December 2008

configuration error: couldn’t check access. No groups file?

(in Apache on 2008/12/31)

If you see this in Apache 2.2.x, you’re using a Require type that no module recognizes, and you don’t have mod_authz_default loaded

If you’re just using “Require valid-user”, you need mod_authz_user loaded.

You would only hit this if you don’t start with the default config file, or you over-aggressively remove modules.

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Circus escapees make run for the border

(in YouTube on 2008/12/30)

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Define voluntary…

(in Uncategorized on 2008/12/29)

http://www.newsobserver.com/141/story/1347691.html

Wade died after the Saturday afternoon accident in which a van ran a red light and slammed into a car. Police have charged a Durham woman, Linda Lee Ratliff, 46, with involuntary manslaughter, driving while impaired, driving without a license and having an open container of alcohol in the car.

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Busted flash on Debian unstable

(in Uncategorized on 2008/12/28)

Apparently the latest v10 flash player (aka flashplugin-nonfree) freaks out when libgtk1.2 has beel loaded into the address space.

Adobe Flash Player: GTK1.x environments not supported. Exiting now

The IBM JDK v5 loads libgtk1.2 into the mozilla/firefox address space, but the v6 java plugin doesn’t seem to. I did the following, pointing to a piece of software that happens to bundle the IBM JDK v6:

$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /opt/IHS7000/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 999

$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-firefox-javaplugin.so /opt/IHS7000/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 999

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Price Is Right 420-guy

(in YouTube on 2008/12/19)

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Drew Carey is not excited about TPIR

(in YouTube on 2008/12/19)

(some people claim the fix is in for this bid, turn on annotations and watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUrCBXRH8o&feature=related ; others claim there’s a savant in the audience who knows exact prices of thousands of common showcase items!)

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Rock’en droids

(in YouTube on 2008/12/19)

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Six degrees of Adolf Hitler

(in Uncategorized on 2008/12/19)

<@exel> The SIX DEGREES OF HITLER.
<@exel> 1. Go to Wikipedia
<@exel> 2. Click “Random page”.
<@exel> 3. From where you end up, try and get to the Adolf Hitler article in 6 pages or less.
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Ray
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
<@exel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

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ASF Membership

(in Apache on 2008/12/19)

This morning I woke up to an invitation to become an ASF member!

http://www.apache.org/foundation/

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FSF files suit against Cisco

(in Uncategorized on 2008/12/18)

http://www.fsf.org/news/2008-12-cisco-suit

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF’s complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library. In doing so, Cisco has denied its users their right to share and modify the software.

While I hope someone sticks it to them for hiding behind red tape, I think this will only strike more fear into the hearts of corporations and make them stay away from even more liberally licensed OSS software.

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