse-dns/"><h3>Comcast Reverse DNS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to get a reverse DNS entry for one of the IP addresses which Comcast has allocated to my business. Is it possible? It actually is…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/mysql-replication-manager/"><h3>MySQL Replication Manager<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been searching for a MySQL Replication Manager, and found a lot of stuff, but nothing yet fits my needs. This one looks good: http…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/wake-on-lan-versus-power-on-after-power-failure/"><h3>Wake on LAN versus Power on after power failure<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I was just thinking - its been a few months since I started using a remote reboot switch instead of wake on lan. Hate to admit it, but its…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/traffic-shaping/"><h3>Traffic Shaping<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Note to self: today you updated the traffic shaping rules on the m0n0wall net4501 to prioritize the in-office public server, and penalize…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/mod-serf/"><h3>mod serf<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 November, 2007</span></h3><p>The Apache mailing lists have been mentioning mod_serf lately as an alternative to mod_proxy. It actually looks really interesting, and its…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/gentoo-updates/"><h3>Gentoo Updates<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I performed some updates on a server I manage which runs Gentoo today. There were a couple of hitches: The first one, neon, doesn't seem to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/mac-or-pc/"><h3>Mac or PC<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I've primarily been a pc user for the majority of my life, but in the past couple years I've dove into the world of Macintosh's a little bit…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/php-apache-and-dbms/"><h3>PHP Apache and DBM s<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Another case of open licensing conflicts: I'm trying to choose a dbm format to use, and I like the way SDBM is fast. Unfortunately, PHP…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/thank-you-linuxcom-and-nixcraft/"><h3>How to Restart After A Kernel Panic<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 November, 2007</span></h3><p>This is awesome. :-) I just read a note at linux.com, referenced from nixcraft.com that you can set a sysctl setting to reboot after a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/labrea-tarpit/"><h3>LaBrea Tarpit<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally got around to testing out labrea last night. It works as described, though I didn't test it out too extensively. I ran it on a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/another-mce/"><h3>Another MCE Machine Check Error<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 November, 2007</span></h3><p>One of my servers threw another MCE this morning (Machine Check Error), and I guess it is being caused by ECC memory. I was able to capture…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/debian-php5/"><h3>Debian PHP5 Cron<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I just noticed that the cron command I commented out on my debian machines to extend the length of my php5 sessions has resulted in a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/dreamhost-cluster-move/"><h3>Dreamhost Cluster Move<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Dreamhost just sent me an email about their plans to move an entire hosting cluster, resulting in downtime for over 8 hours - if all goes…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/g4-reformat-and-install/"><h3>G4 reformat and install<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Well the G4 was passed off to me today. I just had to clear it of all it's old data. I inserted an install CD and held down C as I rebooted…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/disassembling-the-ibook-g3/"><h3>Disassembling the iBook G3<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Well this past weekend I took apart the iBook G3 to see if I could find the faulty connection. I was able to find a better guide for…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/google-premier-domain-apps-review/"><h3>Google Premier Domain Apps Review<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Email Premier Apps by Google Clear pricing... What does change smtp envelope mean? Kind of strange... Local server would be nice on the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/debian-policies/"><h3>Debian Policies<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I admit, I'm not a big fan of reading policy manual's. Are you? Probably not. So I've been procrastinating the undertaking of the debian…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/postponing-the-use-of-mod-rewrite-mysql/"><h3>Postponing the use of mod rewrite MySQL<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Since mod_rewrite and mod_dbd aren't quite ready for production use yet, I'm going to remove my mod_rewrite perl script which looks up…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/upgrading-courier-imapd-ssl/"><h3>Upgrading Courier Imapd ssl<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Just updated courier-imapd-ssl on debian and got this error in the logs and was unable to connect: For some reason, my existing /etc/courier…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/trac-with-mysql/"><h3>Trac with MySQL<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I've decided to give it a try - Trac with MySQL: I already have MySQL installed. I tried doing the trac-admin initenv test-trac/ before…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/via-c7-experiments/"><h3>Via C7 Experiments<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Now that the Via C7 is again available at a reasonable price, I'm planning some more experiments for this cool chip. First thing I want to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/apache-containers/"><h3>Apache Containers<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally took a moment to figure out Apache Containers, aka Configuration Sections. I wanted to know if a Location directive could override…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/creating-debian-packages-part-ii/"><h3>Creating Debian Packages Part II<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 November, 2007</span></h3><p>As a follow-up to my post about the New York Times XSLT cache package, I emailed the debian mentors list asking for some help in packaging…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/trac-webadmin/"><h3>Trac WebAdmin<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally got around to installing the WebAdmin tools for Trac and I'm really pleased I did. I was also able to install the spam filter and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/hosting-questions/"><h3>Hosting Questions<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I just responded to a customer's question about our hosting, and figured to share the response here as it includes a good description (in my…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/mac-g3-update/"><h3>Mac G3 Update<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I took the broken mac to the apple doctor, and I was told that all ibook G3's have the same defect with the video card, after a while it…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/openads/"><h3>OpenAds<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm reviewing OpenAds and so far one thing I can't figure out is whether it is a PHP-based webserver, or if its a set of scripts which are…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/learning-css/"><h3>Learning CSS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 November, 2007</span></h3><p>This is just some CSS formating I was playing with earlier:this is some red text this is some purple text this is center alignedthis is…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/punbb-update/"><h3>punbb Update<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 November, 2007</span></h3><p>This morning I've been working on a punbb plugin to insert the necessary Google Analytics code into the footer of a punbb forum. I got it…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/d201gly2/"><h3>D201GLY2<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 November, 2007</span></h3><p>intel is finally getting the little valley 2 out into the marketplace, and this thing is awesome. Its got SATA and a passively cooled CPU…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/should-i-close-my-dreamhost-account/"><h3>Should I close my Dreamhost account<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Last year I signed up for a Dreamhost account. I used a coupon code so the price wasn't bad, and their offering is very competitive in many…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/libdbi/"><h3>libdbi<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm installing libdbi0 to try out mod_dbi_pool from outoforder.cc: DOH! UPDATE: November 13, 2007: I later found out that there is a newer…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/more-godaddy-woes/"><h3>MORE GoDaddy Woes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 November, 2007</span></h3><p>So I'm trying to turn off privacy registration for my GoDaddy registered domains, but they are sending me to another login screen. When I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/loongson-updates/"><h3>Loongson Updates<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Linux.com had an article about the Loongson Fulong computer recently, describing it as a not so stellar computer. It is going to be more…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/c-cookbook/"><h3>C Cookbook<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm reading the online version of the O'Reilly C++ cookbook and so far its pretty good. I also added the C++ in a Nutshell book as a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/mod-transform/"><h3>mod transform<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 November, 2007</span></h3><p>Yes! mod_transform works great. :-) It is super simple and works as you'd expect. There are a couple of interesting features - XSL caching…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/11/xerces-and-xalan/"><h3>Xerces and Xalan<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 November, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to setup ApacheModuleXslt on debian. Well I got that to work, but not the ApacheModuleXSLT. It looks for apxs instead of apxs2. I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/ibm-recycling-silicon-for-solar-panels/"><h3>IBM Recycling Silicon for Solar Panels<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 October, 2007</span></h3><p>This is awesome news! IBM has figured out a way to recycle silicon from old or unused computer chips and turn them into solar panels, at…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/recaptcha/"><h3>reCaptcha<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 October, 2007</span></h3><p>This is awesome, and soon to be a part of our blog sites! They are using scanned words from old books which OCR (optical character…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/more-python-explorations-tinyerp/"><h3>More Python Explorations TinyERP<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 October, 2007</span></h3><p>In my work with PBooks, I occasionally do some research on other bookkeeping programs. I was encouraged by a forum member to examine tinyerp…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/apache2-xslt/"><h3>Apache2 XSLT<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying out the libapache2-modxslt module which is written in c an provides the ability to parse XML. :-) I just installed it on an…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/resurrected-laptop-with-no-head/"><h3>Resurrected Laptop With No Head Headless<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 October, 2007</span></h3><p>Over two years ago I found a dead laptop that was getting thrown away and I decided to try and resurrect it. After battling with trying to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/attempting-to-use-googles-tcmalloc-part-i/"><h3>Attempting to use Google s Thread Caching Memory Allocator tcmalloc Part I<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm getting more interested in some of the more technical parts of computing, and so I decided to take a shot at compiling and using Google…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/nyt-xslcache/"><h3>NYT xslcache<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 October, 2007</span></h3><p>The New York Times has released a modified xsl module for php5 which caches xsl transformations. I just built it on ubuntu and debian: Cool…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/retrieving-data-from-your-mac/"><h3>Retrieving data from your mac<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 October, 2007</span></h3><p>We had a broken ibook G3 on our hands. It had a strange "snow" on the screen, vertical lines in odd patterns across the screen. To retrieve…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/ubuntu-gutsy/"><h3>Ubuntu Gutsy Rocks<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I just installed Gutsy - its so nice! I installed it on an AMD system, and now I'm trying again on intel, but I'm using a 2GB CF card and it…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/leopard/"><h3>Leopard<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 October, 2007</span></h3><p>Apple is as usual hyping up its new operating system release: "Leopard". Here's why I won't upgrade:</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/server-based-comment-spam-protection/"><h3>Server Based Comment Spam Protection<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been thinking about how to protect Wordpress, Trac, and other "community-style" web applications against comment spam, so I figured I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/perl-hash-performance/"><h3>Perl Hash Performance<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm always curious about computer performance. Can't help it, must be in my blood. So when I heard that perl hashes were fast, I had to do…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/godaddy-woes/"><h3>GoDaddy Woes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 October, 2007</span></h3><p>Godaddy sent me a renewal email earlier today, so I went to their website and tried to renew. Locked out, again. Seems like every time I try…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/pear-channel-server/"><h3>PEAR Channel Server<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm finally going to setup a PEAR Server! Wow, this is actually really cool! The software used to run the PEAR server is a little buggy, but…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/contributing-packages-to-debian/"><h3>Contributing Packages to Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 October, 2007</span></h3><p>As a follow-up to the last docunext post on PHP5-Readline and a debian package for it, here are a few notes I've taken on what I believe it…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/no-php5-readline-in-debian/"><h3>No PHP5 Readline in Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm working on a command line PHP script and I've come to realize that there is no readline capability compiled into the php5-cli package…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/mac-raids/"><h3>Mac RAIDs<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 October, 2007</span></h3><p></p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/command-line-and-trac/"><h3>Command line subversion and Trac<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I logged into the command line using ssh: Edited a document: SVN (subversion) diff showed where the change was made: Committed the change to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/remove-splash-from-ubuntu/"><h3>Remove Splash from Ubuntu<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 October, 2007</span></h3><p>Call me old fashioned, but I like the technobabble that covers the initial boot screens of many linux distributions, excluding ubuntu…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/more-distcc-and-ccache-notes/"><h3>Debian kernel distcc and ccache notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 October, 2007</span></h3><p>Compiling a kernel takes awhile, so I use distcc and ccache on debian. Or: Even menuconfig works: Thanks: 1 2 ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/nfs-stuff/"><h3>NFS Stuff<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm liking NFS more and more. My notes for today: NFS Server Easy to setup on debian, apt-get install nfs-kernel-server. It will include the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/pacman-tbzs-for-ttylinux/"><h3>Pacman .tbz s for ttylinux<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I created a few pacman packages for use with ttylinux: libdbus-1-3.tbz dnsmasq-2.35.tbz ipkg-0.99.163.tbz With the ipkg tool, you can…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/debian-kernel-patches/"><h3>Debian Kernel Patches<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 October, 2007</span></h3><p>Debian is my favorite distribution, but I still need to make some changes to the kernel. I add these patches: * ocf-linux* acpi-dsdt patch…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/tickless-kernel/"><h3>Tickless Kernel<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 