September 2010
6 posts
There’s a great post at Tomorrow Museum declaring The End of Sexism. It’s a bit of a manifesto, actually, the point being that there are no excuses, other than outright stupidity, for sexist behavior.
I agree and disagree at the same time. Based on reactions to valid claims of sexism in technology (I’m looking at you, IT) and politics, I think that a disturbing number of people...
Beyond Fusion
If the the repulsive force of squabbling bureaucrats could be overcome using conference-room confinement, the resulting release of energy would power the world forever.
— Slashot post by sakdoctor
The Perfect Blogging, Tweeting, Broadcasting...
Ideally, you would have one site, that you own and control, and you would post everything to that site. Then you would make decisions about how to republish those posts (or protect them):
Short posts get re-posted to Twitter and/or Facebook
Photos get re-posted to Flickr
Videos get re-posted to YouTube
Copyrighted media gets protected with a password so you can share it with friends and family...
EC2 on EBS: Taming the Amazon
I upgraded my old Debian 4 AMI to Debian 5 yesterday, and switched it from S3 storage to the more permanent (and more easily clone-able!) EBS.
With EBS-backed instances, we can finally have a boot drive that doesn’t go away if the instance gets hosed! There is dancing in my street.
Create a bootable EBS AMI from a running instance is more pro, but Creating an Amazon EC2 EBS AMI from a...
Beware of the default Apache 2 config for PHP
Ilia Alshanetsky points out that AddHandler is the wrong directive to use for executable file types like PHP, because Apache could execute the file bad.php.jpeg (I haven’t tested this yet, but plan to).
The safer directive is apparently AddType:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps