http://aliandcedar.com/cedar Yeah, so what? Mon, 08 May 2006 16:55:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my dream I was reading a history book about marines fighting in Iraq during Desert Storm. It was about these young people flying f-15 fighter jets into combat and getting shot down, then having to fight in the desert. Then I noticed that one of the marines was named ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/10/24/im-a-brainwashed-commando/ A while ago with the Code Red virus making an ass of Microsoft and its users, many cable internet providers (including mine) started blocking port 80, the default port that web pages are served on. Now I'm using DSL and serving on port 80 again, but to work around ISP ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/09/14/change-webserver-port-in-os-x/ I wanted a page of my site to be password protected. Using something called .htaccess with apache you can control who has access to your site. Remember this is not a high security solution, but something to keep regular folks out of certain sections of your site. I learned most ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/09/14/passwords-with-htaccess/ This works if you are running OS X 10.2.3 or (hopefully this will work with future updates too) later.Apple ships apache with OS X. It also ships with php, but is disabled by default. With a single click of the mouse at the sharing control panel you can ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/09/14/enable-php-in-os-x/ To edit some config files that control how certain aspects of your OS X machine operate, (for example, your webserver) you need to be able to edit certain files as "root". If you don't know what "root" is, you shouldn't be doing it, or you need to do a bit ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/09/14/edit-a-file-as-root-in-os-x/ So you don't want to have to type a password everytime you login via ssh to a remote machine? Or you have a script that needs to connect via ssh to a remote machine and you don't want to have to be there to type in the password? Well, you ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/06/26/ssh-without-a-password/ I was back at Westtown and it was finals. But there was a strange rule that you had to run four miles before you took your test. I was very sad because I had three exams on the same day, so I had to run, take a test, run, take ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/03/29/exhausting-finals/ Monsters were taking over the earth. Regular people and animals were morphing into scary blank faced things. Even birds were turning into little flopping balls a jelly-plasticky-yuck. I and my anonymous sidekick retreated to a cave where I thought we would be safe. We mostly were until one of the ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/03/23/scary-saran-wrap/ I was trying to swim from southern California to Seattle in one go. I knew it would be a new record, but I was doing the backstroke, which is easy, so I knew I would make it. But I got tired around Oregon, and had to take a rest in ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/03/19/tornado/ Awstats is the best web log analyzer that I know of, at least for low traffic servers. I don't have experience with in high traffic situations. I used to have awstats installed manually, but now gentoo has an ebuild for it. I tried # emerge awstats which is sufficient for most apps ... http://aliandcedar.com/cedar/2005/03/15/install-awstats-on-gentoo/