To anticipate and prevent
So I finally got apache running on one of our production servers for internal backup usage. I’ve found that it there is almost nothing GNU/GPL out there that does compression on the fly. So on the server side is apache with mod_deflate on a “random” port w/ a virtual directory of the database backups I…
I have a box in my “testing network” at the office that is running debian testing (is that still considered sarge? or sid? dunno). It was running perfectly fine (w/ X windows) until recently. I was asked to retrive some data off a harddrive (ntfs) so I shoved it in this box — and thats…
So I’ve gotten into a kick recently w/ mod_rewrite. It really is very awesome if you’ve never used it. Its extremly handy and not that difficult to use. I also found this handy cheat sheet. I’ve set up two mod_rewrites recenetly. One is forcing all traffic from Snowflakey.com (I’d link but you’d just end up…
Dont get me wrong — I LOVE Debian testing. I run several servers on Debian testing because I find it is so very stable and so very wonderful. I started my linux’ing in the days of Red Hat 6.0. I never had a graphical OS in 6.0 because it was just so damned hard to…
Got my NV drivers license & got me a Walter P22. The gun thing took a bit longer than I expected due to some complications with the background checks & laws I was not familar with (aka — If you want to buy a handgun you must have something listing your physical address — Unlike…
So I’m setting up a testing network in side the office network. The front end is a machine running debian. Its running shorewall, squid, bind9, dhcpd, pptpd, etc (you get the idea). The test net is routed through the debian machine — so I can bring on new random machines and make sure they dont…