Jade's weblog Archive

I've recently accepted a job offer as senior developer at Volunteer Solutions, for the United Way.

Pretty amazing example of a seamless user experience, with a lot going on behind the scenes.

Interesting article on how to use XML HTTP.

Patch for smtp-auth. I'm having trouble getting it to work.

Very useful dictionary site for Japanese to English, English to Japanese, and a Japanese-Japanese dictionary as well.

Useful for copy and pasting when I'm reading Japanese websites.

Oracle 10g is out on the Mac.

My father has just set up his webpage. It has examples of his artwork, and looks much better than my site.

The Fertilator is a comprehensive calculator designed to assist hobbyists with the fertilization of their aquarium.

Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, according to a nationwide poll.

The survey conducted by Cornell University also found that Republicans and people who described themselves as highly religious were more apt to support curtailing Muslims' civil liberties than Democrats or people who are less religious.

Scary statistics.

The age of smart drugs is dawning. Modafinil is just one in an array of brain-boosting medications — some already on pharmacy shelves and others in development — that promise an era of sharper thinking through chemistry.

Would you take a drug that made you smarter?

.

In June of that year, Murphy filed suit against the Herald and four of its writers for a "malicious and relentless campaign of libel unprecedented in the history of this Commonwealth." In court papers, he said the Herald "set out to sensationalize" a story that never happened. As a result, he said, his life had been threatened, his reputation had been ruined, and two of his daughters had been threatened with rape on a Herald-sponsored chat room. In August of this year, a Boston judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit.

An excellent essay on how to be an effective manager of smart people. My favorite part is where he suggests asking your team member: "What do you need to kick ass on this project?"

Loved this last year, loved it this year.

Pretty interesting.

On Slashdot, there is a discussion on how Google Suggest works. An even more detailed description of how Google Suggest works.

Great that you'll be involved with domestic violence legal work. Please consider taking a look at Stop Abuse For Everyone: http://www.safe4all.org

This is a list of movies someone recommended to me.

Pathfinder
Manchurian Candidate
Last of the Mohicans
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Sp ring
Princess Bride
Annie Hall
Babe
Terminator 2
Aliens 2
Walkabout
Chinatown
Das Boot
Hoop Dreams
Nashville
28 Up
The Last Wave
Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
Big
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Godfather
Wrath of Khan (Star Trek 2)
Lost Weekend
Emerald Forest
Seven Samurai
The Hit
Rumble Fish
La Femme Nikita
The 7th Seal
Europa Europa
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Nashville
The Matrix

Interesting article.

[Comedian David Cross] even seemed to have a better handle on the mindset of Osama bin Laden than the Bush administration: "If the terrorists hated freedom, then the Netherlands would be fucking dust." Just a few months later, bin Laden released one of his tapes (not on Sub Pop), saying, "Bush has told you that we do not like freedom. Then why didn't we hit Sweden?" Whoa.

Via Joel Aufrecht

A Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints.

find directory1 -type f > file1
find directory2 -type f > file2
diff -u file1 file2

Nonprofit organizations are supposed to certify now that we don't emploly anybody from these organizations, or this terrorist list.

Index: edit-this-page/templates/article-index.tcl
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/ibr/packages/edit-this-page/templates/article-index.tcl,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2
--- edit-this-page/templates/article-index.tcl  6 May 2004 23:59:35 -0000       1.1.1.1
+++ edit-this-page/templates/article-index.tcl  8 Apr 2004 18:46:24 -0000       1.2
@@ -20,3 +20,9 @@
 
 etp::get_page_attributes
 etp::get_content_items
+
+# customization as per 
+# http://www.thecodemill.biz/publications/blog/one-entry?entry_id=9879
+# to allow includes, etc.
+eval [template::adp_compile -string $pa(content)]
+set pa(content) ${__adp_output}

I would nominate Stop Abuse For Everyone

Documents how to set up a production server with Arch.

As long as this is evidence-based, I don't really have that much of a problem with prosecuting even when someone recants.

Some side-effects: victims may come forward more, because they know it will be out of their hands once they make the initial allegation. Or they may come forward less, because they won't want their abuser to be arrested.

