http://matthewwhitworth.com The Personal Homepage of Matthew Whitworth (duh!) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:41:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congratulations to the Boston Celtics (including Louisville native and University of Kentucky alumnus Rajon Rondo with 21 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 6 steals) on their huge win earlier tonight against the L.A. Lakers to clinch the 2008 NBA Finals. They've had a heck of a season and ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/06/17/celtics-win-big/ Shortly after the big server rebuild a few weeks back I was examining the web server logs and I noticed that several sites were stealing okcomputer.org bandwidth by linking images from the okcomputer.org Photo Gallery directly into their web sites. This is just a tacky thing to do on ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/02/15/configure-apache-shoot-foot/ Remember a few weeks ago when I was having all the wireless troubles?  The problem seemed to go away for a bit, and then WHAMMO!  It bit me again recently...again when I was downstairs in the living room. Jessica heard me crying about it and mentioned that she had been having ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/02/14/wrt54g-vs-wre54g/ I've spent the last few days investigating Plone as a potential replacement for WordPress for the okcomputer.org web site, but, as is frequently the case when experimenting with new technology around here, I've been beating my head against the wall trying to get my Plone installation to work behind an ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/02/06/escape-from-mod_rewrite/ After the filesystem crash back in October I had 11 gigabytes worth of files without meaningful names just sitting in a lost+found directory. I was forced to come up with some creative ways to salvage data. $ find lost+found/ -type f | wc -l 79370 $ du -sh lost+found/ 11G ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/01/26/the-great-photo-salvage/ For some unknown reason, I got vaguely interested in Gravatars this week. I'll spare you the Google search -- Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars. (And for you total lame-os, avatars are the little pictures next to people's names in some forums and blog comments.) The idea is ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/01/23/easy-empty-gravatars/ All okcomputer.org services and accounts have been migrated to the new okcomputer.org server, firefly, for a couple of weeks now, so today I started work on decommissioning the old server, serenity. Normally I'd wipe the disks like so: # dd infile=/dev/urandom outfile=/dev/hda1 But that has been complicated by the annoying fact ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/01/22/shredding-serenity/ Kid Amnesiac, Jessica's blog about Simon, has always been cursed with lots of comment spam, which I had never really bothered to investigate. It was easier to simply mark the offending comments as spam every time I logged in and move on, especially since the spam comments always required moderation ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/01/21/disabling-trackbacks-the-hard-way/ I decided to use some of my rolled-over vacation days this week and give myself a four-day weekend. It's been nice, and I've crossed a few items off my tasklist: rebuilt the okcomputer.org CA, put new tires on the car, installed DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT54G wireless router. Things were ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/01/19/network-manager-vs-keyring-manager/ So ever since I pushed the new matthewwhitworth.com site into production Jessica has been bugging me about whether or not it was getting any hits. Although I kept telling her that I was giving it time and didn't expect anything for quite a while, I was actually checking the ... http://matthewwhitworth.com/2008/01/17/first-contact-winner/