The Burgess Blog

links for 2006-07-12

burgessblog — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:16:58 +0000

Intrusion Detection With BASE And Snort | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

(tags: linux snort security)

links for 2006-06-18

burgessblog — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:17:08 +0000

MAKE: Blog: Cellphones - and portraits of mass consumption

Cellphones

(tags: cellphones)

links for 2006-05-22

burgessblog — Mon, 22 May 2006 03:17:34 +0000

» Browser bug or did Yahoo! just acquire Technorati? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

(tags: yahoo technorati buying web 2.0)

links for 2006-05-14

burgessblog — Sun, 14 May 2006 03:17:32 +0000

FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux | CNET News.com

links for 2006-05-09

burgessblog — Tue, 09 May 2006 03:17:33 +0000

links for 2006-05-07

burgessblog — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:17:27 +0000

links for 2006-04-25

burgessblog — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:17:18 +0000

RIAA sues family that doesn’t own a PC

However, the RIAA’s lawsuit maintains that Carma Walls, through the use of a file-sharing program, has infringed on the copyrights for the following songs: “Who Will Save Your Soul,” Jewel
Microsoft Details Vista’s Media Features

Microsoft on Monday detailed innovations coming in Windows Vista that the company believes makes the operating system superior in the delivery of multimedia.
Microsoft begins to argue its antitrust appeal in Europe

Microsoft at last has its day in court as the European Court of First Instance hears the company’s appeal of its antitrust sanctions.

links for 2006-04-22

burgessblog — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:17:33 +0000

links for 2006-04-13

burgessblog — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:17:27 +0000

TiVo, DirecTV Make Nice in 3-Yr Deal

Users of the TiVo service via DirecTV will be supported through 2008 thanks to an agreement finalized Wednesday.

links for 2006-04-12

burgessblog — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:17:17 +0000

This Boring Headline Is Written for Google

Regardless of how odd it might have been to report on himself, Steve Lohr has written a piece about how newspapers are now thinking about how Google might parse the paper’s headlines, and how it’s changed the art of headline writing.

links for 2006-04-08

burgessblog — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:17:30 +0000

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links for 2006-03-20

burgessblog — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:16:58 +0000

Wikipedia introduces brand new main page

The vote on the redesign just came in, and the Bureaucrat (a Wikipedia rank above Administrator) in charge of attending the main page and choosing the featured articles that appear on it just changed it over.

(tags: wikipedia)

links for 2006-03-19

burgessblog — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:16:51 +0000

Linux.com: Review: GNOME 2.14

The GNOME desktop has come a long way since a study sponsored by Sun Microsystems in 2001 raised usability issues…

(tags: Gnome linux computers)

links for 2006-01-13

burgessblog — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:23:24 +0000

Apple Matters | MacBook Pro

links for 2006-01-07

burgessblog — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:18:55 +0000

Just Installed Linux? Here’s What You Should Know.

burgessblog — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:44:17 +0000

This is a wonderful article. I know a lot of new Linux users are quite confused over where everything is. This article really shows some good info. Please go check it out!

links for 2006-01-05

burgessblog — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:21:40 +0000

links for 2006-01-03

burgessblog — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:13:42 +0000

links for 2006-01-01

burgessblog — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:14:06 +0000

links for 2005-12-26

burgessblog — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 03:22:20 +0000

news @ nature.com�-�Internet encyclopaedias go head to head�-�Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

burgessblog — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:16:49 +0000

Ok so, I am just posting this to tell you what I got for christmas. In the past week or so I got enough money to go out and buy a iMac. I had saved about 1700 dollars, and I got the extra 200 to get the 20 inch. I got that, and I got a tivo. Those are the two big things. So my iMac is a 20″ w/ iSight and front row. Also, I added a 512 meg stick to come to a total of a gig of ram. I have been playing around with front row, and oh my god it is absolutely brilliant. This is just a tip to all of the people who also have front row. It only looks in the movies or iTunes directories. So, if you want to have your videos on a seperate drive, you can’t really do that. That is where you are wrong. You can have the data on a seperate drive, and create an alias to the video in your movies folder. It will then show up in front row. What did you guys get for christmas? Go ahead and post!

My Switch to DreamHost

burgessblog — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:31:00 +0000

Well As you probably noticed, I switched to a different hosting provider lately. Initially I have been hosted on a2hosting. I used them because of their php5 support. Back in December of last year, I knew php5 and wanted to use the new features in php5. Yet, it was quite new so there were only a few hosting companies that offered it. a2hosting was the best one I could find. So I signed up for a hosting and a domain. I realized that for 10 bucks a month only 300 megs of space was not very much. I made sure that I didn’t go over it, and generally I was fine. I loved that they used cPanel, and the site was down only once, that I know of. There servers were a tad slow, but acceptable. I would recommend them to anyone. As I said I didn’t like the small amount of space and bandwidth. So, I decided that when my time ran out, I would change hosters. I found Dreamhost. They had a very good 10 dollar plan. It came with 4.8 gigs of space and 120 gigs of bandwidth. Another really cool feature was that every week my space increased by 40 megs, and my bandwidth increased by a gig. Also there were unlimited MySQL databases, instead of my previous 3. The plan had php5 and everything I wanted so I decided to switch. I also wanted to move my domain from a2hosting. So, I have used godaddy previously, and I moved it there. That was a breeze to do.