I was glad the article pointed out that people can make false reports.

How to turn on statistics command on Postgres

I updated my CO₂ page, with information on better needle valves

A good summary of reasons why to choose Debian over other distributions.

If you get an error like this:

/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd: error while loading shared libraries: libnsd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Try ldd:

/usr/local/aolserver/bin# ldd nsd
        libnsd.so => not found
        libnsthread.so => not found
        libtcl8.4.so.0 => /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0 (0x40018000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400ba000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x400bd000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400d1000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400f2000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

It looks like the libraries are not being found.

Try this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/aolserver/lib

Vinod's entry fixes it here:

http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=161815

You may need to edit your /usr/local/aolserver/nsd-postgres file to include Aolserver's lib directories.

Presentation on Macromedia Flex

Interesting that they will only name men convicted of domestic violence, and not vic e versa. Seems like a strange policy... What about GLBT domestic violence?

Gives an overview of Laszlo, and his argument for why to use it versus Flex or XAML

Laszlo may not need the presentation server soon. Very cool

Interesting rich text technology, outputs to flash, open source.

Good overview of rich internet applications.

Link to a bunch of rich internet applications.

This is useful for Arch and CVS. Explains how to process .rej files with emacs.

Lists what's coming in Mac OS 10.4. Some of it is very very cool.

Good to file away for later. This was written by Joel.

It looks like the anti-gay marriage laws are already starting to be used against equal rights: in Utah, a lawyer is arguing that an individual in a same-sex domestic violence case shouldn't be able to get a protective order.

Do people realize what these laws do?

Orwellian, but I see why they're doing it. We'll need to watch how these technologies are used..

When people register on an OpenACS site, you can give them the option to join a mailing list:

Index: user-new.tcl
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/safe4all/packages/acs-subsite/lib/user-new.tcl,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.2
diff -u -r1.1.1.2 user-new.tcl
--- user-new.tcl        22 Jun 2004 21:06:53 -0000      1.1.1.2
+++ user-new.tcl        5 Oct 2004 17:41:39 -0000
@@ -39,6 +39,20 @@

ad_form -name register -export {next_url user_id return_url} -form [auth::get_r
egistration_form_elements]

+# safe4all.org extention
+
+set checked_p [list checked ""]
+
+ad_form -extend -name register -form {
+    {join_announce_p:text(checkbox),optional
+        {label "Receive weekly news?"}
+        {help_text "You can opt out at any point, and we do not give out your email address."}
+        {options {{"" "on"}}}
+        {html $checked_p}
+    }
+}
+
+
if { [exists_and_not_null rel_group_id] } {
    ad_form -extend -name register -form {
        {rel_group_id:integer(hidden),optional}
@@ -81,6 +95,21 @@
                                      -secret_question $secret_question \
                                      -secret_answer $secret_answer]

+        # safe4all.org
+
+        if {[string equal $creation_info(creation_status) "ok"]} {
+            if {[string is true $join_announce_p]} {
+                ns_sendmail \
+                    "safe-announce-subscribe@mail.safe4all.org"; \
+                    $email \
+                    "join safe-announce mailing list" \
+                    "I would like to join the SAFE-announce mailing list. Infor\
mation on subscribing and unsubscribing are available at http://www.safe4all.or\
g/forums/forum-view?forum%5fid=13394"
+
+            }
+        }
+
        if { [string equal $creation_info(creation_status) "ok"] && [exists_and
_not_null rel_group_id] } {
            group::add_member \
                -group_id $rel_group_id \

This is the coolest tip I've heard in a while. I didn't even realize it was possible...

In your /etc/profile:

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

# added to allow X11 applications to run
if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]]
then
export DISPLAY=:0.0
fi

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
export PATH

[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && source /etc/bashrc

Open up X11, and now you can use X11 apps from the terminal. Nice!

You can set up X11 to boot on startup, in the background, and now you have seamless X11 / Terminal use.

Interesting article on Fox News.

.

Very interesting

Our apology to the rest of the world..

My skype id is jadeforrest.

I've updated this document. It works.

Interesting article on why Libya's 'renouncing terrorism' was not really that at all.

