Out of Control®

This week we had to resolve an issue with Subversion on RHEL5. We use post-commit hooks to have external directories get an auto-update from the repository everytime someone check-in a file or update. This all worked fine on RHEL4 using sudoers. On RHEL5 we were getting Authentication failures each time we tried.
Turns out that RHEL5 [...]

Short post tonight. Really tired after fighting a long cold and stressful weak. However, I just wanted to say:
Don’t do it, Don’t even fix it right. Don’t pay the Dreamhost man! (ala Chris de Burgh’s Ferry man).
I wanted to try a few different hosting companies. Dreamhost looked interesting as it offered SVN repositories, for $8 [...]

Updated April 1st 2008
Yesterday I upgrade my PHP to version 5. To do the brunt of the work, I used some prebuilt RPM's from over at mirror.cheetaweb.com. The only problem is that I frequently use mcrypt in my work, and these RPM's lack that feature.
The solution is a simple one if you know what [...]

Have you ever taken a picture and been told by a security guard or other person to stop and delete those pictures, and did you delete those pictures? Do you know what your rights are in regards to taking pictures in public areas? If you are like me, a self proclaimed amateur photographer--after all, who [...]