I have been asked to begin making a gradual move into the .net languages, as there was a recent organizational change where my manager no longer works with Perl as much as he used to and wants to take me along with him to make sure his life is easy. But making the migration into [...]
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Decreasing the slope of the learning curve, one equation or program at a time.
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17 Dec 09
Grinding My Gears – Stored Passwords
Personally, I don’t think that software needs to be so god damned difficult to make. I mean, if you follow the “standards and practices” that you see standardized and practiced by the broad majority of today’s websites you could come to no other conclusion.
Three days ago i signed up on a website, one that I [...]
9 Dec 09
Going the way of Beta-Max
During the 1980’s a battle raged between two video storage formats. One, pushed by Sony, had some severe limitations on its use including a rather arbitrary (and politically motivated to be sure) line drawn to keep adult material off of it. This format is widely known as Beta-Max and has since disappeared from the marketplace.
We [...]
8 Dec 09
Setup VSFTPD on Ubuntu Server in 8 minutes
Install VSFTPD then open up the configuration file.
bob_gneu@GneuServ:~$ sudo apt-get install vsftpd
bob_gneu@GneuServ:~$ sudo vim /etc/vsftpd.conf
Update the following variables…
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enabled=YES
Save it out.
Create, chown and add a user to that group with the www directory as the home directory.
bob_gneu@GneuServ:~$ sudo groupadd ftp-users
bob_gneu@GneuServ:~$ sudo chown -R root:ftp-users /var/www
bob_gneu@GneuServ:~$ sudo useradd -g ftp-users -d /var/www gneuftp
bob_gneu@GneuServ:~$ sudo passwd gneuftp
Restart the [...]
21 Oct 09
Optimize your Tables!
One thing that seems to always irritate me when im trying to organize my backups together is how the file sizes bloat over time. You can, and probably should look into optimizing your tables but for those of you who dont have the time or the will power to care to do it in any [...]
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