Drupal, getid3 and Debian

GetID3 is a php library that reads MP3 files and extract information about the artist, song, etc.

Facebook's idea of privacy

Facebook retreated from it’s Beacon program thanks to the campaign organized by MoveOn.

Failure to mount root partition after major lenny dist-upgrade

I’ve been very busy the last two months working on the US Social Forum.

First public drupal module: Registrar

Some of the folks working on the Georgia Progressive Summit (who we worked with on the USSF asked if they could use the code we developed for the registration at the USSF.

Freda Rosen

I have spent the last week celebrating the life of Freda Rosen, a revolutionary who passed away Tuesday morning July 17.

Get lucky on Friday the 13th with the Rude Mechanical Orchestra!

The RMO contributes to the left on a near weekly basis, playing benefits, demonstrations and rallies: now we need to support them!

Getting burned by dhclient

A member switched from a dynamic IP address to a static IP address yesterday - very exciting!

Hacking Auth on MediaWiki

For some explanation of how to hack your own auth system into MediaWiki, a couple good resources are:

How do you recover a root password on a debian system

I know some people might think this is not the information that should be publicly published - but it is important to know and, if we are not encrypting our filesystems, we should acknowledge that if someone has physical access to your machine, then it can belong to them.

HTML Email

I’ve never been a big fan of HTML email, however, we have received so many requests about how to do it that I’ve been re-considering.