the art of writing is discovering what you believe
This may be working again soon. I set this up in 1999, and it worked up until just after 9/11. I have been pinging some of my former colleagues to get it working again, and I’m hopeful it won’t be much longer.
UPDATE: Try this: cnn top stories.
More are available here
Continue reading “RSS feed from CNN.com”
Once I worked out how to ignore all the nimda and other MSFT exploit-related requests, I realized I also needed to ignore my own hits. I’m not that interested it seeing how often I post or read comments (could be depressing, actually).
Continue reading “apache logging refined”
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I have a feeling it gets harder now . . . . .
Had some issues with my mrtg monitoring stuff: got a new version from the author.
That struck me as odd: what’s a major ISP like Earthlink doing running a 5-year old version of Perl?
Continue reading “one benefit to self-hosting”
Well, it turned out to be more complicated than I expected. The binary installation I did in Mac OS X failed when some files were moved at Sourceforge. So I had to pull them down by hand: annoying and inconvenient but not a showstopper.
On Darwin — the Aqua-less version — it was worse. Binary installations are not an option, and installing from source was frustrating.
Continue reading “Darwin and Fink”
I am going from 3 OSes down to 2.
Continue reading “OS changes”
feh. These need work, but they are a good starting point. The one to change user password doesn’t work because it doesn’t call openssl correctly. And some special characters can be expanded by your shell and munged as they get encrypted.
I ended up dumping the NetInfo passwd info to an ASCII file, editing it, and then reloading it.
Continue reading “so much for handy scripts”
Mac OS X Server Administration Scripts
I have learned to dislike NetInfo as a system information management interface (ASCII text files are still OK with me). Here are some scripts that management that particular management tool, and allow you to see how it works (I have found RTFM for these to be frustrating).
The FreeBSD Diary — cdrecord – writing your own CDs
Just got my CDr blanks and thought I would see if I could make a CD or coaster.
Continue reading “i love it when things work first time”