http://incoherentbabble.com Tech News and Rambling from a Surly Little Bastard... Sat, 17 May 2008 08:28:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a whole week of being sick and generally not feeling well enough to work on anything, I've finally gotten back to hacking on some Habari code. I've been up until about 5am the last two mornings working on a variety of things. Yesterday included a plugin directory plugin that hopefully ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/05/17/lots-of-habari-hacking/ I imagine many people have been confused with the differences between all the myriad open source licenses available. I did a quick Google, and found a very nice basic table listing some of the more popular licenses you might encounter and their key points. Check out the comparison here, thanks to ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/04/28/open-source-license-comparison/ I had the opportunity to do some quick WordPress plugin hacking tonight ((I added an additional search option to the Search Everything plugin, enabling it to return all posts in a matching category.)) for Jim Whimpey. As a "payment" of sorts, he gave me a coupon code for the site ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/04/21/new-kick-ass-wallpapers/ In the last couple of hours, I've gotten over 4,000 bounced emails where someone is apparently spamming the shit out of the internet with an @doesnthaveone.com email address that doesn't exist. Since doesnthaveone.com redirects here, I thought I would post a message for anyone who may angrily type in the URL... ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/31/im-not-spamming-you-i-swear/ Sorry if I SPAM anyone's reader with updated posts. I wanted to run back through the last couple and mark them as accepting trackbacks in MarsEdit. Now, to see if there's an option in MarsEdit to always allow trackbacks by default... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/24/sorry-for-the-updates/ I've spent the past two days or so managing my email migration from DreamHost to Google Apps for Domains. Over the weekend, DreamHost had some scheduled maintenance. Not only were their main page, panel, and all webmail down for an extended period, but they were moving the cluster I'm hosted on... ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/24/mail-migrations-the-final-piece/ I was stuck re-compiling Apache today to enable support for mod_proxy so I could pass requests through our existing webserver seamlessly to our new PHP5-sporting webserver. Of course I decided to make some other "optimizations" along the way with our Apache configuration, so I ended up breaking everything. Recompiling Apache threaded ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/10/how-the-hell-did-i-compile-that-again/ If you're reading this, you've made the transition to the slice-based Babble. Hurray, rejoice, etc. http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/08/welcome-to-the-slice-2/ I threw together some screenshots and comments on Flickr while I was quickly giving IE 8 a run through tonight, if anyone's interested. IE 8 Beta 1 gallery http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/05/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-screenshots/ http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/05/can-you-spot-the-downtime/ I've had a slice at SliceHost for longer than I care to admit by now ((About 6 months, but don't tell anyone.)), I just hadn't quite gotten around to ever testing and configuring it the way I wanted to. Well, I finally got around to wiping out whatever I'd been playing ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/04/testing-the-slice/ For some reason I got off on a "Research Australia" kick tonight. I've always found it interesting that most of Australia's inhabitants live in cities on the eastern coast, so I'm mainly focusing my research on the cities of the central and western areas of Australia. Alice Springs, almost exactly in ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/01/australian-cities-research/ Just discovered that Twitter has "scheduled" a database upgrade for, well, right now. I can't tweet what I'm doing, but maybe it'll at least help Twitter stop sucking so much. http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/03/01/twitters-down/ I'm considering snagging a cheap refurbished Dell from HCDI Trading to use as an IPCop or m0n0wall firewall / router. Both Belkin and Linksys have gotten on my ho-hum list for consumer grade routers recently with some poor performance overall. Two different Linksys WRT54G models (the early ones, pre-WRT54G-L branch-off) seem ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/02/26/considering-router-changes/ Hurray! Vista SP1 is now available to TechNet Plus subscribers, just like it should have been all along. If you're looking to download, be sure to read the notes about it only being available under Top Downloads for the time being. The original article I read said it was also now available ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/02/15/vista-sp1-now-availble-on-technet/ Vista SP1 was RTM earlier this month, and they announced a laid-back release schedule. Their plans for slowly rolling it out to end users sound great, but I have to wonder why Microsoft doesn't plan on releasing SP1 to IT Pros through TechNet until it's publicly available for users to download. This ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/02/11/whats-with-the-vista-sp1-delay/ I'm at a bit of a loss as to what title I should have put on my business cards at work (yes, at the job I want to leave). It seems that no matter what title I come up with, I feel I'm selling myself short in some area or ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/02/11/what-would-you-say-you-do-here/ In the past on this blog, I've supported Ron Paul for President and Chris Dodd for fighting the FISA immunity bill. Throughout both, I've always realized that there was something uplifting and inspiring about Barack Obama, but have been unable to put my finger on it. Thanks to Nick Harris of ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/02/09/yes-we-can/ Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes. - Aaron McGruder I think too many people lack a proper understanding of the kind of totally-focused attention that can be devoted to a task in the calm of night. Then again if everyone ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/02/07/words-to-live-by/ It appears somehow the uploads directory I had on my Dreamhost account got wiped out. Nothing important there... except my Garland theme release. Since several people have been asking me about it lately, I thought it was time to wrap up a fresh release. If you're looking for the Garland theme ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/02/03/fresh-garland-release/ Just in case anyone else is wondering how to send an SMS text message to their AT&T wireless phone via email, the address apparently has changed through their recent acquisitions. Googling around only revealed the prior (non-working) domains, so I had to resort to the AT&T support page. Horribly worded and ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/01/26/att-txt-via-email-address/ This only makes me slightly less happy than my last post! http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/01/08/rockstar-games-on-steam/ *gasp* What could it be? Multi-Pass, baby! Did I miss some announcement? http://incoherentbabble.com/2008/01/08/did-i-miss-something/ Ed Bott published fresh browser stats this morning, and I thought I would comment on some aspects... The point that Ed makes about the lack of increase in Firefox's market share is disappointing, but are we really surprised? I've said for quite some time that Firefox is geared towards the tech ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/12/31/year-end-browser-stats/ I upgraded Zend Core for Oracle on our soon-to-be production webserver at work tonight so it was running the latest build of PHP 5.2, and while I was at it I decided to make sure all its other packages were current. It was quite sad, but the kernel was over a ... http://incoherentbabble.com/2007/12/27/kernel-madness/