Archive for August, 2004
Crazy thunder and lightning last night. It woke us up several times, shaking the house. There were two houses that caught fire in town becauseof the lightning. Scary.
Trying to talk Mike into doing his distcc presentation at the meeting tomorrow, I got to playing with it again. Here's the distcc ...
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School began yesterday as Caleb has already mentioned. It might have been the longest day of my life. Then again, I probably say that every year.
Five explanations of my discipline plan, classroom rules, grading procedures, supplies, etc., etc. If that wasn't bad enough, today was five more exciting readings of ...
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The Olympic events are a little hard for me to follow. Here's why:
If the event is meaningful, I already know the outcome. The news on the internet or TV often breaks the news as it happens, leaving NBC to show itseveral hours later.
If you do not see the event ...
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One of my favorite TV shows is Pardon the Interruption on ESPN. Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon host PTI weekday afternoons. It's a loud back and forth about sports that real sports people can identify with. Wilbon is covering the Olympics in Athens. He writes this about the men's loss ...
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I'm starting a new job in two weeks. I'll write more about that as it gets closer. I wasn't looking for another job this one just came to me. I'm excited about it but at the same time I have it pretty good at my current job and the people ...
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Another geek post.
Last night Chad asked me for some help with his Apache hosting setup on his server. He wants the clients to have FTP access to edit their "html directory" (or htdocs in Apache speak) only.
Here is a quick little guide that I wrote.
Chrooting Apache Users with VSFTPD
1) Create ...
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San Francisco:
The city was so amazing. It was extremely clean for a large urban area. I think this is where having a state of tree hugging hippies really pays off. There were far fewer homeless people than I expected and almost no freaks. As I suggested earlier, maybe they were ...
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