http://basile.project.dyc.edu Thoughts and Opinions Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:35:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As far as human endeavors go, computer systems are the most complex thing we've ever created. If the ancient Egyptians gave us great buildings, and the Greeks gave us great philosophical systems, then today our digital technology will be the legacy we leave our children. But with anything ... http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2009/09/20/why-hardening-is-important/ Remember the day when you had to know HTML to put a web page up? It was only for Geeks. Now I have my student just use a Web 2.0 app, type into their browser and they have professional looking pages. That's because the Wordpress team did ... http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2008/06/02/why-web-20-is-taking-off/ The MIT team found a technique for perserving ram memory after powerdown! They do it by cooling the ram so the state does die on power off and then boot it with a tiny kernel, dump the ram contents, do hard core ECC and get the whole shbang. http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2008/02/26/omg-ram-does-not-lose-its-memory-on-powerdown/ Every time I go to Party City, they ask me for my Zip code, and every time, I give them a random answer. I make sure its an existing Zip code, so they can't identify it as an error, but nonetheless, it is andom. Why do they need ... http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2007/09/10/information-leaking-is-not-just-an-internet-phenomenon/ So from 7:00 this morning until 9:15 I've been working on making our content management systems properly relay through our mail server, mail.ddl.dyc.edu, so that everything will conform with our DNS's MX record. Actually I did moodle two days ago, it was trivial to reconfigure since we're using postfix. ... http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2007/09/01/setting-up-proper-mail-relaying-for-moodle-and-bb6/ Today, we switched to a new subnet for all the distance learning servers: 67.151.215.224/27. Whois gives: PaeTec Communications, Inc. PAETECCOMM (NET-67-151-0-0-1) ... http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2007/08/23/new-subnet-for-the-distance-learning-servers/ I updated Wordpress MU from 1.1.1 to 1.2.3. I also added a bunch of themes. http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2007/07/31/update-to-123/ Dan, an IT student - Education Major has just joined the family of bloggers at DYC. Round of applause please .... http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2007/04/01/welcoming-dan-to-the-family-of-blogsdyc/ Reality TV has taught me nothing more than there is a level of human dignity, or lack thereof, which I have not hitherto imagined possible --- perhaps the modern equivalent of the ancient gladiatorial games where the combats tear emotional gashes at one another to the cheers of an audience ... http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2007/03/06/i-hate-reality-tv/ Welcome to my blog and to project.dyc.edu which is the latest in a long line of servers that I've set up for D'Youville College's Distance Learning program. Its running GRSEC hardened Gentoo on a 4x3GHz Intel Xeon, 4GB RAM, 6x320GB RAID-5 on aMegaRaid card. http://basile.project.dyc.edu/2007/02/22/i-just-gave-birth/