MySQL bin log: Your friend

A big thanks to the Debian MySQL server maintainers for enabling bin logging by default.

Nagios2 and complex configurations...

I have a love/hate relationship with Nagios. On the one hand, I love how much power there is in the object oriented approach to the configuration files.

Naming your network connections

Having your network connections called eth0 and eth1 is fine if you are a machine.

New blog

I’ll be continuing to post both general interest and tech-related blogs here.

New Drupal Tutorial

Beginning drupalists will be interested in our new Drupal tutorial, written by Amanda B and available here.

Next Generation Email list software

Mailman and Sympa are two very impressive free email list programs.

Nodaddy: the Internet does have a hierarchical and centralized aspect

At our radical techie brunch last weekend, I heard about NoDaddy, a site documenting how someone’s entire domain name was pulled from the Internet by GoDaddy

One step forward, two steps back

I was excited when a colleague forwarded to me an email about a new journal called Journal of Information Technology in Social Change.

OpenID and Trac

With OpenID installed, I wanted to get the OpenID trac module working.

Organizing mass forums

It’s been a few months since the US Social Forum - a few months that I’ve spent reflecting on how things went and what I would like to see happen differently in the future.