Wed, 25 Aug 2004
Is Sendmail on a suicide run? OH PLEASE YES!
There are rumblings about Sendmail and it's future distribution, both it's
involvement in the IETF and Microsoft circus known as Sender-ID and it's
own new license are topics worthy of discussion and attention, a brief
collection of useful links can be found at the OpenBSD Journal.
I normally don't get involved in subjects like this until it's community rallying time (such as European Patents) but I have a vested interest in this one, I'd like to see Sendmail make itself expensive, propriety and (even more) difficult to distribute. You may consider that an odd view but look at it from a different perspective, everyone who still (*cough* Redhat *cough*) packages it in the base system would have to join the rest of the twenty first century and bundles something that actually works, like Postfix or Exim.
Before I get hate mail from the people who have spent years of their lives in caves and on mountain tops learning the arcane syntax and pointlessly complex options let me state for the record, I understand that for certain near-unique and highly powered tasks you need Sendmail and nothing else will do. If you are in that area then you can damn well build your own version. For the rest of the people that get it by default it's time to step in and give them a better baseline; anything that's not Sendmail.
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Posted: 2004/08/25 22:03 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Lovers of good SciFi Rejoice
My name is Dean, and I'm a Farscape fan. I have just one thing to say: W00T!
Why am I making gamer noises of joy? The FARSCAPE Trailer has been released.
For those of you that don't know the back story the best place to start is the Save FARSCAPE site. The short version is that the TV execs meddled in the show and then shut it down. The fans rebelled and, considering that it's back, I'd say we won. The Net is a wonderful thing. The long version can be found at the site itself.
It's been a bad year for stupid mistakes at the big TV companies, FarScape goes off the air, Wonderfalls is culled before it even had a chance and the premature retirement of Angel to make room for yet more reality TV rubbish is enough to make even casual fans of genre TV curse. But the return of FarScape, while an isolated incident is an important one, the tech savvy fanbase are starting to understand how to have their voices heard. And we just won round one.
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Posted: 2004/08/25 21:45 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Loading the mod_perl Module
Today I hit an issue with mod_perl that had me going around in circles for
about an hour, my mod_perl handler wasn't being invoked, and I was getting
a directory listing instead. With the able assistance of a co-worker the
problem was found and solved pretty quickly.
If you add the "LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_perl.so" line into the config file yourself ensure it's the last line otherwise something else such as mod_dir or mod_index will execute instead and you'll go insane trying to work it out.
I'm hoping Google will pick this post up and help the next poor soul.
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Posted: 2004/08/25 21:10 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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