January 2008

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Birthday Wish from Dave

Happy Happy Happy Birthday!!!!!!

A Big 6!

Roxane is 6 years old today! Happy Birthday, Roxy.

Debhelper >=6

I have been working on my first couple perl module packages with the Debian Perl Group, and a change of debhelper to version 6 in [pkg]/debian/compat and building on Etch (version 5) gave me a few problems.. A bit of help from Roberto got me pointed in the right direction – this works: $ cd [...]

Burra Sahib

One of my heroes has passed. Sir Edmund Hillary was a humble and honorable man who dedicated many years helping the people of Nepal build schools and medical clinics – a much grander accomplishment than any mountain.

Blog Spam Trap

I went from 100′s of blog spams a week to under 10 in the last week with a simple .htaccess addition: # begin spammer SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^TrackBack/*” spammer=yes Order allow,deny allow from all deny from env=spammer # end spammer This catches an evil little script with a UserAgent of “TrackBack/1.02″ that has been hitting from [...]