Redirecting to the preferred hostname
I just use simple RedirectMatches, but this could save some time: “Since I got fed up with writing complex rewrite rules for hosts that exist in multiple TLDs and both with and without the ‘www.’, I hacked up an Apache module that does this.”
(tags: apache module redirect preferred canonical hostname)
Monthly Archives: October 2006
links for 2006-10-25
October 26, 2006 – 09:19
links for 2006-10-24
October 25, 2006 – 09:18
How to Run a Useless Conference
Presentation Zen eye for the conference guy: “Facts don’t change people’s behavior. Emotion changes people’s behavior.” Thanks Jaq!
(tags: conference emotion facts lca2007 organisation)
DriverlessDevice - ZD1211 USB WLAN Linux drivers
An interesting solution for legacy operating system driver issues… posing an interesting problem for modern operating system drivers.
(tags: linux drivers windows usb […]
QoTD: Havoc Pennington
October 24, 2006 – 14:59
“And I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to filing some completely unreasonable window manager bug and then raising hell when the maintainer rejects my demands. “ — Havoc Pennington, about Compiz on d-d-l
links for 2006-10-23
October 24, 2006 – 09:20
Microsoft Set to Tap Non-Pro Tools Market
Another “consumer drives enterprise” datapoint: Microsoft figures out that the ‘non-professional’ software development grassroots — currently finding solace in Open Source — is 3 to 4 times larger than the professional segment.
(tags: microsoft consumer enterprise opensource)
Politics Schmolitics
October 23, 2006 – 22:53
The United States of America…
is armed to the teeth with nukes,
disrespects international law,
invades and wages war on foreign countries based on abject lies,
savagely ignores human rights,
has virtually buried habeas corpus,
supports institutionalised torture,
and finally, the USA has banned Vegemite!
This kind of behaviour tends to bring out the yobbos bagging Yanks mentality, even among ever-tolerant Aussie GNOME […]
Rocktease
October 18, 2006 – 22:50
Yesterday afternoon, I paced around a bit, furrowed my brow, scratched my chin, massaged my temples, and pressed the big red button. The first round of CFP talk and tutorial feedback emails hit the streets, with 77 positives, 16 backups and 183 negatives.
It was hard reading through the test logs, looking at the people and […]
links for 2006-10-16
October 17, 2006 – 09:22
Jefferies: Oracle Close to Entering Linux Market, Challenging Red Hat
If this is true, we could hear about it within the month: “We have heard that Ubuntu is currently working to certify its recently introduced server OS to all [of] Oracle’s major products, including databases and middleware.”
(tags: oracle redhat ubuntu)
Tony Blair’s speech to the Labour Party […]
Seventh Heaven
October 16, 2006 – 03:21
We were confident that linux.conf.au 2007 would rock before we’d seen any talk, tutorial or miniconf proposals. Now we’re just flat-out gobsmacked.
The night before the Boston Summit, I joined the linux.conf.au 2007 programme review team meeting by phone. Despite the horror of a 19:00 to 02:00 meeting, I had it easy: Our reviewers had already […]
Geek rap posse
October 16, 2006 – 01:45
One day, in the not-too-distant future, a pumpin’ rap outfit will appear upon this Earth, dedicated to all things geeky. And they shall be called… the Woot Ang-Band.
That is all.
links for 2006-10-13
October 14, 2006 – 09:19
Opening doors to open source for women
“From thoughtless comments on mailing lists to outright rudeness, women constantly battle the perception that there is no comfortable place for them in the predominately male world of open source software. That, however, may be beginning to change.”
(tags: press piawaugh hannawallach women debian gnome ubuntu fedora flosspols)