October, 2007</span></h3><p>C1: type[C1] promotion[C2] demotion[--] latency[000] usage[00006830]*C2: type[C2] promotion[C3] demotion[C1] latency[080] usage[00015316] C…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/install-sycamore-wiki-on-debian/"><h3>Install Sycamore Wiki on Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 October, 2007</span></h3><p>After that, I followed the instructions here, Installing Sycamore, but I ran into some serious issues. It seems like python programs have…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/dectop-webcam/"><h3>dectop webcam<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 October, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm now going to use my dectop computer as a webcam. It's pretty easy, just installed debian, then downloaded the gspca driver, downloaded…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/trac-error-python-neon-error/"><h3>Trac Error Python Neon Error<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 October, 2007</span></h3><p>Just after I got so excited about Trac I ran into this python error: I upgraded to libneon26-dev, will that fix it? Odd, I'm still getting…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/10/the-iphone-is-a-disaster/"><h3>The iPhone is a Disaster<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 October, 2007</span></h3><p>The iPhone is a complete disaster, in my opinion. From the phone being hyped up, to it being too slippery to hold, to the keypad not working…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/milestone-versus-version/"><h3>Trac Milestone versus Version<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to organize my trac information better. The trac data model has the following elements: I was wrestling with what milestone and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/python-notes/"><h3>Python Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Did some research on Python this morning. I like it and I don't like it. It seems obscure to me - why all the wacky names? And why the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/apache-22-mpm-worker-mod-fcgid-and-php5-cgi/"><h3>Apache 2.2 FastCGI PHP5<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I've finally found my favorite web server setup. Like the title suggests, its Apache 2.2 MPM worker, mod_fcgid, and php5-cgi. Why? I've been…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/speedit/"><h3>Speedit<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 September, 2007</span></h3><p>My Macbook gets hot. This is old news. The bigger deal in Apple-land was the whining or mooing that Macbook Pro (MBP) users experienced…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/no-go-usb-serial-db9/"><h3>No go usb serial db9<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Grr, I spent a bunch of time trying to compile the Moschip7703 driver and eventually did, but the darn usb to serial device I have simply…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/geode-aes-ocf-cryptodev-openssl/"><h3>Geode AES OCF Cryptodev OpenSSL<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Just finished up some more tests of the Geode security block using OCF-linux, cryptodev, and OpenSSL. The results are awesome. Check 'em out…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/lesswattsorg/"><h3>LessWatts.org<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 September, 2007</span></h3><p>YES! Another website dedicated to reducing power on linux machines: LessWatts.org"LessWatts.org is not about marketing, trying to sell you…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/stanfords-webauth/"><h3>Stanford s WebAuth<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Last nice I came across Stanford's WebAuth site again, and this time took a second look at it. Couple of things I noticed: Questions to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/nanoservphp-vs-phpsocketdaemon/"><h3>Nanoserv.php vs phpsocketdaemon<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 September, 2007</span></h3><p>There are two new libraries available for creating socket daemons in php. Both are created by experienced developers, and perform…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/php-fastcgi-buffer-annoyances/"><h3>PHP FastCGI fcgid gzip deflate Buffer Annoyances<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to produce a continuous client - server connection with PHP and FastCGI or FCGI. Its not working. I found a few items related to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/shared-memory-goodness/"><h3>Shared Memory Goodness<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Shared memory is good stuff! You can access it via memcached, xcache, even the file system. I noticed the PHP function "shmop", and then…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/ubuntu-via-padlock/"><h3>Ubuntu VIA Padlock<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm testing out the VIA padlock with Ubuntu and openssl-0.9.8e. First off, I added gutsy to my sources list, then I installed the libssl-0.…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/hyperengine-av/"><h3>HyperEngine AV<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 September, 2007</span></h3><p>HyperEngine-AV is a free and open source video editor. The binary they have on sourceforge is for ppc, so I downloaded the sources and tried…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/phing-23/"><h3>Phing 2.3<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Phing 2.3 just had a new release candidate published and I'm really pleased with some of the new features. PDOSQLExecTask In particular…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/ffmpeg-os-x/"><h3>ffmpeg os x<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 September, 2007</span></h3><p>ffmpegx is shareware which is annoying since its free software underneath. Alternatively, you can build the command line version, which is…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/alix-2b3-and-pfsense/"><h3>ALIX 2B3 and pfSense<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Nice... the new ALIX boards I ordered from PC Engines arrived today! I just fired it up with a pfSense 1.2-RC2 but that didn't work so I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/pfsense-12/"><h3>pfSense 1.2<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 September, 2007</span></h3><p>pfSense 1.2 is chock full of cool features. Some that just caught my eye: The ability to backup / restore certain sections of the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/javascript-head-keepalive/"><h3>Javascript HEAD keepalive<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Can I use javascript to keep alive a connection to a webserver? Probably, but why? For a couple of reasons, you save the existing process at…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/mysql-sockets-versus-network/"><h3>MySQL Sockets versus Network<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I've always used MySQL network connections instead of sockets as of late, but then I read that sockets are faster for local connections…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/apache-news/"><h3>Apache News<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 September, 2007</span></h3><p>The most popular web hosting software is Apache, and with good reason too. It is free and a great software package. While most people are…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/fun-with-sql-relay/"><h3>Fun with SQL Relay<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 September, 2007</span></h3><p>SQL Relay is a connection pooling, load balancing, fail over system for databases. Cool, huh? I'm trying it out on a debian machine, because…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/leading-and-kerning/"><h3>Fonts leading and kerning<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Today I had to edit a button for a web site. the client wanted a fairly long title for the button, so in order to maintain consistency with…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/apache-mod-cache-and-mod-rewrite/"><h3>Apache mod cache and mod rewrite<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm having a tough time working with mod_rewrite and mod_cache, I think because my wordpress setup is messing it up. First off, in my…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/apache-22-dbd-module/"><h3>Apache 2.2 DBD Module<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 September, 2007</span></h3><p>The new Apache 2.2 DBD module, at least the one that's included in Debian's package repository, isn't ready for prime time yet, but its…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/2006-2007-cryptography-news/"><h3>2006 2007 Cryptography News<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 September, 2007</span></h3><p>In the past few years, there's been some exciting news in the world of cryptography. As mentioned in our post about the VIA padlock, the use…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/via-padlock/"><h3>VIA Padlock<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to access the VIA padlock cryptography engine in debian linux. I just tried the 2.6.22 kernel for 686 and there was no padlock…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/apache-wont-restart/"><h3>Apache Won t Restart<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Just ran into a problem I've seen before. When restarting Apache, it will just hang there waiting to restart, but never will, and sometimes…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/load-balanced-squid-proxy-cache/"><h3>Load Balanced Squid Proxy Cache<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Squid isn't just a proxy server, its also a cache server. That means that while squid can do handle http or ftp requests for clients…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/pear-http-dav-server/"><h3>PEAR HTTP DAV Server<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Last year a really awesome package was contributed to PEAR: the HTTP_WebDAV_Server. This is a pure-PHP implementation of a DAV server…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/question-does-a-rewriterule-that-follows-another-rewriterule-inherit-its-conditions/"><h3>Question Does a RewriteRule that follows another RewriteRule inherit its conditions<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Example: Is this the same as: I think this could be done using the [C] chain option, but to do that I'll have to alter my SQL queries a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/punbb-patches/"><h3>Punbb Patches<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I've forked punbb to support multiple sites within one codebase, as well as use two different mysql data sources - one primary and one…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/hero-logic-amd-geode-machine/"><h3>Hero Logic AMD Geode Machine<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Finally there is another provider of AMD Geode machines for low-power networking equipment besides PC Engines and Soekris. PC Engines and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/pfsense-local-load-balancer/"><h3>pfSense local load balancer<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I just setup a load balancer for my lan using pfSense. Its kind of a strange setup, because the LAN and WAN ports are on the same network…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/wake-on-lan-questions/"><h3>Wake on LAN Questions<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I've just setup a nice intel-based mini-server, and I'm wondering how the various functions of wake-on lan work. From the manpage: wol…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/xubuntu-troubles/"><h3>Xubuntu troubles<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I removed xserver-xorg from my xubuntu machine, but now I have no console. :-( I checked out inittab, and its fine, as well as tried…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/apache-reverse-proxy/"><h3>Apache Reverse Proxy<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally setup my first reverse proxy with Apache 2.2 and mod_rewrite. Some might say that Apache is bloated, but I'm really pleased with…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/mydns-error-mysql-has-gone-away/"><h3>MyDNS Error MySQL has gone away<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Problem: MySQL has too many connections. Solution: Lower the timeout on the mysql server. Issue: MyDNS gets booted. Solution: Add reconnect…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/trac-mysql/"><h3>Trac MySQL<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm planning to change from using SQLite to MySQL on my Trac installations. I'll have to learn more about python, but this page I found is a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/drbd-and-ocfs2/"><h3>DRBD and OCFS2<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm testing out DRBD and OCFS2. When both machines are running and drbd is primary on both machines, everything works fine. However, when I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/global-file-system-gfs/"><h3>Global File System GFS on Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 September, 2007</span></h3><p>[ UPDATE: In the future, I will instead go with OCFS2, it worked well and was much easier to setup and get operational. ] Build drbd module…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/kudos-to-cisco/"><h3>Kudos to CISCO<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Its nice when stuff works well, don't you think? That's why I have to give props to CISCO. I recently was able to setup a VLAN on a 296…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/mod-rewrite-and-rewritemap/"><h3>Mod Rewrite and RewriteMap<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 September, 2007</span></h3><p>The new RewriteMap feature of mod_rewrite by Ralf is pretty awesome. To learn more about it, I rewrote the perl example provided on the site…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/solar-panels-for-computers/"><h3>Solar Panels for Computers<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 September, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been working on setting up a solar powered computer. My setup consists of the following: solar panel charge controller battery pack I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/file-system-replication-redundancy-and-failovers/"><h3>File System Replication Redundancy and Failovers<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 September, 2007</span></h3><p>Wide-area file systems / "Global content distributors" What about a custom davfs that caches content, checks for cache expiration, but uses…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/imap-acls/"><h3>IMAP ACLs<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 September, 2007</span></h3><p>OK, I think I've finally found a way to achieve one of my high availability goals. Also found this courier2dovecot script on a blog based…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/m0n0wall-architecture-thoughts/"><h3>M0n0wall Architecture Thoughts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 September, 2007</span></h3><p>NOTICE: These are just quick notes and are very disorganized! I'm planning to clean them up soon, but posted them here to do so. I just read…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/09/mysql-replication-error-alert/"><h3>MySQL Replication Error Alert<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 September, 2007</span></h3><p>One thing I really like about MySQL replication is that when it encounters an error, it "pauses" until someone comes and fixes it. After the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/multi-homing-and-high-availability/"><h3>Multi homing and high availability<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Last night I worked on punbb a little - mainly to add support for hosting multiple sites with a single copy of the software. I was…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/multiple-a-record-priorities/"><h3>Multiple A Record Priorities<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I often wondered whether priorities assigned to multiple a records for the same dns zone has any affect. I didn't think so, and also thought…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/testing-with-assertions/"><h3>Testing with Assertions<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Testing with assertions is valuable because it allows you to make a test more specific and better tailored to your specific needs. An…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/new-microsoft-machine/"><h3>New Microsoft machine<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 August, 2007</span></h3><p>This brings new meaning to the phrase desktop computer ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/wordpress-updates/"><h3>Wordpress Updates<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I've got a couple of Wordpress updates in my mind... a trigger which clears the WP-Cache when someone posts a comment. While not really an…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/intel-dg965ss/"><h3>intel DG965SS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 August, 2007</span></h3><p>My new intel DG965SS board arrived today and I was able to get it running the native graphics driver pretty quickly. Couple of tricks: Video…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/crazy-weekend/"><h3>Crazy Weekend<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 August, 2007</span></h3><p>This weekend was nuts. One of my servers crashed, so when I rebooted it, I decided to upgrade the kernel, finally setup VLANs on the