Monday, September 23, 2002

NYT.  "High-Altitude Rambos"  The security insanity continues.  This is a wild tale of how things done in the name of security can potentially be as dangerous as what it attempts to prevent. r. Bob Rajcoomar, a U.S. citizen and former military physician from Lake Worth, Fla., found himself handcuffed and taken into custody last month in one of the many episodes of hysteria to erupt on board airliners in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks.... "We have to take a look at what we're doing in the name of security," said Dr. Rajcoomar. "So many men and women have fought and died for freedom in this great country, and now we are in danger of ruining that in the name of security."   Hear, hear! [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 2:28:10 PM    Comments []

BounceWeb seems to be having problems today. I've been having trouble connecting to the mail servers for all of my domains which are hosted there, and WorldBeatPlanet seems to be down although MacMegasite & mc-development are working. 1:19:50 PM    Comments []

I just took a look at the PHP-Nuke 6.0 code & documentation, although I haven't actually tried it yet. I really like what they did in this version - all of the configuration stuff that used to be in config.php has been moved to a database table. The only thing in config.php now are pointers to the SQL database, where it gets the rest of the configuration information. This is a huge improvement, since config.php was always a pain to maintain. If I wanted to be able to change it from the admin screen, I had to keep that file writable. Plus I would often change it on the server and forget to back up a copy to my local machine (for the rest of the site, I always make the changes locally and upload them to the server). 11:38:29 AM    Comments []

I just checked Cisco's page and it still has the same note, dated Aug. 30: "Please be advised, existing drivers as listed below do not support Mac OS X 10.2. Drivers for Mac OS X 10.2 will be released shortly after the official release of Mac OS X 10.2 from Apple Computer. " The files are now dated Sept. 19, but the version number is still the same as what I have now, v2.1, and it still says it runs on 10.1.x with no mention of 10.2. 10:20:28 AM    Comments []

PHP-Nuke 6.0 Released [PHP-Nuke] I just downloaded it, but I'm pretty busy this week and next week, so it may be a while before I get a chance to upgrade MacMegasite & WorldbeatPlanet. As usual, I'll experiment with it on my G3 before I go live with it on the actual site. With every new release, I always have to update all of my themes, which adds a bit of extra work. 10:09:40 AM    Comments []