So now I had bought 2 years of dreamhost service. I have to do the worst things possible, move EVERYTHING. The first thing I had to do was change the DNS records of the domain to point to the new dreamhost name servers. I did that monday night, knowing that it would take at least 12 hours for that to take effect. I woke up the next morning, seeing that my domain was pointing to an empty location. This was good. Thankfully, I had a two hour delay from snow that morning, so I went to work. My first mission was to export the three databases from my previous host. I had one for php-nuke, and two wordpress databases. So I went into phpMyAdmin and exported them all. I then uploaded them to the new host and went into shell, to import them. The two wordpress imports worked beautifully. The php-nuke one though had a single error. I looked at the export file, and for somereason one of the tables, was a import command. That was weird, so I just erased that and it imported fine. Now I had to upload everything. So I first downloaded every thing from my previous site and started the upload. I had to go to school then. I figured that the the site would finish uploading and then the site would be up and running. Of course, while uploading, either my ftp client (Kasablanca) crashed, or the ftp connection timed out and the upload didn’t finish. I had to stay late that night for school and didn’t get home and done with my homework before 11. I had to go to bed so it was going to be the next day. Wednesday morning and opened up a different ftp client (KBear) and uploaded. It finished by the time I got home, but when I went to the site, the front page news wasn’t there and errors were all over the place in the forums section and many other places. I couldn’t figure it out. So I finished my homework and went to bed. Thursday morning I thought maybe it was the import error that I got that might be causing these problems. So I went back and compared the dreamhost MySQL database to the a2hosting MySQL database. The dreamhost MySQL database had about 8 less table than the a2hosting database.I saw that the dreamhost database had all of the tables up to the phpnuke_sessions table. I re-imported the MySQL database to try and get those missing tables, but when I re-imported, I got that same error. This time I looked and saw it had to do with the phpnuke_sessions table.

Now, I have to figure out why phpnuke_sessions is not importing. So, I went and looked what was in it. It turned out that it was a malformed php import statement. It works wonderfully in php, but not in the export script. So I just told PHPMyAdmin to export just the tables after phpnuke_sessions. I then imported those into the new database, and everything worked perfectly. Just to make sure, I then manually moved the phpnuke_sesssions table to the new dreamhost MySQL database.

links for 2005-12-18

burgessblog — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:20:43 +0000

links for 2005-12-14

burgessblog — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:17:29 +0000

links for 2005-12-11

burgessblog — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:16:01 +0000

links for 2005-12-10

burgessblog — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:20:02 +0000

links for 2005-12-05

burgessblog — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:17:45 +0000

links for 2005-11-30

burgessblog — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:13:47 +0000

I Love mPlayer

burgessblog — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:54:18 +0000

I just thought you guys would like to know that I love mPlayer. It makes playing video on linux an absolute dream. It comes with all of the codecs you need and can play dvds. Also, it is commen enough that you can get it for any common distro, in binary form. So it is a sinch to install, and a sinch to use. So it is not completely leagel, I love it and I wish it was leagel.

links for 2005-11-23

burgessblog — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:15:31 +0000

links for 2005-11-22

burgessblog — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:13:29 +0000

links for 2005-11-21

burgessblog — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:12:38 +0000

New Features for Blog

burgessblog — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:34:07 +0000

Well I have added a few new “features” I guess you can call them to the blog. First is the daily del.icio.us posts. I can’t always write new post every day. Generally though, I go through NewsGator everyday and I have a list of feeds that pretty much catch everything that goes on around the tech world, and good amount of the science world. So everyday I go through all of those feeds (usually about 500 posts a day to go through) and open all the good ones up in tabs. I then choose the articles that are either very good, or news and save them with del.icio.us. So my daily del.icio.us links are what I think the best of the best links of that day.

The second “feature” is a Now Playing thing that you can see below. Basically when I post with BlogJet it just looks at my iTunes and then puts it in the post. Also it links to the iTunes Music Store if you want to buy the song. I think it is just kind of cool.

Now playing: Less Than Jake - We’re All Dudes

NewsGator Server Error?

burgessblog — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:17:42 +0000

I have noticed that NewsGator is written in ASP.NET. You can tell this because of the .aspx extension on all of the files. I am fine with that. My major problem is that they make changes to their code, and don’t debug it before they send it live. This has happenend more than once. The screen to the right is a ASP.NET error message. That means that the NewsGator people must have updated something on the site, or changed some code. Normally, when you do this, you change the code and don’t send it live. You give a short debugging cycle. This problem would have been easy to spot as it is blatantly obvious that someone screwed up. Now this has happened to me more than once. What is up NewsGator?

links for 2005-11-20

burgessblog — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:13:33 +0000

Microsoft is better?

burgessblog — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:53:25 +0000

I find this article just sad. Basically, the article is about a study done by a “third party” that said that Windows is less confusing and better than Linux as a server platform. There are some major problems with this “third party.” The first is that this “third party” is licensed by Microsoft. Which means that they already like Microsoft. The second problem is that Microsoft sponsored this study. That means that they gave this “third party” money to do the study. How are you supposed to be unbiased, when you are receiving funds from one of the companies you are reviewing? Does that not sound amazingly fishy to you, or is it just me? Novell hasn’t come out with a statement as of this writing, but I hope they do soon!