According to the latest (June 2009) NetCraft web server survey, the Free/Open Source Apache web server is now hosting 50.46% of all active web sites surveyed (about 38 Million). Microsoft’s IIS server is at 28.05% (or about 29 Million) - a 7.64% decline from IIS’s …

DNS is arguably one of the most important services on the Internet. Without it, every domain name and email address we know would be meaningless. We’d be thrown back into the days of IP addresses without corresponding names. And, given everything that depends on DNS, it’s also one …

I read a very interesting article on Linux-Mag.com today. The gist of it is that Microsoft (as happily announced in a press release) has submitted 20,000 lines of code for inclusion into the kernel. Specifically, the code is comprised of a number of drivers that will enable Linux …

In terms of ongoing projects, I should be updating RackMan sometime soon, and also adding the demo site.

I’ve begun to move DNS for all of my domains in-house, mostly because since everything is behind NAT, it’s a real pain to manage DNS entries in two places (one …

When I did the communications upgrades to my truck, I was originally going to order the antennas and mounts from Tessco, but I found that The Antenna Farm in Montana had the best price on the IC-F5061, and also carried the antennas and mounts. I must first say that …

I’ve done a bit of work on my truck since my last update, and also have some new photos. The work done includes:

• Added 4 strobes head to rear of truck, with strobe box in NEMA enclosure in bed.
• Icom F5061 (VHF 50W) mobile radio in console
• Three antenna …

So it’s been a very busy day. I was up until 5 AM or so working on implementing Puppet at home. I’m building two new boxes - a storage (centralized home directory)/syslog (to MySQL) server and a second web server (possibly also to handle Nagios) - and I decided …

I spent part of the day installing a Netgear ReadyNAS 1100 for backup storage. It’s a cute little 1U storage appliance with 4 SATA disk bays, two Gig copper ports and about every sort of hokey service you could possibly want in something that’s billed as a small …

I’ll be posting more on this in the next few days, but I did a few more upgrades at home, including a Proliant DL380G2 to replace my aged ML370 (G1) storage box (array is failing badly) and a Proliant DL360 G2 as a second web server (and possibly moving …

It always amazes me to see how much “old school” web design practice is still out there. I’m talking about commercial sites (not MySpace pages) that blatantly ignore web standards about both content and user experience. This isn’t just a Linux thing, though some aspect of it certainly …