And now munson gets Etch

Learning from my peewee experience… After editing /etc/apt/sources.list I started with:

Apache and ldap authentication

The project at hand: Setup an LDAP directory that will work with Apache2 using basic auth.

AWAAM Responds

MFPL member Arab Women Active in Arts and Media are now speaking out to address reports about a t-shirt they produced bearing the slogan, “Intifada NYC,” displayed at an Arab heritage festival last month.

Backupninja running out of disk space

Backupninja starting giving me errors along the lines of: [Errno 28] No space left on device Fatal Error: Lost connection \ to the remote system Yet, df on that server showed plenty of room:

Coalition of Immokalee Workers: major mobilization in Chicago April 13 - 14

May First/People Link member [CIW](http://ciw-online.org) needs your help publicizing their major moblization in Chicago on April 13 and 14!

Deep thoughts about timestamps and time zones

I’ve been struggling with Drupal’s timezone/daylight savings handling (see Drupal discussion).

Dell 1720dn printer PPD file

What a struggle. All I wanted was a working PPD file for the Dell 1720dn.

Drupal and phpmailer

Thanks MFPL member Jesse Mortenson for finding a great set of simple instructions that explain how to get Drupal to use phpmailer (specifically so that Drupal will send email via an alternate smtp server, rather than localhost).

Drupal Anonymous user missing

For the second time in two weeks we’ve had a Drupal problem related to user access and the anonymous user.

Drupal Upgrade Disaster

We upgrade a Drupal site from 4.6 to 4.7 and to my pleasant surprise everything went smoothly… until 2 weeks later the administrator of the site noticed that several blog entries were truncated at seemingly random places.