Linux
Apache mod_rewrite frustration
Dear lazyweb, I’m having severe issues with Apache’s mod_rewrite on my VPS. I’m pretty sure what I want to do is doable, but I can’t figure out the rewrite rules to allow it. In my httpd.conf I have something similar to this: <IfModule mod_dav.c> LimitXMLRequestBody 131072 DavLockDB /var/dav/DavLock Alias /dav “/home/user/dav” #<Directory /home/user/dav> <Location /dav> [...]
Computer Security
Another good one!
Working from home
Saw this picture and had to share it. I’m very close to living up to my clients’ expectations in this picture. =) It also made me realize I need bunny slippers and have to work in bed more often.
rpm -V and prelinked binaries
I’v been asked this question a few times over the last year or so, so I thought I would explain some of why you might see some issues on a Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux system (or any other Linux distribution that uses prelinked binaries) when trying to track down strange MD5/SHA1 changes to [...]
Some quick git tips
As I’ve been git-ifying some stuff around here, I’ve run into a few tips that might be useful for other git beginners. The first is to setup some global options, some of which are nice for folks coming from Subversion. Having a global ignore file is useful. Mine has the following contents: *~ *.orig *.rej [...]
Merged Annvix.org with linsec.ca
So today I spent a lot of time manually merging the annvix.org mediawiki data into my linsec.ca wiki (in a new Annvix namespace). There are some various automated tools and mediawiki import/export stuff, but I didn’t have a lot in terms of pages so taking a few hours to do this manually was no big [...]