http://blue.cornbread.com Diary of a Weirdo-American Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:38:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found some good instructions on running Windows from an existing partition in a dual boot Windows/Ubuntu system. http://blue.cornbread.com/2009/08/03/running-windows-from-an-existing-partition-in-a-dual-boot-windowsubuntu We saw the Pretenders at Stubb's in Austin, Texas. We had the good fortune of running into a few of our friends of a certain age demographic. Chrissie Hynde and original member Martin Chambers played a number of songs from their new album, Break Up the Concrete. ... http://blue.cornbread.com/2009/03/01/the-pretenders openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 After the key exchange, enter the following: OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1 host: localhost After hitting enter once or twice, I got this: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Changed to protect the innocent 1.0 X-Powered-By: Some server Allow: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS The Allow header shows that WebDAV methods are enabled, even though ... http://blue.cornbread.com/2009/02/09/webdav The following link has excellent instructions on a convenient and secure way to be able to copy files or move between servers without having to enter passwords every time, a boon to security-conscious people with huge passwords: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/06/perform-ssh-and-scp-without-entering-password-on-openssh/. http://blue.cornbread.com/2009/01/16/ssh The mind is a terrible thing. I should never play Call of Duty 4 and read the Huffington Post right before bedtime. In my dream, I was an undercover reporter. My job was to infiltrate a new prison built in secret right here in the good ole US ... http://blue.cornbread.com/2008/10/30/exercise-your-rights Here's an example proxy.conf file for Apache2 used to set up a reverse proxy to multiple web applications written using the SEAM framework. We're using mod_proxy_balancer with the intention of being able to add additional servers to each cluster in the future. # disable proxy requests - if enabled, becomes ... http://blue.cornbread.com/2008/07/29/example-apache-2-reverse-proxy-configuration-for-multiple-web-applications Mammatus clouds over Salina, Kansas. http://blue.cornbread.com/2008/06/11/mammatus-clouds Here's a link to an excellent Unix reference containing just about any command I can think of and then some: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml. http://blue.cornbread.com/2008/03/29/unix-toolbox I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!Will Rogers This primary, I'm a Democrat. I'm also not a member of an organized political party. After voting in the Texas Democratic primary, my lovely wife and I participated in the primary caucus at the neighborhood elementary ... http://blue.cornbread.com/2008/03/04/2008primary My favorite quote from an article in conservative America's favorite newspaper. With recent polls showing that Mr. Obama has cut deeply into Mrs. Clinton’s lead in Texas, or even erased it, the state has become a political battleground to a degree not witnessed in a generation. And the rapidly mounting fight ... http://blue.cornbread.com/2008/02/25/146