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Apachecon NA 2010 – Register now

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Registration for this years Apachecon is now open, you can visit the site here and click on the register for the conference icon Whilst your three why not take a look at the conference schedule and see which talks and meet ups you want to go to. You can even download the schedule as an [...]

Just been to the physio…

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I went to see a physio tonight after suffering with arm and shoulder pain for the past 5/6 weeks after being knocked off my bicycle at about 25mph when a pedestrian stepped out in front of me.. Looks like I will be missing badminton for at least one more month, which is a shame as [...]

Kindle for the iPad

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So. Yesterday I installed kindle on my iPad. What a revelation. No need for iBooks now it seems. Kindle books are cheaper, and a great selection. Enjoying book number 1 already. Also, re-reviewing my photos from aperture – wow stunning screen to look at them on. Yes i may be a fully paid up member [...]

More Apple toys…..

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So, today on the day that the new apple store opened in Covent Garden, London i went ro y local Apple store and picked up a new 32GB iPad, and one of the new wireless trackpads. Firstly the trackpad. What a revelation, way more comfortable than a mouse, and with all the gestures of the [...]

apache.org incident report

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A little earlier we (the Infrastructure team) published our incident report for last week’s intrusion.  You can read the full report here Essentially what happened was; the server that hosted the apachecon.com website was compromised, and after a short while they discovered the SSH key that allowed them to gain shell access on people.apache.org. From [...]

mod_pony goodness

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Thanks to DrBacchus mod_pony has been resurrected, and I have it installed. How do I get mod_pony? (1) svn checkout http://svn.rcbowen.com/svn/public/mod_pony/mod_pony.c /tmp (2) /usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -cia /tmp/mod_pony.c (3) edit your httpd.conf (or variant there of) and add SetHandler pony (4) /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart Now open your browser, and goto  http://foo.example.com/pony  and you should see :– If you [...]