Apache on Windows: Serving Files From the Network
Recently I had a problem: Without going into the “whys” here, I found myself on a Windows XP system needed to parse and serve PHP files in Apache from a network share. Sounds easy enough, right? Unfortunately, the obvious answer didn’t work, and hours of Googling turned up countless suggestions, most of which didn’t work at all. I even found some very detailed step-by-step instructions that turned out to be based upon a premise that doesn’t work at all.
The Day the World Ended
The 49th at 50
Ever been curious about the history of the Union’s largest state? A local radio station has produced a 50-part series of short spots covering the highlights of our 50-year history as a state to celebrate the bicentennial. It’s a good listen, and they’ve made it available as a podcast.
Security Through Obscurity in the News
Shortly after my previous post regarding security through obscurity, I spotted an article on ZDNet detailing a new vulnerability affecting Cisco wireless routers. If not for the reference to “skyjacking” in the title, I would have stopped reading halfway through the article and dismissed the whole thing as nothing more than a spot of sunshine lighting up a “vulnerability” in a network’s obscurity.
Take Note: Cryptic Error Messages Help No One
I’m a techie. A nerd, if you prefer. When my computers break, I like to fix them. I will spend more hours than most people would consider sane Googling for answers to my current woes rather than take my computer to someone who gets paid to do the same thing (and likely already has, and thus can fix my problem in a fraction of the time).
Security Through Obscurity - Over-demonized?
Anyone who has spent any real time dealing with computer systems’ security has heard the phrase, “Security through obscurity is no security at all.” While I won’t make false claims that I’m an expert in the field of computer security, today I will apply common-sense and some basic best practices and explain when this axiom is, in fact, false.
RAID 10 with mdadm
If I had to pick one fault of Linux, it would be that for almost everything, the Linux user is inundated with hundreds of possible solutions. This is both a blessing and a curse - for the veterans, it means that we can pick the tool that most matches how we prefer to operate; for the uninitiated, it means that we’re so overwhelmed with options it’s hard to know where to begin.
New blog! (...yes, again...)
So, here I am again, with yet another new blog. This time, though, I’ve finally broken down and installed a ready-made one instead of trying (yet again) to motivate myself to actually develop one from scratch. Which has always been a great learning experience, but they never become feature-complete and always seem to suffer from various this-and-thats that I just don’t have the time nor motivation to repair.
Yummy nummy!!
I am sooooooo wanting to try this one! It’s basically a coronary wrapped around a heart attack and all wrapped tightly within a triple bypass. What else could it be?
Auto-start fail: The Update
Turns out the remote died. I went back to Auto Trim Design yesterday morning and they gave me a new remote. Works great now! Apparently mine was the second dead remote they’d seen in two years dealing with this model.