Quoth frames these little reality checks so nicely. I will leave it in the form she used:

Your chances of dying of SARS in the States are 1 in ...oh wait, none have died in the states....not too shabby huh?

Your chances of dying in an automobile accident in the states are approximately 1 in 6400 every year. Those aren't the odds in your life time, those are your odds each year.

Some of you may know that I have a little terrier cross named Emma. Emma is the cutest little bundle of cute that ever cuted a... !!SLAP!!

Recently the farmer next door has been spraying manure to fertilize their field. Emma has run around in that a couple of times, and it reeks. I thought that that was the worst possible thing in the world that she could do.

Today I received a message from Quoth about my dog's "whacky hijinks" for the day:

Once upon a time a boy had a tape backup, and it was good.

Then the backup failed, and it was bad. This cycle repeated itself many times, and this was also bad.

Then the boy bought a 200gig USB2.0 Hard Drive, and this was good, after it was bad for a while.
This is the story of his quest...

I have finally taken the plunge and converted my system to Movable Type so as to make the maintenance chores a little easier.

<reference="simpsons">Month and a half with no update makes blog something something.</reference>

In unrelated news, later on I will post a quick and effective guide to hot-swappable USB2.0 large size hard drives under Linux. Just got it dialed, and it KICKS ASS!

Just a quick note. We have changed the IP address of the server today. All DNS should be OK, but let me know if you find any problems.

I was pleased to discover that my site was of help to somebody having trouble with the
PHP/Apache/PHPBB bug that I mentioned earlier...

A google search turned up your Space Meat page about apache 2 and php 4.

I've been fighting that problem for a week. Yeah for fixed! Thank you
for posting that complexity. Hope apache and php learn to play nice in
the future!



Peace,

Lynn Dobbs

Ngender Consulting Group

Of course what really gets me is the fact that my site shows up before
any other fixes on
google
even though there are
better sources available with
more comprehensive searches.

In the absence of anything smarter to say, here is whay I have for the day:

• OpenSourceCMS has a comprehensive list of
  open source CMS solutions. Wish I had found this site before writing 1/3 of my EMMA system.
  Needless to say, I am dropping the final 2/3 and am going to just adapt/commit some of my
  ideas to at least ONE of these projects. I love open source.
• 404 Weapons Not Found
• I love my new Pic Micro C Compiler from CCS. Just
  saved me DAYS of work on my new top secret Pacbrake project.

In case any of you were wondering, there are still some issues with the forum. I had to make the filesystem automatically touch all of the php files in order to prevent Apache from continuing to munge the cache-expiry times of the scripts that generate the forums. I also had to change some other people's scripts in order to get them working with register_globals turned off (you know who you are). Please let me know if you encounter any other problems. Check the archives for more details.

Found some new bugs in RedHat Linux 8.0 today, with a couple of workarounds. Here is the
deal. Let us suppose that you install RedHat 8.0 and have some PHP scripts you are running...
"BAD" idea.
Stick with RedHat 7.3. The problem is that 8.0 comes with Apache 2, which does
not play nice with PHP yet. It is in fact still considered beta. The first bug I have run
into is that cache control is whacky, exacerbated by what is reportedly an inconsistency
in the way IE caches pages. My biggest problem was with PhpBB, since the codebase is fairly
large. Here is the solution as brought to me by the
nice people

on the phpBB support board...