This version of my blog is now defunct and will no longer be updated. I have decided to bite the bullet and install and instance of MySQL in order to use WordPress. It will continue to exist in pure HTML format to preserve the links and URLs that have been indexed by the various search engines over the past couple of years. Please visit (and update your bookmarks to) the new Navigator's Quarters WordPress blog at:
This is my final blog post using Movable Type. Several months ago, I learned that Six Apart would no longer natively support PostgreSQL in future versions of its software. Since then, I have been casually searching for a suitable replacement but found nothing worthwhile. I installed and briefly worked with Serendipity, but I couldn't find any noteworthy improvements over Movable Type, so I didn't think I would gain anything by a mere lateral migration. I began an earnest search for a replacement a few days ago and it appears that WordPress enjoys widespread support and receives good reviews from both users and administrators. The only problem -- and it is a very big problem for me -- is that the software only natively supports MySQL. I briefly used it back in the late-1990s. Suffice it to say that I am not now, have never been, nor will I ever be a proponent of MySQL, and I simply do not understand the size of the user base and acceptance it receives. Anyway, I held my nose and downloaded the Mac OS X version of the "database." Then I installed it and relearned the bare minimum I needed to create a database and configure a user account for a prototype WordPress installation.
It took less than five minutes to get WordPress up and running. I've been working with it for about an hour, getting comfortable with how it operates. I was able to install the syntaxhighlighter plugin with zero difficulty, enable it and put it to good use even more quickly. There is a utility called Pg4WP out there that I may try before going to production with WordPress, but I have a feeling that it may not be worthwhile. In the end, I'm once again reminded that we should never say never. I said that I'd never voluntarily run a MySQL instance in any environment, but may end up doing just that. How about this? I'll never voluntarily run a MySQL instance in an enterprise-level capacity!
It took less than five minutes to get WordPress up and running. I've been working with it for about an hour, getting comfortable with how it operates. I was able to install the syntaxhighlighter plugin with zero difficulty, enable it and put it to good use even more quickly. There is a utility called Pg4WP out there that I may try before going to production with WordPress, but I have a feeling that it may not be worthwhile. In the end, I'm once again reminded that we should never say never. I said that I'd never voluntarily run a MySQL instance in any environment, but may end up doing just that. How about this? I'll never voluntarily run a MySQL instance in an enterprise-level capacity!
The tripe that the democrats peddled as health care reform has absolutely nothing to do with health care, nor does it have anything to do with reform (of anything). It is a power grab by a power-hungry bunch of corrupt, lying elitists and, in true liberal form, the manufacture of a crisis to make an excuse for bigger government and reduced freedom for the American citizenry. The monstrosity piece of horrible legislation known as "ObamaCare" does absolutely nothing to address any of the problems that may (or may not) exist in the best medical system in the entire world. Quite simply, real reform begins with three (3) simple steps:
- Tort reform (limiting the amount of money awarded in malpractice lawsuits)
- Eliminating all medical services to illegal aliens
- Eliminating HMOs and PPOs and returning to pay-as-you-go medical care, except for catastrophic illnesses and injuries.
Here's yet another shining example of how a liberal will do anything to destroy all that is good, wholesome, and right. Ronaldus Maximus' supposed son, Ronnie, Jr., has written a book in which he describes his father as suffering from early stages of Alzheimer's disease while he was still in office.
From the article:
"The younger Reagan recalls how his father became uncharacteristically lost for words and looked "lost and bewildered" during the 1984 presidential debates with Democratic rival Walter Mondale. He says his father may have suspected the onset of Alzheimer's in 1986 when he was flying over familiar canyons north of Los Angeles and became alarmed that he could no longer remember their names."
Here's an "example" of how "lost and bewildered" the great man was:
From the article:
"The younger Reagan recalls how his father became uncharacteristically lost for words and looked "lost and bewildered" during the 1984 presidential debates with Democratic rival Walter Mondale. He says his father may have suspected the onset of Alzheimer's in 1986 when he was flying over familiar canyons north of Los Angeles and became alarmed that he could no longer remember their names."
Here's an "example" of how "lost and bewildered" the great man was:
It's difficult enough for me to see so much of the farce that is currently holding [hostage] the office of the President of the United States of America. Furthermore, it's almost intolerable to see the Manchurian Moonbat with the termagant woman he calls his wife. To add insult to injury is the image below that was plastered on the FoxNews web site, exclaiming the possibility of his speech tonight in Arizona being a "defining moment" for the so-called President. What a couple of disingenuous cretins! They can't even feign sadness without looking like the incompetent boobs that they really are! I'd even go so far as to say that Moo-chelle has a smile on her face.
How is it that some people are able to so eloquently and coherently put their thoughts about the world into words? Ayn Rand was a master:
Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves ... . That emotion is: hatred of the good for being the good.
This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view of the good with which one does not agree ... . Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one's own (conscious or subconscious) judgment. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable.
If a child wants to get good grades in school, but is unable or unwilling to achieve them and begins to hate the children who do, that is hatred of the good. If a man regards intelligence as a value, but is troubled by self-doubt and begins to hate the men he judges to be intelligent, that is hatred of the good.
Put into today's context, this accurately sums-up the liberal, "progressive" mindset. Liberals today are soulless, selfish, evil fascists who will stop at nothing to advance their ill-conceived, dangerous, puerile agenda.
How about:
They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself . . . . They are the essence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that they're after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man.
H/T: Atlas Shrugs
I received a complaint from one of my customers about a password problem that reappeared (after having helped fix it only last night). A quick review of the logs revealed no authentication failures from the account, but I did see a few messages that I hadn't seen until now:
I had just (last night) enabled Dovecot's deliver LDA (with the sieve plugin) for virtual account delivery and post-processing. Additionally, I enabled the managesieve plugin in the webmail client to provide customers the ability to mange everything themselves. A bit more research revealed (to me, anyway) that the Dovecot sieve and/or webmail managesieve plugins were consuming and holding one of those connections.
To solve the problem, I added to dovecot.conf:
The default seems to be 10.
imap-login: Info: Maximum number of connections from user+IP exceededI had just (last night) enabled Dovecot's deliver LDA (with the sieve plugin) for virtual account delivery and post-processing. Additionally, I enabled the managesieve plugin in the webmail client to provide customers the ability to mange everything themselves. A bit more research revealed (to me, anyway) that the Dovecot sieve and/or webmail managesieve plugins were consuming and holding one of those connections.
To solve the problem, I added to dovecot.conf:
mail_max_userip_connections = 20
The default seems to be 10.
I ran across lilURL a couple of months ago, so I
thought I'd apply it to a short domain name I recently registered. Try
it out at http://gqq.co/ and let me know what you think.
It'll be around as long as it's not abused or, if it is, if it doesn't take too long to fix whatever weaknesses are exploited. It contains very little of the original lilURL code since I've ported all the database code to PostgreSQL, added URI reputation checks, and created methods out of much of the code that was originally contained in the index source file.
It'll be around as long as it's not abused or, if it is, if it doesn't take too long to fix whatever weaknesses are exploited. It contains very little of the original lilURL code since I've ported all the database code to PostgreSQL, added URI reputation checks, and created methods out of much of the code that was originally contained in the index source file.
H/T: Michael Graham
Please take a moment to learn how taxation really works in our country. When Obama and his ilk try to fool people into thinking that the so-called rich aren't paying their fair share, you'll be armed with information to combat the FUD.
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