In line with the other desired upgrades, the MySQL upgrade is complete. A little trickery was required to have both databases running at the same time; essentially changing some port and socket file names in the my.cnf file. This allowed importing the… more »

I was reminded that we saw this movie in the theater, and before Inside Man. It's a little love story. The trailers told it all, and the details are left for the movie. Matthew McConaughey plays Tripp, a thirty-something who still lives at home wit… more »

Starting a little more slowly, I went to the core of the apparent problem, and decided to build the base up again. PERL had been installed with the initial OS, and upgraded three times since. Each of these left remnants in the @INC path, that I can't… more »

I couldn't remember enough about the movie to remember if I'd ever seen it. It seemed such a stock film ("ours go to 11") that I must have seen it before. So I got it from Netflix, and watched it. I remember now that I had seen it, and that it was, re… more »

Watched this Brando classic on DVD. Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a boxer turned longshoreman and friend to the local union mobster boss. In a quick turn of events, he unknowingly assists in the murder of a fellow longshoreman and unionmember at t… more »

I managed to munge the server trying to upgrade the web server, and lost all services for the majority of yesterday! Not "all services," but everything I was trying to upgrade hit the tank, and hit it hard. I'm pretty good at upgrading software. I'… more »

Apache released v2.2.0. PHP is now v5.1.2. MySQL is now v5.0.19. None of these are up-to-date on my servers. None of them is terribly out of date as Apache v2.0.54, PHP v5.0.4, and MySQL v4.1.13 are installed. Sendmail is also out of date (8.13.5 versus… more »