Writing Good Documentation is Tough
I recently enabled LDAPS authentication for our Drupal site so users can log in with their Active Directory credentials. It wasn’t the most straightforward setup (both from a Drupal standpoint and a networking standpoint, since our website is hosted off-campus) … Continue reading
How the hell did I compile that again?
I was stuck re-compiling Apache today to enable support for mod_proxy so I could pass requests through our existing webserver seamlessly to our new PHP5-sporting webserver. Of course I decided to make some other “optimizations” along the way with our … Continue reading
Kernel Madness
I upgraded Zend Core for Oracle on our soon-to-be production webserver at work tonight so it was running the latest build of PHP 5.2, and while I was at it I decided to make sure all its other packages were … Continue reading
Road Construction
About 8:30 this morning, I was sitting at my desk at home, working on something for work1. I heard this noise outside, and assumed that it was a delivery truck or something stopped at a neighbor’s house. After 10 to … Continue reading



What’s with the Vista SP1 Delay?
Vista SP1 was RTM earlier this month, and they announced a laid-back release schedule. Their plans for slowly rolling it out to end users sound great, but I have to wonder why Microsoft doesn’t plan on releasing SP1 to IT … Continue reading →