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Posted in Misc on Jul 21st, 2009
Yesterday I found a problem with proftpd, an FTP server, on Ubuntu v9.04. I confess I despaired of Linux for a while, then received a pleasant surprise.
The sequence of events:
Need File Transfer Protocol (FTP)? Install proftpd
A different FTP server is standard with Ubuntu (vsftpd) because it’s less of a security risk: it doesn’t use root [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 20th, 2009
Here’s a fine piece on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog. I am sure it resonated with many.
It’s the future of journalism, already here.
Richard Sine’s recent Close the J-Schools piece struck a chord with me. I used to hang around a school of journalism when I was a graduate student. I had a friend who taught [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 13th, 2009
I have lived in America, read some of its history, traveled the length and breadth of it (all but 6 states), and I read its newspapers and magazines and watch Jon Stewart on the web. Nevertheless, I found myself racking my brains the other day at a casual reference in an article to someone
doing a [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 8th, 2009
Ariel Leve, whom I haven’t read for a while, has an amusing post on her IT guy.
This brought back some memories of being the IT guy. Who else goes to parties with an OFF DUTY badge in a pocket, just in case (and, yes, I needed it and used it). I am not making it [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 8th, 2009
I was half-asleep this morning when I heard on the radio that war had been declared, so it took a while for the news to sink in.
Turning later to the BBC News website and the story Google to launch operating system I found myself smiling, at this
One of Google’s major goals is to take Microsoft [...]
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