Cisco…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/more-openvz-tips/"><h3>More OpenVZ Tips<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I think this is caused by having two network interfaces on the hardware node. I thought I might be able to use only venet, but I believe I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/colo-reset/"><h3>Colo Reset<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Franklin crashed tonight with a Memory Check Exception error, so I was unable to do a remote reboot and had to travel into Cambridge to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/website-user-authentication/"><h3>Website User Authentication<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I value privacy, and to get it I use encryption. To use encryption on a website, you can use SSL, but to use SSL you need a certificate, and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/perl/"><h3>Perl<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Well I finally added the "Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition" to my Safari shelf, inspired by djabberd. Perl appears to be a great language, with so…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/sqlite-php/"><h3>SQLite PHP<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 August, 2007</span></h3><p>With the help of Zend's developer zone, I made my first SQLite script: So far, I'm pretty excited about using sqlite. I was concerned about…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/ming-stuff/"><h3>Ming Stuff<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been using Ming for years, and recently Manuel Lemos of phpclasses.org sent a message to the list with some questions. Just sent this…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/freebsd-on-intels-little-valley-d201gly/"><h3>FreeBSD on intel s Little Valley D201GLY<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Just a quick note, I've been running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 on the intel little valley for several months and it works…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/m0n0jabber-progress/"><h3>m0n0jabber Progress<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I made some serious progress on m0n0jabber today: More importantly, the djabberd server starts automatically and you can login and chat with…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/modular-phing-buildfiles/"><h3>Modular Phing Buildfiles<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I've got the feeling that given to its own devices, the phing buildfile I've been working on for m0n0wall based builds could grow unwieldy…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/more-thoughts-about-spotlight/"><h3>More Thoughts about Spotlight<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been having a lot of problems with Spotlight and MacFUSE lately, so I've completely disabled Spotlight - I never use it anyway. It…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/mydns-caching/"><h3>MyDNS Caching<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Someone on the MyDNS mailing list recently emailed about the caching in MyDNS. I was interested in tracking down what's happening so I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/more-wake-up-requirements/"><h3>More Wake Up Requirements<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm researching the D945GCCR intel motherboard, and the manual says this: For LAN wake capabilities, the +5 V standby line for the power…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/solar-powered-dectop/"><h3>Solar Powered DecTop<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 August, 2007</span></h3><p>My solar panel charge regulator arrived this week so I plugged it into my solar panel and my battery pack, then plugged my dectop into the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/djabberd-on-freebsd/"><h3>DJabberd on FreeBSD<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to install DJabberd on FreeBSD. I followed: http://osterman.com/wordpress/2007/08/11/djabberd-debian-howto and adjusted for…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/selenium-core/"><h3>Selenium Core<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I keep getting this error in the middle of my tests. I can't find anything wrong with the code, so I'm not sure what the problem is.</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/920/"><h3>pfSense<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Just got this error on the console of a WRAP powered pfsense firewall. I'm trying to set it up to use a wireless interface as the WAN port…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/roundcube/"><h3>Roundcube on Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Trying out Roundcube - great docs, very clear and to the point. Follows this layout: That makes it super easy to install. The conf files are…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/yet-another-wake-on-lan-tool-you-need-in-linux/"><h3>Yet another wake on lan tool you need in linux<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 August, 2007</span></h3><p>acpitool Try:</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/phpunit-selenium-rc/"><h3>PHPUnit Selenium RC<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I really like the looks of PHPUnit working with Selenium RC, but my main complaint about it at this point is that I'm running the proxy…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/web-application-testing-in-ruby/"><h3>Web Application Testing in Ruby<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Also known as WATIR, web application testing in Ruby is pretty cool. I've just recently started reading a book about Ruby and I like what I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/apache-22-caching/"><h3>Apache 2.2 Caching<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 August, 2007</span></h3><p>As of Apache 2.2 - mod_cache is no longer experimental! I'm trying it out. On debian: Added this to my config: then restarted: So far so…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/postfix-unknown-recipients-getting-greylisted/"><h3>Postfix Unknown Recipients Getting Greylisted<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 August, 2007</span></h3><p>My postfix logs were reporting that mail sent to non-existent was getting greylisted. I would expect this mail to get rejected right away…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/trac/"><h3>Trac<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm sold on Trac. As I said in my post about ruby, I was a little nervous about the ability of spammers to clog up a trac install via the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/what-i-like-and-dont-like-about-ruby/"><h3>What I like and don t like about Ruby<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Great command line support - seems to be comfortable and capable on the command line. This one was thing I missed with PHP. Although its…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/fulong/"><h3>Loongson FULONG<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 August, 2007</span></h3><p>This thing looks great: cyrius.com > Pictures of the Lemote Fulong That is a link to Martin Michlmayr's blog, which I have visited many a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/no-more-verizon-dsl-or-chargertek/"><h3>No More Verizon DSL or Chargertek<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally cut the cables on my Verizon DSL, so they shut off my web space. Oh well, at least I remembered to back up the site before they…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/cache-with-php-webservers-and-browsers/"><h3>Cache with PHP Webservers and Browsers<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 August, 2007</span></h3><p>Caching is a great boost for performance, but its tough to balance freshness, expiration, and updates. These are the guidelines I follow to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/launchpad/"><h3>Launchpad<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I recently learned that Canonical's launchpad system is not open source - and in light of Mark Shuttleworth's recent urges that the open…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/vnc-robot/"><h3>VNC Robot<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 August, 2007</span></h3><p>VNC Robot is really cool - I hope that one day soon the developer provides it as open source! Beyond its obvious value for testing, it…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/php5-xcache/"><h3>PHP5 XCache<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I tried out XCache for PHP 5 again last night. I had used it in the past a little, but then put it on the shelf for awhile because it seemed…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/08/squid-cache-for-debian-ubuntu-apt-get-and-bsd-ports-collections/"><h3>Squid Cache for debian ubuntu apt get and BSD ports collections<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 August, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm using squid's caching capabilities to save copies of debian packages and the sources used by the bsd ports collections. Here's what I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/preparing-for-open-source-release-bug-issue-tracker/"><h3>Preparing for Open Source Release Bug Issue Tracker<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 July, 2007</span></h3><p>In preparing for the open source release of PBooks, I'm adding more components to the support infrastructure, including: I'm currently…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/punbb/"><h3>PunBB versus bbPress<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Not sure where I heard about punbb, but I'm glad I did. Its clean, simple, and fast - all good things! The project supports a few of my…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/rails-versus-symfony/"><h3>Rails versus Symfony<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Looks to me like Ruby on Rails is pretty much the same as Symfony, and without worrying about which came first, I have to wonder what makes…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/practical-ruby-for-system-administrators/"><h3>Practical Ruby for System Administrators<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I purchased a copy of "Practical Ruby for System Administrators" by André Ben Hamou today at Barnes & Noble. Its really good! Its my first…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/alix/"><h3>ALIX<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 July, 2007</span></h3><p>My new PC Engines ALIX motherboard / computer arrived from Switzerland yesterday, here are some pictures: This thing is awesome. It is my…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/north-bridge-and-south-bridge/"><h3>Open Source Drivers for Computer Hardware<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 July, 2007</span></h3><p>These two chipsets are important to consider when you are looking to buy a motherboard, especially when you are looking to build a free and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/alix1c/"><h3>ALIX.1C<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 July, 2007</span></h3><p>The new PC Engines mini-itx motherboard arrived from Switzerland today! The thing is COOL! It is passively cooled and only uses about 4-…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/ubuntu-no-debian-yes/"><h3>Ubuntu no Debian yes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I've decided to stick with debian as my primary linux distribution of choice. I was leaning towards ubuntu for awhile there, but the lure of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/freebsd-jails/"><h3>FreeBSD Jails<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 July, 2007</span></h3><p>After some serious fun with OpenVZ, I've been reading about FreeBSD jails. I really need to read the jail manual. And a page about BSD jails…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/trying-openvz/"><h3>Trying OpenVZ<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm installing OpenVZ on a little valley d201gly folllowing http://wiki.openvz.org/Installation_on_Debian#install_the_kernel-image: Edit…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/freebsd2-and-clark-gentoo-progress/"><h3>Freebsd2 megaBSD and clark gentoo progress<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Made some progress on my second freebsd machine: Still need to: Also, on an old gentoo box (clark), I emerge --sync, and had to update its…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/docunext-wiki-requires-login/"><h3>Docunext MediaWiki Requires Login<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 July, 2007</span></h3><p>In a preemptive strike against wiki spammers, our docunext wiki now requires a login. Chances are I'll be the only one editing it anyway…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/freewrt-notes/"><h3>FreeWRT Notes and OpenWRT<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying out FreeWRT again on an Ubuntu system, aka vmserver-1. I made a new directory in /usr/src/ called freewrt as root, then chowned…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/labrea-tarpits/"><h3>LaBrea Tarpits<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 July, 2007</span></h3><p>After reading some of the LaBrea documentation, I'm going to give it a try. From the docs, I believe that I need some extra public IP…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/m0n0deb/"><h3>m0n0deb<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm exploring the idea of "reducing" a debian bootstrap chroot, similarly to how the m0n0wall build scripts copy only the necessary files…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/network-wide-updates/"><h3>Network Wide Updates<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Thanks to the Ubuntu newsletter I read about Phoronix, a cool tech blog, and then found out about Canonical's Landscape, and then about nwu…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/embedded-linux-versus-freebsd/"><h3>Embedded Linux versus FreeBSD<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 July, 2007</span></h3><p>After a weekend of learning about embedded linux, uclibc, and the freewrt and openwrt projects, I'm getting the feeling that there is a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/freewrt/"><h3>FreeWRT<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been reading a little about OpenWRT today when I happened upon the FreeBSD Embedded project page, where they mention the Avila…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/m0n0wall-a-laymans-understanding/"><h3>M0n0wall A layman s understanding<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Where to start. M0n0wall is an embedded firewall operating system that can be installed on a machine. It uses the FreeBSD operating system…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/tech-stuff-pictures/"><h3>Tech Stuff Pictures<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 July, 2007</span></h3><p></p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/first-real-freebsd-machine/"><h3>First Real FreeBSD Machine<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm building a "real" (not a virtual) FreeBSD workstation - my first ever! It will be comprised of the following components: DOH! I'm…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/m0n0wall-load-balancer/"><h3>m0n0wall Load Balancer<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Chris responded to my inquiry at the m0n0wall forums that m0n0wall uses IPF 3.x on 1.2x and IPF 4 on 1.3x. I was wondering because I'd like…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/debian-2622-kernel/"><h3>Debian 2.6.22 Kernel<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Looks like the 2.6.22 kernel is almost in unstable for debian. I'm looking to install this as it supposedly has support for the VIA C7 Eden…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/ejabberd-2/"><h3>eJabberd<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 July, 2007</span></h3><p>The latest version of ejabberd in debian unstable is great! It simply works for me, even though I've had my share of frustrations with…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/no-more-drbd/"><h3>No more DRBD<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I stopped my highly available DRBD server setup today. The way I had it setup wasn't optimal, but it was a worthwhile effort and experiment…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/gnucash-220-on-parallels/"><h3>GnuCash 2.2.0 on Parallels<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Just for the heck of it, I just installed GnuCash 2.2.0 on Windows XP inside of Parallels (I know GnuCash can run in Mac OS X). It worked…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/debian-on-a-via-c7/"><h3>Debian on a Via C7<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 July, 2007</span></h3><p>VIA has this great new chip called the C7 - it has very low power consumption and can use a motherboard chipset that can support up to 2GB…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/m0n0wall-development-notes/"><h3>m0n0wall development notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Here's my notes on the m0n0wall rootfs sources: php.ini is nice and simple! I'm so glad to have read this page about preparing the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/mysql-cluster/"><h3>MySQL Cluster<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm thinking about making a MySQL cluster, either master-master, or using the NDB back-end, which includes high availability features like…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/qemu-vde-speeds-and-vnc-performance/"><h3>QEMU VDE Speeds and VNC performance<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Strangely