There’s been a lot of buzz over the past few years about DRM, file sharing, “intellectual property theft”, etc. A lot of that has been the two extreme sides - the media industry and their “have it our way” attitude, and the extremists who feel that everything digital should be …
more ...Some of my servers that are only for internal/personal use have SSL certs with a mismatched hostname. The cert for my mail server is issued for the CNAME used for my mail server, not the actual hostname. Of course, this means that Thunderbird gives me some annoying errors because …
more ...At $WORK, the subnet we use for some of our workstations and test boxes was only recently setup with DHCP. Previously, we’d used IP-by-Whiteboard in the office. As a result, most of the recent machines use DHCP, but there are a few older ones still around using static …
more ...Recently I was doing some work on a few PHP scripts, and came by a rather annoying error while trying to commit to subversion:
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Working copy '/srv/www/htdocs/newcall/stats/generated' is missing or not locked
The problem was a directory, “generated”. This …
more ...Interesting Links for Tuesday, January 26th 2010
Being a volunteer EMT, and at times an outdoorsy-type person, I occasionally get emails from friends about disaster-related topics. Especially in the post-9/11 days. Recently, I got an email asking me if I’d seen the Department of Homeland Security’s disaster preparedness site, ready.gov. I’d heard …
more ...So, I updated my Droid to Android 2.0.1 today. I’ll be honest that it didn’t work the way I’d hoped. When I woke up this morning (December 10th 2009) I had an alert dialog on screen telling me that an update was ready. It …
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