[15:10] > what could I have done in my config.tcl file?
[15:10]  *csari* change this line: set hostname                  [ns_info hostname]
[15:10]  *csari* to 'set hostname www.usbakery.com'
[15:10] > ahhh, that makes sense!

I just changed IP addresses/host names, and I think that's leading to signature problems on my archive?

usb-staging@usbakery:~/usb-staging$ tla changes --diffs
* looking for jader-usbstaging@bread.com--2004/openacs--usb-staging--1.0--patch-12 to compare with
corrupt pristine (failed inode signature validation)
archive: jader-usbstaging@bread.com--2004
revision: openacs--usb-staging--1.0--patch-12
directory /home/usb-staging/usb-staging/{arch}/++pristine-trees/unlocked/openacs/openacs--usb-staging/openacs--usb-staging--1.0/jader-usbstaging@bread.com--2004/openacs--usb-staging--1.0--patch-12
You should remove this pristine from your tree.


The solution, according to johill on #arch, is to delete the {arch}/++pristine-trees directory, and then 'configure a revision library'.

I'm figuring out how to do the latter right now.

Very good reviews.

This may be caused by a directory being owned by root underneath the current directory. I.e. permissions issues. Terrible error message, though.

$ tla changes --diffs
* looking for jader-usb@bread.com--2004/openacs--usb--1.0--patch-1 to compare with
* comparing to jader-usb@bread.com--2004/openacs--usb--1.0--patch-1
PANIC: i/o error in arch_inventory_traversal/is_nested_tree

This is pretty frustrating. I thought I could fix it with my .arch_inventory file:

precious ^supervisor$

But it's still not working:

$ tla tree-lint
PANIC: i/o error in arch_inventory_traversal/is_nested_tree

I ended up changing the =tagging-method file. That worked. The .arch_inventory file works for files in the same directory only, I think.

Work purchased me a new wireless mouse, and it's been great.

However, occasionally the mouse slows down. I applied a Bluetooth update, which seemed to help, but now the problem is back..

This is driving me nuts.

Interesting to look at for comparison to the developmental practices of OpenACS. We're getting closer to a vision of something like this, but we're not quite there yet. Matthew's new AMS package allows us to have the plumbing for this sort of thing -- it really finishes some of the form problems OpenACS never resolved. Exciting stuff.

A blow by blow account of how things may go on election night.

Very very cool tool

Worth reading.

Someone forwarded this to me, and I forwarded it on. A friend found it slightly offensive, sent me his pastor's response, which I'll post as a comment after this.

I  need some advice,  regarding some  elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.

• Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
• I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
• I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual un-cleanliness Lev.15:19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
• When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is, my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
• I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2. clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
• A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?
• Lev.21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?
• Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev.19:27. How should they die?
• I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear pig skin gloves?
• My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-

  Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I am confident you can help.   Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging. Your grateful student,

Jon Udell has a great demo of the JotSpot demo, a next generation Wiki. It has some interesting ideas in it, kind of a cross between a CMS and a Wiki.

The internet found me... years after leaving this job, I end up in a database of game developers!

A man named Harry Crouch coined a term recently: gendersaur. I've changed its meaning slightly to refer to those who want one gender or the other to predominate, or those who think that the other gender is to blame for everything.

2004-09-23 20:08:14 [11723] FATAL: could not open configuration file "/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf": Permission denied

Fixed with chmod o+r /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf

This seems to be necessary every time I upgrade postgresql from apt-get.

From the site:

The public is beginning to recognize—with increasing clarity—that the policies of President Bush and the right wing are simply failing America. That's why the right wing's rhetoric seems to be growing more divorced from reality every day.

They invoke "security" even as their catastrophic war of choice in Iraq makes American and Iraqi citizens less safe. They talk "opportunity," but practice tax cuts for the few and pay cuts for the many. They parade "compassion," even while our country suffers a record increase in poverty and job loss.

The right wing can't hide their dismal failures forever! Help cut through their smoke and mirrors, and pave the way for progressive solutions that genuinely serve the American people!