I'm only getting 39 Mbits per second when I use iperf to test the speed between a QEMU VM and its host. I thought it would be much…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/qemu-virtual-machines-appliances/"><h3>QEMU virtual machines and appliances<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been building a lot of QEMU appliances lately, and I'm planning on making a few available for download. Here's what I've been working:</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/wall-wart-begone/"><h3>Wall Wart Begone<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm really looking forward to the arrival of a multi-port 12V power supply I ordered last week. With it, I'll be able to power multiple mini…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/thoughts-about-high-availability-and-load-balancing/"><h3>High availability and load balancing<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been thinking a lot about hardware setups. Its all about low-latency, high response time, high availability, not throughput! Firewall…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/x11-qemu-vnc-usbdevice-tablet/"><h3>X11 QEMU vnc usbdevice tablet<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I was having wacky mouse action with QEMU and X11, so I did a little research and found the solution. The trick is to use the -usbdevice…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/minideb/"><h3>Minideb with Fluxbox<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm setting up fluxbox on a debian virtual machine: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/fluxbox.htm This is a great setup - so simple and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/video-games-for-linux/"><h3>Video Games for Linux<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm wondering why linux hasn't been able to get more video games going on it. I think it has something to do with OpenGL versus Microsoft's…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/freenas-iscsi/"><h3>FreeNAS iSCSI<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 July, 2007</span></h3><p>In my continuing series of exploring the m0n0wall distros (AskoziaPBX, m0n0wall, pfsense, and FreeNAS), I'm trying to setup iscsi with…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/hp-t5725-thin-client/"><h3>HP t5725 Thin Client<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I just received an HP t5725 Thin Client and it consumes about 25 watts of power for normal operations. I was hoping for much better! It has…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/intel-d201gly-as-a-m0n0wall-router/"><h3>intel d201gly as a m0n0wall router<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Using the intel d201gly as a m0n0wall router should work very well. It needs an extra nic card though. I just sent this to the m0n0wall list…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/network-bridge-causes-wol-to-fail/"><h3>Network Bridge Causes Wake On Lan WOL to Fail<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 July, 2007</span></h3><p>A million and one reasons why wake-on-lan might not work: Your using the interface in a bridge! I've added the following line to my /etc…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/qemu-vde-notes-revisited/"><h3>QEMU vde Notes Revisited<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 July, 2007</span></h3><p>It is happening again... so here are lots of lots of notes on setting up QEMU, VDE, FreeBSD, Debian, tun/tap. QEMU direct to a host bridge…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/ubuntu-terminal-problem-with-nvidia-and-xinerama/"><h3>Ubuntu Terminal Problem with NVidia and Xinerama<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Just added my experience to bug #58232 at Ubuntu's launchpad.net: ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/losetup-working-with-raw-disk-images/"><h3>Losetup Working with Raw Disk Images<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 July, 2007</span></h3><p>When working with virtual machines and embedded devices, you'll probably end up working with a disk image at some point. To work with disk…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/m0n0devphp/"><h3>m0n0dev.php<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm working with m0n0dev.php from Askozia, and I'm running into a problem: The generic-pc image isn't able to find the kernel. The smp image…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/more-compact-flash-annoyances/"><h3>More Compact Flash Annoyances<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to use debian on a compact flash card, but keep running into dma problems. I'm surprised this is such a pain in the neck. This…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/the-net4501-rules-with-m0n0wall/"><h3>The net4501 Rules with m0n0wall<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 July, 2007</span></h3><p>If all you need is a simple bridge for bandwidth management, the net4501 is a good choice. While I had some problems with the net4501 webgui…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/dli-ss20-via-minicom/"><h3>DLI SS20 via minicom<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 July, 2007</span></h3><p>This is a cool device but it takes a little getting used to. Here are my notes: Used a null modem cable with a gender changer null modem…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/koutech-pci-express-giga-lan-pen120/"><h3>Koutech PCI Express Giga LAN PEN120<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Using the sky2 kernel driver with the Koutech PCI-Express Giga LAN PEN120 This card works in linux, but does have some issues. I just found…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/linux-for-beginners/"><h3>Linux for Beginners<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Today I started getting into Linux, which is an OS. Linux is somewhat like windows. It has a GUI that is user fairly user friendly, but…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/serial-console-no-graphics-card-ubuntu/"><h3>Serial Console No Graphics Card Ubuntu<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I wanted to setup a linux server with no graphics card. After installing the os and configuring the network and all that jazz, I set it up…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/debian-bittorrent-command-line-notes/"><h3>Debian BitTorrent Command Line Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Using BitTorrent from the command line on Debian Install only bittorrent for now: aptitude install bittorrent Then get a torrent file: http…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/qemu-notes/"><h3>QEMU and VDE Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 July, 2007</span></h3><p>UPDATE These notes have been succeeded by QEMU vde Notes Revisited Note to self To restart setup like you had before, use these commands…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/antec-su-380/"><h3>Antec SU 380<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm working on a "virtualization machine" - a computer for hosting virtual computers - and I'm doing some research on the power supply in it…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/mydnsconfig/"><h3>MyDNSConfig<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I tried updating to MyDNSConfig 1.1.0 today but ran into some issues. Turns out it was the groups field in the db. I had to have "1,2" in…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/what-is-rohs/"><h3>What is RoHS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 July, 2007</span></h3><p>The Restriction of Hazardous Substances is an effort to reduce the use of hazardous substances like mercury and lead in manufacturing. This…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/d201gly-little-valley-bios/"><h3>D201GLY Little Valley BIOS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Wondering what the intel d201gly Little Valley has to offer for BIOS? Here you go: In other words, not much!</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/pc-engines-wrap-successor-alix/"><h3>PC Engines WRAP Successor ALIX<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 July, 2007</span></h3><p>PC Engines has announced the successor to their popular WRAP (wireless router application platform) board: the ALIX. The ALIX comes in three…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/m0n0wall-atheros-5212-access-point/"><h3>M0n0wall Atheros 5212 Access Point<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 July, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally got m0n0wall to work as a wireless access point. :-) And to boot, I used a mini-pci card pilfered from one of the many Everex…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/messing-with-darwin/"><h3>Messing with Darwin Kernel Extensions kext<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 July, 2007</span></h3><p>So I'm doing some tinkering with Darwin again as I'm trying to get kqemu to work on Mac OS X. I don't think it will work but since I'm…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/07/parallels-and-qemu-can-share/"><h3>Parallels and QEMU can SHARE<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 July, 2007</span></h3><p>Wow, this is really cool. I just realized that Parallels and QEMU can share virtual disk images. I'm sure there are issues with this, but…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/converting-parallels-machines-to-vmware-fusion/"><h3>Converting Parallels Machines to VMWare Fusion and KQEMU on OSX attempts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm following these instructions to convert a Parallels machine into a VMWare Fusion Machine. So far so good. I'm doing a XP Home machine…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/ltsp-pxe-e32-tftp-open-timeout/"><h3>LTSP PXE E32 TFTP open timeout<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to setup Ubuntu ltsp. No luck, dhcp gives ip but then the tftp server never serves the goodies. Here's the strace: Looks like it…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/the-thecus-is-back-in-action/"><h3>The Thecus is back in ACTION<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Wow, I finally got the Thecus running debian again. :-) Here's the commands I used in redboot to load the initrd and kernel via tftp. I had…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/vmware-vs-parallels-vs-qemu/"><h3>VMWare vs. Parallels vs. QEMU<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 June, 2007</span></h3><p>VMWare Fusion I was right about VMWare on Mac OS X - they are going to charge for it. Its actually not a bad price though, $79 or $39 if…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/m0n0wall-development-environment/"><h3>m0n0wall Development Environment<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to setup a development environment for m0n0wall on my Macbook, but now I'm running into a weird problem with FreeBSD when…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/askoziapbx-on-an-hp-t5135/"><h3>AskoziaPBX on an HP t5135<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Here are the technical details for the installation of AskoziaPBX on an HP t5135 thin client: These are the steps I took, your situation…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/embedded-thoughts/"><h3>Embedded Thoughts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Compact flash is a pain in the neck. The fact that some cards support DMA and others don't is really aggravating. Write limitations are…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/soekris-net4501-bios-update/"><h3>Soekris net4501 BIOS Update<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Updating the BIOS on a Soekris net4801 I found out why my net4501 was going slow: the latest bios had the cpu cache disabled. :-) Its so…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/little-valley-info-from-debian/"><h3>Little Valley Info from Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Even More Information About the Intel D201gly Note: If you are interested in buy a bunch of these, check out the post on my-tech-deals.com…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/lvs-ipvs-fin-wait/"><h3>LVS ipvs FIN WAIT<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I setup heartbeat and ldirectord recently for use with ipvs, basically a manually configured ultramonkey. I was running into issues with the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/memory-tips-for-debian-on-t5135/"><h3>Memory tips for Debian on t5135<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 June, 2007</span></h3><p>These are my notes on how to reduce memory consumption of debian on an HP t5135 thin client. Add to modules blacklist: Remove device mapper…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/openclinica-tarball/"><h3>OpenClinica Tarball<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 June, 2007</span></h3><p>If you are looking for the OpenClinica tarball, you can download it here. They require you to register even though it is open source…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/data-evolution-dectop-versus-linksys-nslu2/"><h3>Data Evolution decTop versus Linksys NSLU2<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 June, 2007</span></h3><p>A Thorough Comparison of the Data Evolution Dectop and the Linksys NSLU2 Both the Data Evolution dectop and the Linksys NSLU2 can run Debian…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/dectop-debian-tips/"><h3>decTop Debian Tips<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Here are some of my notes I took while installing Debian GNU/Linux on the dectop. Edit /etc/default/acpid: Add to the bottom of /etc…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/dectop-pic-arrival/"><h3>decTop Pic Arrival<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 June, 2007</span></h3><p>The two decTop PIC's I ordered arrived from FedEx today, and upon opening the box I was very disappointed to find that the "10/100 Ethernet…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/intels-little-valley-mini-itx-board/"><h3>D201GLY Intel s Little Valley Mini ITX Board<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 June, 2007</span></h3><p>More Thoughts on Intel's Little Valley Mini-ITX Board The Intel D201GLY mini-itx mainboard I ordered arrived today. This little board has…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/pfsense-versus-m0n0wall/"><h3>pfsense versus m0n0wall<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 June, 2007</span></h3><p>A Comparison of pfSense and m0n0wall I spent some time tinkering around with pfsense today - its very nice. What I like best about it is…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/selienium-jabber-notes/"><h3>Selienium Jabber Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 June, 2007</span></h3><p>We are working on trying out as many Selenium functions as possible that we can find in the Selenium reference document. Here's a quick IM…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/scratch/"><h3>Scratch<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Scratch is a design program that allows you to take graphics and images and create elaborate, stories, games and pictures to share on the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/vde-qemu-on-ubuntu/"><h3>VDE QEMU on Ubuntu<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 June, 2007</span></h3><p>My notes on setting up VDE (virtual distributed ethernet) for use with QEMU on Ubuntu. No kqemu for the moment. I'm following the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/freenas-on-a-asus-terminator-c3/"><h3>FreeNAS on a ASUS Terminator C3<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm running FreeNAS on an ASUS Terminator T1-C3 Intel Socket 370 Barebone. Took a little fiddling to get going, but now its running well…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/adventures-with-microsoft-outlook/"><h3>Adventures with Microsoft Outlook<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Ugh! I can't stand Microsoft products personally, but the majority of my customers prefer to use it and since I'm happy to help them out, I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/imap-versus-microsoft/"><h3>IMAP versus Microsoft<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 June, 2007</span></h3><p>If there is one thing Microsoft and Google should be able to get along with is not working well with IMAP. For some reason, they don't…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/my-mega-server/"><h3>My Mega Server<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Over a year ago, I built our heavy duty mega-server. It has dual AMD Opteron chips, runs Debian and has a 1 TB RAID storage system. This was…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/soekris-net4501-m0n0wall-error/"><h3>Soekris net4501 m0n0wall error<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 June, 2007</span></h3><p>If I ssh into a shell through a vpn running on a WRAP behind a filtered bridge running on a net4501 and then run dmesg, ps -A, or ifconfig…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/pfsense/"><h3>Quick pfSense Review<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 June, 2007</span></h3><p>pfSense is a FreeBSD-based firewall inspired by m0n0wall and after a quick trial run, it looks very nice. I just tried the VMWare virtual…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/m0n0wall-on-soekris-net4501/"><h3>m0n0wall on Soekris net4501<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Unfortunately the webGUI for m0n0wall on the net4501 is REALLY SLOW. I mean molasses. I'm wondering if I have mine configured wrong because…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/mini-mac-update/"><h3>Mac Mini Migration