Upgraded the tedroche.com web server from Red Hat 8 to Fedora Core 2 using the yum updater, following the instructions here. Installed the vsFTPd ftp server so that I could move updates more quickly to the server. Reviewing security issues, found this page, which had some good stuff on it. In fact, the entire YoLinux.com seems rich with hundreds of links (page down on the home page) and dozens of tutorials. Reconfigured and updated WebMin, including adding in a 3rd party module for vsftpd. Man, the richness of material available on the web is amazing!
Archive | 2004
Can your app read email?
As an adjunct to JWZâs Law of Computer Envelopment (“every program
attempts to expand until it can read mail”), I declare that every
aggregator attempts to expand until it can read EBCDIC.
— Dive Into Mark’s blog entry on release of Universal Feed Parser 3.2
Realities of war
Modesty with cause. Britt Blaser: That is why combat veterans don’t talk much about their experiences. Link via The Doc Searls Weblog
FoxWiki offers its own RSS feed
FoxWikiNews. The FoxProWiki now offers a syndication channel. 
[FoxProWiki]
Excellent! My job here is done.
Mac OS X Tiger Slide Show
Mac OS X Tiger Slide Show. OSNews points to some great screenshots on eWeek.
Microsoft posts work-around for IE flaw…
Microsoft posts work-around for IE flaw. Pushes patch that turns off insecure ActiveX component, while continuing to investigate a more comprehensive fix. [CNET News.com]
Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE
Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE reports Slashdot. Hilarity ensues. Didn’t anyone tell them the Justice Department tried that years ago, and it didn’t work?
Joel Spolsky: Things You Should Never Do, Part I
A summer re-run for you: Joel on Software from June of 2000:
There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over.
Good reading. A great deal of my job is working with clients and
pre-existing code bases. From the many folks I’ve worked with, I’ve
learned that my tolerance level for Other People’s Code (OPC) is much
higher than most. They shipped it, it works, well, mostly, it
paid for the ir kids orthodonture, and clients are using it to make
money. There’s a lot of good in there.
No iMacs until September
Apple says no iMacs until September.
With inventories of flat panel iMacs dwindling, Apple has announced
that there will be no more iMacs until September. Details on the new
iMacs remain a mystery. [Ars Technica]
If you haven’t see Steve Jobs’ keynote from the recent World Wide
Developer Conference, you can catch it (in streaming QuickTime, natch) here.
For those of you without an hour and a half to kill, here’s the
highlights: OS X Next is “Tiger” shipping 1H 2004, “years ahead of
Longhorn” stated at least five times, some cool little widgets,
excellent GPU integration for video and image effects native to the OS,
many, many enhancements and improvements. iPods got a special interface
with new BMWs (bleh) and Coopers (cool).. Latest cinema display: 30″,
4.1 megapixels. Woah.
Oh, and Safari (the Apple browser) ships with RSS know-how built in. Looks promising.
More on ListGarden
A pretty slick little package, ListGarden
is. A single downloadable file for Windows, it unpacks the Perl runtime
DLL when run and cleans up after itself. It runs on a local machine or
installed on a web server and presents a simple and easy-to-follow web
interface to generate RSS and an HTML page to view the RSS. This looks
like a great application for folks who just want to post a change long
on their home page or web project site. So far, I’ve installed it
locally and ran it through its paces. Next comes a web install, when
free time next pops up.