The night before last, I was thinking about my grandfather, who has gone blind in the last couple of years, and was struck with an idea: what if you took a small sonar system, hooked it up to a handheld computer and two earphones, and created a computer program that would encode the sonar signals into a meaninful map of the physical world around you?

I imagined what a huge difference this would make for the blind around the world, I imagined how it would be developed, and even how the business model would work. I named my 'company', thought through its development. I imagined the engineering and design problems that would be faced: ''what information would be important to convey and what to ignore? How long would it take to learn? etc...'' I wasn't able to sleep for about 3 hours after I went to bed.

Ah, but a simple Google search finds that I am not the first to think of such an idea. Alas.

• Portable 3D Sound / Sonar Navigation System for Blind Individuals
• Google search on sonar and blind

I wonder if someone has come up with a device that reads text to blind people? Scans the world ahead and reads out any text encountered. I'm sure there is. :)

.

I updated my docs on dynamically generating PDFs from OpenACS.

These are some notes that I hope to revise into a better post-mortem. They show how the safe4all.org server got hacked. Here's the vulnerability they exploited: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=195894


safe4all.log.2004-07-27-00:00:200.153.243.141 - - [26/Jul/2004:07:22:26 -0700] "PUT /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 201 275 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -

safe4all.log.2004-07-27-00:00:200.153.243.141 - - [26/Jul/2004:07:22:26 -0700] "PUT /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 201 275 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -

safe4all.log.2004-07-31-00:00:213.219.122.11 - - [30/Jul/2004:10:55:24 -0700] "GET /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 15 "" "Wget/1.9.1" -

safe4all.log.2004-07-31-00:00:164.71.2.5 - - [30/Jul/2004:10:56:19 -0700] "GET /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 15 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)" -

safe4all.log.2004-07-31-00:00:207.46.98.60 - - [30/Jul/2004:13:56:21 -0700] "GET /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 15 "" "msnbot/0.11 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)" -

safe4all.log.2004-08-02-00:00:164.71.2.5 - - [01/Aug/2004:04:28:33 -0700] "GET /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 15 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)" -

safe4all.log.2004-08-02-00:00:82.135.2.64 - - [01/Aug/2004:10:20:52 -0700] "GET /hbr.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 15 "http://www.zone-h.org/defacements/filter/filter_defacer=H4ck3rsBr" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" -

safe4all.log.2004-08-03-00:00:200.153.243.109 - - [02/Aug/2004:09:32:34 -0700] "PUT /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -

On http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements/filter/filter_defacer=Hack3rz/ you can see all the defacements from this particular hackers:

2004/08/01 H4ck3rsBR M safe4all.org/hbr.htm Linux

The initial file: hbr.htm:

H4ck3rsBr Ownz You System...

Rehacked on the 15th:

2004/08/15 Hack3rz H R safe4all.org

A bunch of clueless people trying to figure out what happened:
http://www.parcom.net/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1732

Looks like they've broken into PHP Nuke too: http://www.phidelity.com/cms/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=30

They claim they don't leave any trojans:
http://mirror.delta5.com.br/2004/07/31/mail.buerger.passau.de/


safe4all.log.2004-07-18-00:00:200.158.9.169 - - [17/Jul/2004:16:08:24 -0700] "PUT /fusion.htm HTTP/1.0" 404 547 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-07-19-00:00:200.158.8.201 - - [18/Jul/2004:19:46:49 -0700] "PUT /h4ck3rsbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 404 547 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-07-24-00:00:200.162.208.250 - - [23/Jul/2004:04:55:27 -0700] "PUT /www.arplhmd.cjb.net_064133 HTTP/1.0" 201 294 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-07-24-00:00:200.162.208.250 - - [23/Jul/2004:04:55:27 -0700] "PUT /www.arplhmd.cjb.net_064133 HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-07-27-00:00:200.153.243.141 - - [26/Jul/2004:07:22:26 -0700] "PUT /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 201 275 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-08-03-00:00:200.153.243.109 - - [02/Aug/2004:09:32:34 -0700] "PUT /hbr.htm HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:13:56:28 -0700] "PUT /www.arplhmd.cjb.net_175955 HTTP/1.0" 201 294 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:15:00:55 -0700] "PUT /index.html HTTP/1.0" 201 278 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:15:05:14 -0700] "PUT /default.htm HTTP/1.0" 201 279 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:15:05:23 -0700] "PUT /default.html HTTP/1.0" 201 280 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:15:05:33 -0700] "PUT /home.htm HTTP/1.0" 201 276 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:15:06:15 -0700] "PUT /index.htm HTTP/1.0" 201 277 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.101.38.143 - - [14/Aug/2004:16:49:45 -0700] "PUT /www.arplhmd.cjb.net_205434 HTTP/1.0" 201 294 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.101.38.143 - - [14/Aug/2004:17:17:33 -0700] "PUT /www.arplhmd.cjb.net_205434 HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV 1.1" -



safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:14:59:40 -0700] "DELETE /index.html HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:14:59:45 -0700] "DELETE /index.tcl HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"

safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:14:59:49 -0700] "DELETE /index.xql HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:14:59:57 -0700] "DELETE /index.adp HTTP/1.0" 204 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"
safe4all.log.2004-08-15-00:00:200.140.36.237 - - [14/Aug/2004:15:00:20 -0700] "HEAD /index.html HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider DAV" "ad_session_id=3614167%2c0%2c0+%7b313+1092521929+AFE1A1CE4C39886DB8352FB52167F1F92CE039EA%7d"



82.96.96.3 - - [14/Aug/2004:20:48:58 -0700] "CONNECT 82.96.96.3:802 HTTP/1.0" 404 547 "" "" -
82.96.96.3 - - [14/Aug/2004:20:48:59 -0700] "POST http://82.96.96.3:802/ HTTP/1.0" 500 540 "" "" -
82.96.96.3 - - [14/Aug/2004:20:48:59 -0700] "CONNECT 82.96.96.3:802 HTTP/1.0" 404 547 "" "" -
82.96.96.3 - - [14/Aug/2004:20:48:59 -0700] "POST http://82.96.96.3:802/ HTTP/1.0" 500 540 "" "" -


IP addresses:

200.158.8.201
200.162.208.250
200.153.243.141
200.140.36.237
200.101.38.143
82.96.96.3

If you missed the speech, you can watch it online here (RealPlayer required; alternatively, just load this URL into RealPlayer:

rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04_dnc072704_obama.rm
Obama's keynote address.

Or, here's the text of Obama's speech at the convention. I recommend you watch the video, however.

Here's the Obama for Illinois webpage, and here's the Obama Blog.

I wrote the following to a friend who wrote an editorial in favor of the war in Iraq:

My main objections:

- The main arguments against going to war in Iraq is not that Iraq would never have been a threat (there are potentially many threats out there) -- the argument is that it was a huge and dangerous distraction from a very real threat: al-Qaeda. If al-Qaeda attacks us again, should we attack another country that might someday be a threat, or should we attack al-Qaeda? We should have put 120 thousand troops in Afghanistan, instead of Iraq. We let bin Laden go.

- Your argument about this not being a war for oil by saying that we haven't invaded Venezuela would be more persuasive if the US hadn't been involved in a coup in Venezuela during the Bush administration.

Google on this:

United States coup venezuela


We may yet accomplish good things in Iraq. But if al-Qaeda succeeds in another major attack against the US, that will be the price.

Oh, and there's also the additional problem that Iraq has become a huge propaganda machine for anti-Americanism. Al-Qaeda is terrifically happy that we've invaded Iraq. Numerous reports have said that we're losing the war on terror, because we're not attacking the problem at its source, but instead focusing on a distraction.

Good article summarizing techniques for backups on Linux.

Yumm.

Randy posted a useful tip for ad_form validation

screen seems very useful for me. Google Answers describes how to change the default from ctrl-A on screen

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Good article on logging and analyzing queries in Postgres, thanks to Jeff.

The link doesn't actually go to the after-mount callback, but it shows how it's added into the .info file.

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perl -pi -e "s/^\\connect olduser$/\\connect newuser/" filename

Thanks, Dave, Dossy, and Til.

To load in the database dump:

psql -f filename dbusername

Helpful reference.

I updated my easy virtual hosting document. I finally fixed the most major problem I