Assistant<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been trying to use the Migration Assistant to get all my data from my old machine onto the mini mac. I keep running into the same…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/mac-ports-and-fink/"><h3>Mac Ports and Fink<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I've recently started using Fink and Darwin / Mac Ports recently, and they have improved so much over the past few years. From being totally…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/postfix-update-on-gentoo/"><h3>Postfix Update on Gentoo<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I updated one of our gentoo servers yesterday using portage / emerge. Since it runs gentoo, the upgrades can sometimes get a little hairy…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/msi-k9vgm-v-sempron-3000-cpufreq/"><h3>MSI K9VGM V Sempron 3000 cpufreq<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to get a cpufreq driver loaded for a Sempron 3000+ in an MSI K9VGM-V barebones to reduce power consumption. Doesn't look good…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/sil-3132-pci-express-sata-ii-cards/"><h3>Sil 3132 PCI Express SATA II Cards<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally got my PCI Express SATA II cards working with Debian GNU/Linux! PCI Express and SATA II are relatively new technology, so support…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/aopen-machine-rebuild/"><h3>AOpen Machine Rebuild<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm rebuilding my AOpen small footprint PC which I had originally setup as a fast, low power NAS device. It didn't work out that way. I'm…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/encore-gigabit-ethernet-pci-card/"><h3>Encore Gigabit Ethernet PCI Card<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying out an Encore Gigabit Ethernet card I bought from Newegg in an ASUS Terminator C3. The card uses the Realtek chip, which uses the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/high-availability-nodes-on-the-same-subnet/"><h3>High Availability Nodes on the Same Subnet<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 June, 2007</span></h3><p>If you have more than one set of ha nodes on the same subnet, you might see authentication failures in your logs if you are using broadcast…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/apple-google/"><h3>Apple Google<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Wired ran a "rumors" story about a broad reaching collaboration between Apple and Google recently. I could definitely see that happening…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/vmware/"><h3>VMWare<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Finally getting around to working with VMWare, very nice actually. I can see how this could really come in handy. I'm wondering why it is…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/alix-platform/"><h3>ALIX Platform<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 June, 2007</span></h3><p>PC Engines is a board designer / manufacturer based in Switzerland. AMD recently stopped manufacturing the chip in their primary product…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/drbd-install-on-debian/"><h3>DRBD install on Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 June, 2007</span></h3><p>This is how I install and run DRDB on Debian GNU/Linux using module-assistant. I ended up using the module-assistant, worked fine. Couple of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/embedded-linux-networking-devices/"><h3>Embedded Linux Networking Devices<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 June, 2007</span></h3><p>The best use of embedded linux (and bsd!), in my opinion, is for networking devices like firewalls and VPN endpoints. Examples include…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/mini-mac/"><h3>Mac Mini<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 June, 2007</span></h3><p>This machine is rad. It's about twice the size of my cd-walkman, and way faster than my old machine. I like how easy it was to set up. Once…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/cpu-frequency-scaling-on-hp-thin-clients/"><h3>CPU Frequency Scaling on HP Thin Clients<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 June, 2007</span></h3><p>The HP thin clients use VIA processors, for low power goodness. I can use the longhaul cpufreq driver without a hitch on my t5000 as it uses…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/cpufrequtils/"><h3>cpufrequtils<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 June, 2007</span></h3><p>After manually wrestling with cpufreq kernel modules for the longest time, I finally found cpufrequtils. It works great, allowing me to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/macfuse-040-released/"><h3>Google s Open Source MacFUSE 0.4.0 sshfs Package Released<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Amit, the lead developer and Google employee, has released the latest version of MacFUSE. MacFUSE is an AWESOME tool to let you mount remote…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/mount-nfs-share-from-mac-os-x-client/"><h3>Mount NFS share from Mac OS X client<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I thought it would be much hard to mount an NFS share onto a Mac OS X client, but I did run into some issues I'll share here. I tried: sudo…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/new-macbooks/"><h3>New Macbooks<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 June, 2007</span></h3><p>ZDNet is reporting Apple's update of their Macbook Pro line, and indeed, they are featured prominently at Apple.com. The big deal? Well for…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/old-technology-is-good-technology/"><h3>Old Technology is Good Technology<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 June, 2007</span></h3><p>The 3Com 3C509 network interface card. The Ultra ATA 100 IDE hard disk drive interface. VGA. Fast Ethernet 10/100. Floppy disks. CD-ROMs. 3…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/nfs-drbd-lvm-software-raid0/"><h3>NFS DRBD LVM Software RAID0<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm planning on building another high availability cluster, this time for storage. My plan is to use basic hardware, and to use software to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/turion-on-the-desktop/"><h3>Turion on the desktop<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 June, 2007</span></h3><p>Uh-oh. Maybe a faulty dsdt? I'll try this and this: More debug output: Strange, but it actually seems like it is working. At least I can…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/cidr-notes/"><h3>CIDR Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 June, 2007</span></h3><p>If you have a CIDR subnet assigned to you from an ISP or a colocation provider, here's how you can understand it better, or at least how I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/mdadm/"><h3>mdadm raid kernel panic resync<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 June, 2007</span></h3><p>For whatever reason, my file server crash last night. I'm now trying to fix it. I booted into single user mode (had to cancel the fsck that…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/power-outage-causes-mysql-database-failure/"><h3>Power Outage Causes MySQL Database Failure<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 June, 2007</span></h3><p>This morning I woke up to find on of my networks without a database. Why? I presume it was caused by an electrical failure in the town where…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/why-i-like-imap/"><h3>Why I like IMAP<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 June, 2007</span></h3><p>A client of mine just emailed me about setting up email on her laptop as well as her desktop, so I told her about IMAP. Its too bad GMail…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/debian-testing-update-to-mdadm-253/"><h3>Debian testing update to mdadm 2.5.3<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I just updated mdadm, and noticed the message recommending I read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz: Ugh. I'll have to take…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/is-areca-the-new-3ware/"><h3>Is Areca the new 3Ware<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 June, 2007</span></h3><p>As you may know, 3Ware was bought awhile back, and since then, I for one have not been happy with the change. In perusing the goods at…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/notes-on-high-performance-mysql-by-jeremy-zawodny/"><h3>High Performance MySQL by Jeremy Zawodny<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm reading Jeremy Zawodny's "High Performance MySQL" via Oreilly's online Safari service. Its quite good, and I really enjoyed the page on…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/06/great-quality-nx-l515/"><h3>Great Quality NX L515<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 June, 2007</span></h3><p>I bought a $350 notebook from Fry's outpost.com. I didn't know what to expect, but I'm really impressed, with both the great quality of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/jedit-in-conjunction-with-selenium/"><h3>jEdit In Conjunction with Selenium<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Today I used jEdit to write scripts to run with Selenium. In jEdit you basically write an html script telling Selenium what action to take…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/xfonts-scalable-bug/"><h3>xfonts scalable bug<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Could this error be related: Attempted fixes: This completed without a problem: This also reported the same perl error, but generated a slew…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/failed-to-fetch-size-mismatch/"><h3>Failed to fetch Size mismatch<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm using apt-cacher, but now whenever I update one of my machines that uses the cache, I get the above error. What gives? I just noticed…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/slicehost/"><h3>Slicehost<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 May, 2007</span></h3><p>So I just cancelled my last outsourced hosting provider, and in my opinion, the best one. It was slicehost.com, and they provide virtual…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/wireless-speakers/"><h3>Wireless Speakers<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 May, 2007</span></h3><p>My husband's birthday is coming up so I am hunting for wireless speakers, indoor or ourdoor. I'd love something that can be hooked right to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/fsf-rant/"><h3>GPLv3 Rant<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 May, 2007</span></h3><p>OK, I'm getting a little impatient with the Free Software Foundation's work on the GPLv3 and the AGPLv2. This post is what's getting me all…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/bonjour-bookmarks/"><h3>Bonjour Bookmarks<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been wondering about network-based bookmarks. Not a website where you can bookmark stuff, but a network service that will publish your…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/selenium/"><h3>Selenium<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm going to start getting into software testing, and word on the street is that Selenium is a pretty decent program for doing this…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/using-selenium/"><h3>Using Selenium<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I just took a crack at using the software testing program Selenium, and I have to say I am impressed. Although I have limited knowledge of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/memory-consumption-and-a-g5-intel-transition-gone-bad/"><h3>Memory Consumption and a G5 Intel Transition Gone Bad<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been noticing my iMac lagging REALLY bad when trying to sync my machines with unison. I investigated, and here's what I found: http…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/solar-panel-pictures/"><h3>Solar Panel Pictures<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Power from the solar panel: The portable power pack: The solar panel with the battery: Solar panel fresh out of the box: ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/creating-a-pear-nexista-package/"><h3>Creating a PEAR Nexista package<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm planning on creating a PEAR nexista package with the next snapshot. Lots to do! The code needs to be brought up to PEAR's coding…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/gnucash-on-ubuntu/"><h3>GnuCash on Ubuntu<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to install a more recent version of GnuCash on an Ubuntu machine using these instructions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/back-to-web-apps/"><h3>Back to Web Apps<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm working on the PBooks codebase, preparing it to be released as AGPL, and I'm scratching my head wondering whether I should release the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/how-to-build-a-fault-tolerant-internet-service/"><h3>How to build a high availability fault tolerant internet service<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Ultra Monkey: heartbeat and lvs Location fault tolerance can be achieved using ultramonkey, a project to combine the best parts of heartbeat…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/installing-flexysvn/"><h3>Installing FlexySvn<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying out FlexySVN: http://pecl.php.net/package/svn Found this: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=10811&amp;edit=1 - Fixed! OK, how…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/mirroring-ubuntu-and-debian/"><h3>Mirroring Ubuntu and Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I've decided to download and mirror the entire ubuntu and debian packages and distributions. That way I can sync them late at night and have…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/nexista-user-admin/"><h3>Nexista User Admin<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 May, 2007</span></h3><p>The Nexista authentication and user administration code is coming along. These packages were written by another and I'm just maintaining the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/installing-bugzilla-on-debian-testing/"><h3>Installing Bugzilla on Debian Testing<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Now trying to install bugzilla on Debian testing... apt-get install bugzilla Choosing auto install of db... (though if it doesn't work check…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/debian-on-usb/"><h3>Debian on USB<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 May, 2007</span></h3><p>For my first High Availability project, I'm using HP t5135s, powered by debian on USB drives. I chose the Corsair 1GB USB drive and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/flash-memory-ide-interface/"><h3>Flash Memory IDE Interface<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 May, 2007</span></h3><p>The t5135 has these IDE Flash chips installed in them: These are called "44-pin IDE Flash Modules", and can range from approximately $10 to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/via-processors-and-cpufreq/"><h3>VIA Processors and cpufreq<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 May, 2007</span></h3><p>The more I learn about the VIA C3, C7, and EDEN cpu chips, the more I like them. I've been trying to figure out more about how to get acpi…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/solar-powered-slug/"><h3>Solar Powered Slug<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been interested in building a solar powered slug for some time, and then it hit me - "Why not use automobile-based, commodity items…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/my-navisite-experience/"><h3>Protected My Navisite Experience<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I don't believe it, but Navisite is still trying to bill me. I used to co-locate several servers with Navisite. I stopped when they, in my…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/598/"><h3>MythTV Setup Screenshots<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 May, 2007</span></h3><p>¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/dd-usb/"><h3>dd usb<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to duplicate a usb drive I installed debian. To do so, I'm using the dd function, and I'm actually doing it from the Mac OS X…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/the-latest-and-greatest-in-machines/"><h3>the latest and greatest in Machines<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Nothing beats a good looking case for a computer, there is something about it that says, "I'm so techno-savy even my machine looks good…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/wintv-pvr-250/"><h3>WinTV PVR 250<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm Trying to get my WinTV-PVR-250 working in conjunction with MythTV. http://dipper.info/project/ivtv/ A continuation of this failed…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/open-source-licenses-gpl-lgpl-agpl/"><h3>Open Source Licenses GPL LGPL AGPL<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Here are some licenses I've been reviewing lately: GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt If I understand this license correctly, once the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/accounting-database-review-and-database-modeling-notes/"><h3>Accounting Database Review and Database Modeling Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm preparing to release pbooks and of course tweaking the database model a little. As I work on the db model, I've reviewing some other…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/dns-notes/"><h3>DNS Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 May, 2007</span></h3><p>DNS Introduction Should I use "www" before my domain names? I say yes, but there are many cases where this is not necessary. To "www" or not…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/samba-notes/"><h3>Samba Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 May, 2007</span></h3><p>"Global parameter min protocol found in service section!" - what does this mean? I had this in one of my share configurations: Can't connect…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/tips-for-server-and-network-based-computing/"><h3>Tips for Server and Network Based Computing<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Last night at a business networking meeting, I was speaking with another member about computing, and how his company has switched to a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/sql-ledger-debian/"><h3>SQL Ledger Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Installing SQL-Ledger on debian for use with apache2: Grrrr. ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/microsoft-versus-the-world/"><h3>Microsoft versus the world<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 May, 2007</span></h3><p>If you haven't heard, Microsoft is reportedly alleging that they deserve royalties from linux and open source projects. In my humble opinion…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/linux-devices/"><h3>Linux Devices<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 May, 2007</span></h3><p>LinuxDevices.com is an awesome website. I'm checking out the news there and this is what I'm finding extra cool: Article on Meraki at…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/w-gpg-error-httpsecuritydebianorg-etchupdates-release-unknown-error-executing-gpgv/"><h3>W GPG error http security.debian.org etch updates Release Unknown error executing gpgv<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 May, 2007</span></h3><p>My system time was all messed up. Installed ntpdate, synced, and error went away. :-) ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/linux-add-user-to-group/"><h3>linux add user to group<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Note to self: this is how you add a user to a group in linux: usermod -Ggroupname username Except for the fact that I'm using nss_mysql, so…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/anatomy-of-a-function/"><h3>Anatomy of a function<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 May, 2007</span></h3><p>A function allows you to process data on demand. For example, on the site sandbox.sketch99.com, we use javascript functions to allow…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/drdb-network-speed-requirement/"><h3>drdb network speed requirement<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I wonder if its possible to use drdb over a slow link like 768k uplink? Good question, but a better question is what I'm REALLY trying to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/firefox-versus-camino/"><h3>Firefox versus Camino<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Ever since I started using my friend Jeremy's IIci back in the 80's, I've been a Mac fan. (You can check out more of my Mac ramblings at…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/macbook-fan-speed-control/"><h3>Macbook Fan Speed Control<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 May, 2007</span></h3><p>My Macbook gets way too hot! I just tried out two fan controls: "Fan Control" and "smcFanControl" and I like smcFanControl better. Simpler…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/mod-ndb/"><h3>mod ndb<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 May, 2007</span></h3><p>This looks pretty awesome: http://code.google.com/p/mod-ndb/ Mod_ndb is an Apache module that provides a Web Services API for MySQL Cluster…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/learning-ruby/"><h3>Learning Ruby<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I signed back up for Oreilly's Safari Service, and based on my positive experience with WATIR, I'm reading the O'Reilly Ruby cookbook. Looks…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/debian-etch/"><h3>Debian Etch<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 May, 2007</span></h3><p>We scrapped our attempts at using Knoppmyth to install mythtv because we were experiencing too many problems. So we instead used debian…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/1and1com-price-change-for-beginner-package/"><h3>1and1.com Price Change for Beginner Package<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 May, 2007</span></h3><p>1and1 changed their pricing structure for their Beginner Package on March 22, 2007 from $2.99 to $3.99 per month. I purchased six months in…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/network-traffic-control-tc-and-quality-of-service-qos/"><h3>Network Traffic Control tc and Quality of Service QoS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->09 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I love tinkering with traffic control and queuing disciplines. It all goes back to my days at Tufts when I took "Stochastic Modeling" and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/debian-and-m0n0wall-vpn/"><h3>Debian and m0n0wall VPN<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I've got everything setup, but still phase 1 is not happening. GOT IT! It was the firewall on one of the servers. That is awesome. I was…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/emailing-peej/"><h3>Emailing PEEJ<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I just emailed Paul James about REST: I've been reading your stuff since you first started foowd, can you believe it? :-) Anyway, I am…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/web-traffic-tracking-and-analysis/"><h3>Web Traffic Tracking and Analysis QA Testing<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Off-site Services: Apache Web Server Logging: Misc: And then to complete the loop: * PHP Unit* Selenium - http://wiki.openqa.org/pages…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/xmlnsmap-sitemap-versus-topology-or/"><h3>xmlns map Sitemap versus Topology or<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 May, 2007</span></h3><p>In my review of Roy Fielding's REST dissertation, I came across the term topology and how it relates to the term sitemap. This encounter led…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/fieldings-dissertation/"><h3>Fielding s REST Dissertation<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm reading Roy Fielding's dissertation: "Representational State Transfer", and here are my notes: Configurations - use of the word topology…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/rest-easy-with-nexista/"><h3>REST Easy with Nexista<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 May, 2007</span></h3><p>I previously blogged about my theories on separation of functionality and how I wanted to setup a RESTful app API methodology in the nexista…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/xslt-and-entities/"><h3>XSLT and Entities<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 May, 2007</span></h3><p>The XML and XSLT functions in PHP handle entities in the following manner: DOM document loads the actual XSL as an XML document first. As…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/explanations-of-various-web-technologies/"><h3>Explanations of Various Web Technologies<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Hyper Text Markup Language - Is used to create viewable elements in a web browser. The elements are non changing and it is used mostly for…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/05/macfuse-and-sshfs/"><h3>MacFUSE and sshfs<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 May, 2007</span></h3><p>Looks like the newest release of MacFUSE and sshfs are all I need to turn the switch for AFP and SMB to "off". That'll be a great move! To…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/separating-functionality/"><h3>Separating Functionality<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 April, 2007</span></h3><p>In my humble opinion, one of the most important and fundamental aspects to software development and usability is the separation of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/symfony-skeleton/"><h3>symfony skeleton<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I am customizing symfony's project and app skeletons: Deleted: Created: I've added this skeleton to the nexista sandbox project: http://code…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/bbpress-10-alpha/"><h3>bbpress 1.0 alpha<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Just updated bbpress svn checkout and getting this error: ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/knoppmyth/"><h3>Knoppmyth<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I just recently installed knoppmyth on a computer. These are the steps I took to install the program. First I went to www.knoppmyth.net and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/installing-debian-on-the-lsu2/"><h3>Installing Debian on the NLSU2<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Today I installed debian on NLSU2. An NLSU2 is a device that lets you access a hard drive over a network. We had some issues attempting to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/unslung/"><h3>Unslung<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying out unslung as opposed to Debian for one of my slugs. Its pretty cool, but I'm having this problem: Guess I should have read the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/first-debian-installation/"><h3>First Debian Installation<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Today I installed Debian for the first time. I am use to using windows but I hear a lot of good things about Linux systems. Also I am…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/pecl-problems-on-xen-ubuntu/"><h3>PECL Problems on Xen Ubuntu<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I've increased the memory limits of all the php.ini files I can find! It turns out that the pecl command was being passed the "-n" option…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/build-your-own-external-hard-drive/"><h3>Build Your Own External Hard Drive<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Today I built my own external hard drive. Fairly standard as far as electronics go, but still a good thing to know how to do. Im using this…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/failed-to-open-stream-infinite-recursion-prevented-in/"><h3>Nexista XSL error failed to open stream infinite recursion prevented in<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Getting this error when trying to process xslt in php: Never figured out what was causing it... ...but now its happening again... I still…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/mysql-replication-issues/"><h3>MySQL Replication Issues<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 April, 2007</span></h3><p>error log I think this happened because I changed IP numbers on the replicating server. I issued the command "RESET SLAVE" (though I don't…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/my-jedit-config/"><h3>My jEdit Config<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I love jEdit, and here's a few things I found useful: * Saving & Backup: Set backup to on, but to a different directory, # prefix and suffix…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/symfony-nexista/"><h3>Symfony Nexista<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 April, 2007</span></h3><p>IMPORTANT: Symfony - great backend support via creole, internationalization, unit testing, finely grained configuration support, CLI…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/symfony/"><h3>Symfony<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm finally trying out symfony! Installed framework via pearDownloaded sandbox siteViewed welcome page! That was pretty easy. I actually…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/symfony-versus-nexista/"><h3>Symfony versus Nexista<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Symfony is a lot more like Nexista than I originally thought. I use the following web directory structure right under the web server…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/nexista-at-google-code-projects/"><h3>Nexista at Google Code Projects<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Google Code is a free tool for managing software development projects. I use it to manage the Nexista PHP application framework project…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/canceling-netfirms-account/"><h3>Canceling NetFirms Account<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Since I was able to successfully transfer my domains from Netfirms to DynDns.com, I've written to NetFirms to cancel my account and not…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/new-comment-spam-defense/"><h3>New Comment Spam Defense<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying out a new comment spam defense: Spam Karma 2. This is in addition to Bad Behavior, and I probably don't need both, but Bad…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/debian-pycentral-bug/"><h3>Debian pycentral bug<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Trying to upgrade python2.4: Edited /usr/bin/pycentral: Just commented out the last two lines of the file. Tried again, worked fine…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/transferring-domains-from-netfirms-to-godaddy/"><h3>Transferring Domains from NetFirms to GoDaddy<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 April, 2007</span></h3><p>NetFirms has always been slow for me, and so when I tried to connect to one of my blogs yesterday and was greeted with a database connection…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/wordpress-mu-versus-debian-wordpress/"><h3>Wordpress MU versus Debian Wordpress<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying out Wordpress Multi-user and having a tough time with it. First off, some of the assumptions they make about domains and urls is…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/convert-phpbb2-to-bbpress/"><h3>Convert phpbb2 to bbpress<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I just converted a phpbb2 database to bbpress database using this script: Convert phpbb2 to bbpress database It was surprisingly easy to do…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/adobe-illustrator/"><h3>Adobe Illustrator<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Today I used adobe illustrator to edit and make dynamic icons for a program called Uplink. Im a newbie when it comes to illustrator, but I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/another-ejabberd-attempt/"><h3>Another ejabberd attempt<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Why is ejabberd so difficult? I have not idea, but it is. The problem is caused by networking - it wants to check DNS for hostname…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/finding-an-open-domain-name/"><h3>Finding an open Domain Name<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 April, 2007</span></h3><p>So until about five minutes ago I had no idea how to determine whether a domain name was already in use or not. Normally I'd just type in…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/build-your-own-external-cd-burner/"><h3>Build Your Own External CD Burner<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Building your own external CD Burner is easy! Just buy a 5.25" external enclosure (they cost about $20) and a CDR (cost about the same: $2…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/hewlett-packard-t5135/"><h3>Hewlett Packard t5135<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 April, 2007</span></h3><p>Three Hewlett Packard t5135 machines showed up today. I couldn't get the bios up, but it booted off usb anyway. I started off the debian usb…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/04/major-improvements-to-googles-webmaster-tools/"><h3>Major Improvements to Google s Webmaster Tools<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 April, 2007</span></h3><p>I just logged into Google's Webmaster tools, where you can supply an XML sitemap of your website to help them better understand your site's…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/nokia-n80/"><h3>Nokia n800<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 March, 2007</span></h3><p>The nokia n800 is a beautiful and well designed machine. Some notable improvements over the 770 include: handlebar / stand built in faster…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/debian-usb-hp-t5000/"><h3>Debian USB HP t5000<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to install debian on an HP t5000 thin client, using a USB drive as an expanded storage device for the base system. Here's what I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/hp-t5000-thin-client/"><h3>HP t5000 Thin Client<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 March, 2007</span></h3><p>The top comes off... The other top comes off... gotta love those passively cooled VIA Eden chips! No stuff to tinker with?!?!? BIOS has…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/amazon-s3-via-jungle-disk-on-ubuntu/"><h3>Amazon S3 via Jungle Disk on Ubuntu<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 March, 2007</span></h3><p>We wrote an article about Amazon