Everyone loves web applications that use Apache, PHP and MySQL, and everyone loves having their very own web servere that runs them. The problem is, how do you do it? If your’re like me, you don’t do it enough to remember, so here are some quick directions to get you started.
First we must download the [...]
Since I don’t create certs all that often, I’ve always been frusterated by having to search out the commands every time I have to make one. Frequently I forget about removing tripple DES from the server.key file, and end up with a cert that makes me enter a psss phraze every time I start up [...]
Since George W. Bush took office his secrecy with respect to the media has been unprecedented. He rarely holds press conferences, and on the rare occasions when he does, his answers are constantly obfuscated by double-speak and misdirection. Thus it is for good reason that the blogosphere and independent media became suspicious when little known [...]
The quotes below are taken from a New York TImes article from Feb 19, 2005. Doug Wead is a personal friend of George Bush. During the course of writing a book about then future president he secretly recorded some private conversations.
NOTE: We are currently trying to acquire the entire transcripts of these tapes, as well [...]
It seems that we have a lot of koi keepers who need, for one reason or another to bring some of their fish in during winter months. Sometimes they find a sick fish in their pond that needs treatment, or sometimes they just want want to keep some of their best fish in for the [...]
Last Sunday, DFA, and the Howard Bean Cafe in Montpelier, VT organized a victory celebration for Howard Dean’s election to the Chair of the Democratic National Committee. The local news media were there, along with dozens of DFA Members and Howard Dean supporters. Free coffee, cake, and a wonderful time was had by all
The overall [...]
Yeserday, the National Security Archive posted the widely-debated, but previously unavailable, January 25, 2001, memo from counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke to national security advisor Condoleezza Rice.
The document was central to debates in the 9/11 hearings over the Bush administration’s policies and actions on terrorism before September 11, 2001. Clarke’s memo requests an immediate meeting of [...]
On February 4, Donnie Fowler, the last viable opposition to Howard Dean, exited the race for DNC chair, and endorced Dean with the following words:
“The Republicans have adopted a cynical strategy in the last few years when it comes to pushing their radical agenda. First, they scare us - WMDs! Social security crisis! Then they [...]
After doing a number of system upgrades over the weekend, I became quickly frustrated by the fact that the standard settings in the /etc/system file, normally used to lock the Ethernet interface to 100 / Full Duplex don’t seem to work if your server is using a "ce" or "bge" Ethernet card.
Normally, the settings in [...]
Shockwaves were sent thought the Internet blogging community today when, for the first time in months, owner of maisonbisson.com and long time Blogger Casey Bisson, (The Bison) failed to post anything new to his website. Many of his friends and colleagues have expressed worries that he may have been hurt or fallen ill, [...]
Things have started spiraling downward for Donnie Fowler’s chances at the DNC chair, since the Association of State Democratic Chairs voted overwhelmingly against him to support democratic rock star Howard Dean.
Donnie Fowler Jr., a party strategist and son of former national chairman Don Fowler, did enjoy a brief glint of hope Monday, when the 17 [...]
By Gov. Howard Dean, M.D.
As I have traveled across our country, I have talked to thousands of people who are working for change in their own communities about the power of politics to make a difference in their own lives and in the lives of others. Every group I have spoken to, I encouraged [...]
For one reason or another, many network switches don’t like to negotiate properly with the ethernet cards in Sun servers. This can result in a lot of headaches, and sometimes the problem is difficult to diagnose. Usually the autonegotiation software within the switch can tell that the network card on the server is able to [...]
