I decided to move my shared hosting from 1&1 to DreamHost. I had some poor experiences with 1&1: remapping domains to subdirectories of my $HOME didn’t work at first excessively stringent RLimitCPU meant that certain operations, like trying to migrate from Gallery 1.x to 2.x would fail and time out trying to use 1&1′s built-in [...]
Devlin’s rebuilding its intranet and moving away from the old Lotus Domino-based directory service. One of the developers on the intranet project asked me if he could authenticate employees against Active Directory instead. He’ll be using the MODx CMS, and would like to authenticate using mod_auth_ldap. We’ve done this before to authenticate Subversion SCM users, [...]
I’ve been preparing an old IBM PC 300PL for my parents to replace their generic clone that died (RIP the machine formerly known as exodus.dreaming.org). They’re familiar with Windows, so I installed Windows 2000 Professional, ran Windows Update to download all the latest patches, and installed ClamWin as a virus scanner, and ZoneAlarm as a [...]
This evening I went to DemoCampToronto #7, a project of BarCamp Toronto. As BarCamp’s website says, BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. DemoCamp consists of a set of presentations totally [...]
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