S3 ( Amazon S3 Duplicity with Debian ) awhile back and I'm again looking into it as a way to store backups…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/freenas-of-debian-on-cf/"><h3>Freenas or Debian on Compact Flash<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Freenas is cool, but for many reasons I'd rather go with debian. Too bad there isn't a debian distribution designed for compact flash…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/review-of-dreamhost/"><h3>Review of Dreamhost<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Dreamhost Dreamhost's biggest asset is their control panel, no doubt about it. Its user friendly, comprehensive, though maybe a bit slow…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/ubuntu-ipsec/"><h3>Ubuntu IPSec<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm setting up Ipsec on ubuntu: ran into problems: same thing, maybe the errors are OK? This the problem from syslog? This page translated…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/audacity/"><h3>Audacity<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Audacity is a really great freeware program that allows you to edit and compress your audio files. It's easy to install and get started. If…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/amcc-3ware-9650se-sata-ii-pci-express-raid-card-review/"><h3>AMCC 3Ware 9650SE SATA II PCI Express RAID Card Review<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 March, 2007</span></h3><p>PS - One last thing about the AOpen - the display was crazy at 1280x1024 with wierd squiggly lines all over the place. Not sure if it was a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/c7-mirror-machines/"><h3>C7 Mirror Machines<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 March, 2007</span></h3><p>My next setup will be with Via C7's, thanks to this PC Chips motherboard: ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/ext3-performance-settings/"><h3>Ext3 Performance Settings<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Just did some Googling on linux filesystem performance, and here's what I gleaned. Most often, ext3 is the best choice. If you know what you…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/mini-lcd-displays-hvac-monitoring-for-computers/"><h3>Mini LCD Displays HVAC Monitoring for Computers<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 March, 2007</span></h3><p>One of my servers was shutting down recently due to a faulty fan, so heat has been a raised concern for me. I just ordered some themometers…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/turion-64/"><h3>Another Turion 64 Desktop Article<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I bought a socket 754 Turion to go with the AOpen XC Cube EX761 I got from newegg.com, but the power consumption is high for the hardware…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/freenas/"><h3>Freenas<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm giving Freenas (version 0.68) a whirl. I've got an AOpen XC Cube and a AMCC 3Ware 9650SE SATA RAID 0/1 card. I'll be using RAID0 for…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/g5-apple-imac-hard-drive-failure/"><h3>G5 Apple iMac Hard Drive Failure<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->20 March, 2007</span></h3><p>My sister's G5 iMac failed, and she happened to have the extended Apple Care warranty. I advised her to bring the iMac into a Mac store for…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/keeping-cool/"><h3>Keeping Cool<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 March, 2007</span></h3><p>My office recently upgraded the MDF room and installed a duct fan and a "Duct Stat TM" in-line thermostat to turn the fan on when the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/apt-get-hold/"><h3>debian apt get hold<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 March, 2007</span></h3><p>From the apt-get manpage: will hold back libc6, useful when you want to hold back a package from upgrading if you call: An even easier way…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/cpu-undervolting-and-underclocking/"><h3>CPU Undervolting and Underclocking<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 March, 2007</span></h3><p>In my continuing quest to reduce PC power consumption, I'm researching underclocking and undervolting. Underclocking in linux is fairly…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/mac-os-x-migration/"><h3>Mac OS X Migration<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm migrating my info from a Dual-G5 energy hog to a 20" iMac Intel. The migration processis going smoothly so far! It will be interesting…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/m0n0wall-vpn/"><h3>m0n0wall VPN<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I finally got my second m0n0wall device (m1n1wall from Netgate) setup, and I tried to access it remotely from a tunnelled vnc connection…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/the-via-c7-chip/"><h3>The Via C7 Chip<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm very pleased with the C7 chip - its ultra low power - a laptop I have runs under 9 watts. Amazing. Anyway, I just picked up a couple of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/asterisk-pbx-update/"><h3>Asterisk PBX Update<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->07 March, 2007</span></h3><p>The time has come for me to upgrade my Asterisk PBX hardware and configuration. Currently, our local area network server is a "swiss army…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/disable-sound-in-ubuntu/"><h3>Disable Sound in Ubuntu<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Hooray! I finally disabled sound altogether in Ubuntu! It was surprisingly difficult... but in the end all I did was copy the noALSA…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/everex-nc1500-dsdt-fix/"><h3>Everex NC1500 DSDT Fix<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 March, 2007</span></h3><p>---- Scope (_TZ) didn't do anything...---- changed line: 2532 from 0x02 to 0x03 nothing...----- I kind of think its working now…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/freenx/"><h3>Freenx<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Freenx is awesome! I'm having trouble with a yellow mouse though. Argh. After trying to debug it via Freenx client, I've determined it is…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/new-workstation-setup/"><h3>New iMac Workstation Setup<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Some ideas on setting up a new workstation: 20 iMac with external monitor. Tibook powering second external monitor, actually running remote…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/operation-reduce-dual-g5-power-consumption/"><h3>Operation Reduce Dual G5 Power Consumption<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Dumbfounded by how much energy is consumed by a dual-G5 PowerMac, I've decided to do everything I can to reduce its energy consumption. Some…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/review-of-network-solutions/"><h3>Review of Network Solutions<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I don't use Network Solutions hosting services personally, but one of my customers uses them for their email and web hosting. I use them to…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/my-first-q-install/"><h3>My First Q install<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Went to kju-app.org. Downloaded Q software. Created a VM (virtual Machine) Chose install Disk Image, from the hardware menu. CD-rom tab…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/ubuntu-raid/"><h3>Ubuntu Software RAID0<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 March, 2007</span></h3><p>Trying to install linux on a sata raid on a asus vintage machine - mad issues! Now trying Suse - still crashed. After many failed attempts…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/low-energy-pcs/"><h3>Low Energy PCs<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 March, 2007</span></h3><p>http://pda.hardware.info/en-US/articles/amdnY2pvZGOa/Research_actual_power_usage_modern_PCs/ http://www.pcsforeveryone.com/product_info.php…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/network-interface-cards/"><h3>Network Interface Cards<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm doing some research on network interface cards, looking at Intel cards to start: PWLA8490MT - good for Windows servers (offloads tcp…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/03/toshiba-5205-s703-fan/"><h3>Toshiba 5205 s703 fan<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 March, 2007</span></h3><p>I can't get the darn fan on my Toshiba notebook to turn off. Grrr. CPU details: Fans: Bios: Still purring away. :-( Temp: Trip points (this…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/giving-up-on-the-thecus-n2100/"><h3>Giving up on the Thecus n2100<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I've decided that the Thecus n2100 is not worth the effort. While I had fun and learned a lot in setting up Debian on it, it has consumed a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/the-thecus-isnt-dead-yet/"><h3>The Thecus isn t dead yet<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Wow, after many failed attempts to resurrect the Thecus, its back in action! Many thanks to: Darn - still not back from the dead. I'll have…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/oreilly-book-reviews/"><h3>O Reilly Book Reviews<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 February, 2007</span></h3><p>As I recently posted, I'm using O'Reilly's Safari online library service. So far I've really enjoyed the easy access to high quality…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/toshiba-satelite-5205-s703-server/"><h3>Toshiba Satellite 5205 S703 Server<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to setup a multi-purpose server on a Toshiba Satelite 5205-S703. I've been using Knoppix to investigate the possibility so far…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/buying-free-software/"><h3>Buying Free Software<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->25 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Yep, I just paid money for free software. Why? Because I found a company that sells media at affordable prices with fair shipping prices…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/designing-the-low-power-pc/"><h3>Designing the low power PC<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I love to build computers, and I love efficiency. After doing a little surfing on these subjects, I was surprised to find how much power…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/mac-os-x-hostname/"><h3>Mac OS X Hostname<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Following up on the recent post about setting proper fully qualified domain name and hostname settings in linux, I'm doing the same for Mac…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/puppy-linux-on-toshiba-satellite/"><h3>Puppy Linux on Toshiba Satellite<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been tinkering around with my Toshiba Satellite 2805-S301 laptop and finding some interesting figures. I removed the hard drive and the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/self-signed-ssl-certificates/"><h3>Self Signed SSL Certificates<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->24 February, 2007</span></h3><p>With my new m0n0wall, I'm finally getting around to getting my security certificates in order. In my humble opinion, I don't think it makes…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/kurobox-and-more-embedded-device-thoughts/"><h3>Kurobox and more embedded device thoughts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 February, 2007</span></h3><p>As an alternative and "midpoint" to the NSLU2 and the Thecus n2100 there is the kurobox. The kurobox is especially designed by Revolution as…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/more-thecus-n2100-pics/"><h3>More Thecus n2100 Pics<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Here's another couple shots of the Thecus, showing the serial connection, and an extra fan I added. These two are quieter than the original…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/openswan-debian-m0n0wall-vpn/"><h3>OpenSwan Debian M0n0wall VPN<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm setting up a VPN site-to-site link from a m0n0wall firewall to a debian server: http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/examplevpn-freeswan.html…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/proper-host-and-domain-name-setups/"><h3>Proper host and domain name setups<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 February, 2007</span></h3><p>There are a few files and commands: Should at least have this: If the machine is on a local area network, this too: The above entry states…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/building-subversion-and-q/"><h3>Building subversion and Q<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 February, 2007</span></h3><p>So I've decided to try and build Q (QEMU) on my Intel Mac - so I need subversion, using these instructions on how to build subversion on a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/the-saga-continues/"><h3>The Filesystem Saga Continues<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->19 February, 2007</span></h3><p>True, the saga continues. This is a great excuse to learn logical drive images inside and out. Now I'm trying to remove unused, non…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/ntfsprogs-ntfsresize-and-ntfsclone/"><h3>ntfsprogs ntfsresize and ntfsclone<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I found out about ntfsprogs from a website about dd, and then I found a great website talking about using ntfsresize and ntfsclone with a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/move-an-existing-windows-2000-installation-to-a-virtual-machine-success/"><h3>Move an existing Windows 2000 installation to a virtual machine success<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I can't believe it, but it worked! After lots of failed attempts, I finally was able to migrate an existing Windows 2000 installation from a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/windows-is-fun-on-a-mac/"><h3>Windows is Fun on a Mac<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I can't believe I'm actually saying this, even after getting a nasty paper cut when opening my Windows XP Home OEM from Newegg.com yesterday…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/nslu2-network-bridge-usb-to-ethernet/"><h3>NSLU2 Network Bridge USB to Ethernet<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 February, 2007</span></h3><p>In planning the rebuild of our network, a new strategy I'm employing is to compartmentalize various services to different machines. I used…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/qemu-q-windows-2000-disk-image/"><h3>QEMU Q Windows 2000 Disk Image<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Here's a good one! I'm trying to use a disk image I created from a real hard drive that has Windows 2000 on it. It boots, but then gives me…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/windows-cds-licenses-and-upgrades/"><h3>Windows CD s licenses and upgrades<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Right now I have the following Windows licenses:* Windows ME OEM on a Dell workstation - I have the original media* Windows 200…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/microsoft-license-types/"><h3>Microsoft license types<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 February, 2007</span></h3><p>For my own sanity, I have to take notes on how the Microsoft licenses are structured: This license can be installed on any computer that…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/i-want-adobe-cs3/"><h3>I want Adobe CS3<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 February, 2007</span></h3><p>When the heck is Adobe CS3 coming out?? They released Photoshop CS3 beta a few weeks ago, but I'm ready for an Intel optimized suite. Rumor…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/virtualizing-virtualization/"><h3>Virtualizing Virtualization<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm sure everybody who has run a virtual machine has thought about running a virtual machine on top of that. Here's the same idea with a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/virtualization-with-parallels-on-mac-os-x/"><h3>Virtualization with Parallels on Mac OS X<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Virtualization is on my top list of things to check out, and since I used a Mac I have two available options: Q and Parallels. I've used Q…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/routing/"><h3>IP Addressing Subnets and Routing<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->13 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm trying to figure out a few things about network design, and I think I'm starting to get it. It used to be that you could subnet simply…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/blogger-fs/"><h3>Blogger FS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->12 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I just posted this comment to: http://mundau.blogspot.com/2006/12/bloggerfs-last-night-i-was-playing.html ¥</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/installing-sshfs-on-quantact-debian-vps/"><h3>Installing sshfs on Quantact Debian VPS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I use my Quantact VPS for testing of various things, and sshfs-fuse is one of those things. Here's what I did to get it going: No go, still…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/oreilly-safari/"><h3>O