Wednesday, June 26, 2002

OMG this is hilarious. Various quotes from IRC channels. God they are good....
Smile. Mars is.
I got new headphones at work. Used a gift certificate I got for my birthday for them. Thanks Brian. I can now actually hear on both sides, its amazing how different music sounds when you can hear both channels. So I found a ShoutCast station to listen too. Nice Techno music. If I could find something that played 90's-today music without tons of repeats of the same songs I'd listen to that... But I do enjoy the bass on this.
*sigh* You know RedHat is going down the same road Microsoft went down. Apparently if you get a default install of RedHat Linux, or use an RPM and install Apache, you get everything. Isn't it the Linux people I usually hear screaming that everything should be turned off by default and you turn on what you want to? I mean it makes sense to me, I think Microsoft should have started this a while ago. Apparently RedHat though is going down this same road. That gets me to the fun issue I have had this week. We upgraded our web servers to Apache 1.3.26 to fix a security issue, no problem there. Built and installed Apache many many times. Got that running. Of course my boss asks me to upgrade one of the servers from their old company. Of course it was a default install of Apache and had all these modules installed, and he had no idea what was being used and what wasn't. Well after a while I got that running had to recompile some of the modules by hand but got it going... Then we have a client who has a box they just bought and it has a default install of RedHat. Same issue, only this time I have problems getting the mod_php.so and libphp4.so stuff running. So I spend a great deal of time trying to get it going and it always says the module is garbled. Eventually I find out from the customer that they are not using php anyway. At this point I say screw it and go with the rpm. Thank god it works or it would have sucked to back out of.