The server is back up and running, now under FreeBSD 6.2. First things first, I had forgotten how slow compiling packages is. And I’d forgotten about fun with dependencies. Getting the latest and greatest ports collection with portsnap was easy enough.
The first port I installed was vim and its installation led to [...]
My Web site is back, now running under FreeBSD. Getting everything configured correctly was a big pain, although that’s not FreeBSD’s fault. I’ll have a more detailed post later.
I’m going to get the server this site lives on reloaded sometime in the next 24 hours, so this site will be down from then until I get everything to work again. If worse comes to worst I’ll move everything to backup hosting, but lets hope it doesn’t come to that.
I didn’t know that Curse Gaming (the very popular site for World of Warcraft fans) runs Django. Looks like they’re wringing some serious performance out of it, too.
Google runs its own public transit system to get its employees to and from work in relative comfort. I had no idea.
Much hay has been made of the results of a recent poll that asked Muslims whether suicide bombings are justifiable. In the poll, 78% of Muslim Americans said that suicide bombing is never justifiable. FP Passport dug up a December 2006 poll which asked Americans whether intentionally bombing civilians is justifiable. Less than 50% of [...]
YouNotSneaky! calculates how big a jerk you have to be to be anti-immigration. Here’s how he frames his thought experiment:
This kind of argument provokes the expected response from the expected folks, roughly along the lines that we should care more about native workers - the citizens - then the migrants - the non-citizens. [...]
It’s barely lunchtime and she’s already admitted to breaking the law. She’s still employed by the Justice Department as far as I know.
Update: Goodling resigned her position at the Justice Department in April.
In his Bible studies, David Plotz learns that the first documented encounter between Jews and Arabs presages everything that follows:
Let’s pause for a moment to observe the entrance of the Bible’s first, and I believe only, “Arab.” Arabia is referred to a few times in passing in various books, and anonymous “Arabians” are [...]
So I have a Web server running Fedora Core 4. That was the latest and greatest Fedora when I opened my hosting account, but now it’s slightly out of date. The Fedora project is up to version 6, and the stuff installed on my server no longer really gets updated. I’m not a systems [...]