Reilly Safari<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I just signed up for O'Reilly's Safari on their 10-slot bookshelf at $19.95 / month and I like it so far. I'm trying to decide what to put…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/sshfs-on-the-thecus-n2100/"><h3>sshfs on the Thecus n2100<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I've installed sshfs on my Thecus n2100, and I can mount a filesystem. The system hangs when I try to access it. :-( I found its a module…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/cisco-thoughts/"><h3>Cisco Thoughts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 February, 2007</span></h3><p>The CEO of Cisco, John Chambers, was on Nightly Business Report recently and was very optimistic about the future of Cisco. Chambers is a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/comcast-workplace/"><h3>Comcast Workplace<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Seth from Dynamic Solutions ( a Comcast contractor ) just left after installing my new Comcast Workplace. He did a great job, was fast and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/ejabberd/"><h3>eJabberd<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Yesterday I was trying to get our Jabber server to connect to our authentication system with no avail. The server we use is very good but…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/pc-engines-wrap/"><h3>PC Engines WRAP running m0n0wall<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I've been looking at a few router / firewall devices, including Cisco, and it looks like there is a better option of using a PC Engines…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/thecus-n2100-temperature/"><h3>Thecus n2100 Fan and Temperature Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 February, 2007</span></h3><p>The fan in my Thecus n2100 is too loud, so I'm getting a new one that's hopefully quieter. The fan is running full speed at the moment and…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/design-process/"><h3>Design Process<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 February, 2007</span></h3><p></p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/no-more-metabase-schemas/"><h3>No More Metabase Schemas<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I've decided to no longer use metabase schemas. I used to think they were awesome, they became a bit of a pain once I moved to a more…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/spotlightfs/"><h3>SpotlightFS<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 February, 2007</span></h3><p>This is awesome! This is a quick way to make some of the filesystem features I've been looking for. Very very cool. SpotlightFS Sorry PC…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/apt-cacher-2/"><h3>apt cacher<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I tried running apt-cacher but I can't get it to work at all. Whenever I try to update another machine, it stalls and apt-cacher requires a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/nrpe-port/"><h3>NRPE port<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Now I'm trying to configure nrpe to work with nagios2, this follows-up on some prior work a consultant did for us. I think the only thing I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/diffurl/"><h3>diffurl<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm not using this anymore, instead opting for a http_check of each virtual host. The content check is a difficult challenge that I'll need…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/nagios-thoughts/"><h3>Nagios Thoughts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 February, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm reviewing our Nagios setup, and came up with a few thoughts: I wanted to add a second email for myself to the contact list and couldn't…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/nagios2-configuration/"><h3>Nagios2 Configuration<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->04 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Once you get your basic nagios2 configuration together, the setup is a breeze for a large installation. The use of templates makes it much…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/install-ncpl-on-debian/"><h3>Install NCPL on Debian<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Responded with: Then: Yes! Still no go, following their step: Results in: Bummer! No go... Cancelled - need make. Hmm that didn't help…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/thecus-n2100/"><h3>Thecus n2100<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->03 February, 2007</span></h3><p>The Thecus n2100 is a pretty sweet machine. I'm pleased with it already. It can really run debian! I also have an NSLU2 which I've installed…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/mac-os-x-local-imap-server-for-maildir-archives/"><h3>mac os x local imap server for maildir archives<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->02 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Rather than keep creeping the size of the last post, here's the deal: I'm installing an IMAP server locally on my Macs so that I can: The…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/email-archives/"><h3>Email Archives<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 February, 2007</span></h3><p>To archive my old emails, I keep them in courier-imap Maildir folders for easy access. I separate them by year, and then change them to be…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/notes-on-teach-yourself-c-plus-plus-in-10-minutes/"><h3>Notes on Teach Yourself C plus plus in 10 Minutes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 February, 2007</span></h3><p>Variable and function prefixes:</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/02/pluggable-authentication-modules-pam/"><h3>Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 February, 2007</span></h3><p>PAM is a very flexible tool for authentication. I use it with Apache for realm-based authentication via MySQL with the help of pam_mysql…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/bad-behaviour/"><h3>Bad Behaviour<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Trying out the Bad Behaviour plugin from ioerror: http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/ This works well, but I did run into one problem wp…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/duplicity-error/"><h3>Duplicity Error<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 January, 2007</span></h3><p>This results in: which isn't cool.</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/ethtool-and-route/"><h3>ethtool and route<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Couple of quick notes on networking: Ethtool is the best tool in my opinion for editing network hardware settings. For example: That will…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/tech-laggards/"><h3>Tech Laggards<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->31 January, 2007</span></h3><p>With all the amazing advancements going on in technology, there are a few laggards that bug me, namely broadband and filesystems. In this…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/review-of-tektonic/"><h3>Review of Tektonic<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->30 January, 2007</span></h3><p>I registered for Tektonic on Saturday and received my access info on Monday, which is a surprisingly long delay. They must set these up…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/s3-duplicity-with-debian/"><h3>Setting up Duplicity for use with Amazon s S3 on Debian GNU Linux to backup on Dreamhost<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 January, 2007</span></h3><p>To review the last post of backing up to dreamhost and s3 with duplicity, here is clearer summary of what is necessary to get duplicity…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/sync-services/"><h3>Sync Services duplicity unison rdiff backup and rsync<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->29 January, 2007</span></h3><p>If you are like me and use computers all the time, you like the idea of synchronization. There are many great tools to accomplish this: I…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/duplicity-to-dreamhost-and-amazon-s3/"><h3>Duplicity to dreamhost and Amazon S3<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->28 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Howto use duplicity to back to dreamhost.com accounts and Amazon S3: Dreamhost has some amazing offerings, one of which is a huge amount of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/what-is-going-on-here/"><h3>What is going on here<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->27 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Found this in my logs, and my ip address is definitely not It looks like this is a malfunctioning bad bot trying to build up referral links…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/fpdf-landscape/"><h3>FPDF Landscape<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 January, 2007</span></h3><p>I need to make FPDF output a landscape PDF instead of a portrait PDF. I also use fpdi, so I was a little unsure of how to proceed. I found…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/macintosh-os-x-central/"><h3>Macintosh OS X Central<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->26 January, 2007</span></h3><p>I registered a domain name recently: docunext.com, and just heard from a previous owner of it. Its cool to hear from people that way. I plan…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/a-new-site-in-google/"><h3>A new site in Google<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->23 January, 2007</span></h3><p>On the 15th of January, 2007, the domain name docunext.com was registered. For a day or two shortly thereafter, the domain's single page of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/failover-route-setup/"><h3>Failover Route Setup<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Redundant Internet Connections? We were thinking of setting up two internet connections at our office so that if one went down, the other…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/macintosh-notes/"><h3>Macintosh Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 January, 2007</span></h3><p>http://www.wasuvi.com/?page_id=2368 http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-57627.html http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/my-msn-change-content/"><h3>My MSN Change Content<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 January, 2007</span></h3><p>No matter what I do, I cannot for the life of me to get My MSN to index any of my Wordpress blog feeds, or any blog feeds for that matter…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/pptp-notes/"><h3>PPTP Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Add the following modules to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_async ppp_generic ppp_synctty ppp_async slhc arc4 md…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/snort-notes/"><h3>Snort Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 January, 2007</span></h3><p>too look in a database than a very large flat file. Due to the amount of internet threats these days, your logs can fill up very fast. ACID…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/ssi-and-xslt-explanation/"><h3>SSI and XSLT Explanation<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->22 January, 2007</span></h3><p>I just sent this explanation to a colleague to explain XSL and SSI: You know how the html files on the "www" server are all one piece…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/adobe-illustrator-notes/"><h3>Adobe Illustrator Notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 January, 2007</span></h3><p>This product is nice but needs some help. I'm interested to hear what people are saying about Quark. It appears that I'm not using it for…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/review-of-dot5hosting/"><h3>Review of dot5hosting<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 January, 2007</span></h3><p>dot5hosting accepted my order without my explicit request. To be more specific, their website is setup such that if you press return with a…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/review-of-netfirms/"><h3>Review of Netfirms<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Netfirms ran a promotion I could not say no to: 2 domains and a year of hosting for $10! January 19, 2007
Netfirms hosted domain is non…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/vaporsec-notes-for-posterity/"><h3>VaporSec Notes for Posterity<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Found these wicked old notes about Vaporsec: So far I have gotten the two computers to connect successfully when Rover was directly on the…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/web-hosting-administration-control-panels/"><h3>Web Hosting Administration Control Panels<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->21 January, 2007</span></h3><p>cPanel, Direct Admin, Dreamhost's Panel.cgi, and more. Lots to choose from, but which one is best? Apple even has its own server admin, too…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/review-of-office-live/"><h3>Review of Office Live<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->18 January, 2007</span></h3><p>So far, I really can't stand Office Live. Maybe its because I'm mostly a linux and Mac guy, but their service irks me. Toolbar
For example…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/review-of-charger-technologies-of-india/"><h3>Review of Charger Technologies of India<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->17 January, 2007</span></h3><p>I signed up with Charger Technologies on January 16th, 2007 at approximately 1PM, EST. I paid $5 via PayPal, using a Discover Credit card…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/buying-existing-websites/"><h3>Buying Existing Websites<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 January, 2007</span></h3><p>If you are thinking about buying an existing website like I am, there are many factors to consider. Sitepoint, which hosts an existing sites…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/password-thoughts/"><h3>Password Thoughts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->16 January, 2007</span></h3><p>When choosing a password, pick a good one. You might think using your middle name, or the name of a pet, is a good idea, but in reality, its…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/how-to-open-a-dell-computer-case/"><h3>How to open a Dell computer case<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 January, 2007</span></h3><p>To open one of the common dark and light gray Dell computer cases, there are two buttons that need to be pushed. There is one on the top…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/new-computer/"><h3>New Computer<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->15 January, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm building a new computer, should be really nice! Here's a quick snapshot: It has an AMD processor, Seagate hard drive, ATI graphics card…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/cooling-fan-burnt-out/"><h3>Cooling fan burnt out<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->14 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Sorry if you tried to access docunext.com, or any of the other quality content hosted on our server frankling over the last approximate 1…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/mo-domains-mo-data/"><h3>Mo domains mo data<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->11 January, 2007</span></h3><p>Ah yes, data management. Great topic to bring up on a first data, I mean date. Just kidding. Hehehe. Right - I am getting many more domain…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/ming-shape-and-bitmap-image/"><h3>Ming Shape and Bitmap Image<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->10 January, 2007</span></h3><p></p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/webhosting-review/"><h3>Webhosting Review<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->08 January, 2007</span></h3><p>I'm reviewing these webhosts: AwardSpace Free, actually seems decent. Free webhosting accounts are limited to two domains. They are also…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/old-docunext-concepts/"><h3>Old Docunext Concepts<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 January, 2007</span></h3><p>The Development Process The developer must first of all model the database. The capabilities of the first version of this tool are…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/wordpress-and-bbpress-notes/"><h3>Wordpress and bbpress notes<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->06 January, 2007</span></h3><p>The Informed Banking website uses Wordpress for its bank blog and bbpress for its bank forums. I'm very impressed with these pieces of…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/forum-software/"><h3>Forum Software<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->05 January, 2007</span></h3><p>To complete the loop of blog-wiki-forum, I'm checking out various forum software. I've installed both bbPress and phpbb2 for Informed…</p></a></div><div><a style="text-decoration:none;color:inherit" href="/2007/2007/01/verizon-550-you-are-not-allowed-to-send-mail/"><h3>Verizon 550 You are not allowed to send mail<!-- --> <span style="color:#bbb">— <!-- -->01 January, 2007</span></h3><p>One of my clients recently reported difficulty sending mail to Verizon.net email addresses. 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