Lonely Lion

Remember the Amish Bread we needed to feed and tend? CB baked it up on Monday. It turned out pretty well. There was a mishap with baking soda, but the bread turned out good nonetheless.

Way to go Amish!

The Pickle

Ithamar Enriquez and I made The Pickle this summer. I finally put it online. Hope you enjoy it.

We shot the movie with a Kodak DX3600 still camera that can take MPEG movies. I edited it with Adobe Premiere, and created some of the effects in Adobe After Effects.

NoCatNet

A bunch of links, FAQ’s, and home-brew antenna stuff. Wireless is still new enough that it’s fun to read about how to solder yourself new equipment.

O’Reilly Network: The Essence of Community Wireless

How to build a long range wireless antenna from a coffee can. Very cool.

I haven’t written about bread in a while. I claim that this site is about computers and baking bread, but it’s been pretty computer heavy as of late.

So:

A guy at work gave me a bag of what looks like baby throw up. It’s “Amish Friendship Bread”. It’s similar in theory to sour dough bread. You get a starter thing (which looks like sick), coddle it for a week or so, and then add it to general bread stuff instead of yeast.

The bag is sitting on my desk. My cube smells like a brewery. Somewhere on the bag, the gassy yeast waste is leaking out. Tomorrow the bag gets fed, Sunday the bag gets baked. I’ll try to keep all you salivating bread fans in the know.

The Public DNS Service

Nice, they can do the whole thing (all DNS for a domain), or act as a Secondary DNS. Cool.

Smoothwall Networking Guide

A good TCP/IP primer

I just finished building a “server” out of a bunch of spare parts I had around the house. It’s no powerhouse, but it’ll do as a web server to replace my current hosting service for this site. It’s a 400mhz Celeron w/ 128mb RAM, and an 8 gig HD.

I put FreeBSD on there, I was pretty taken by the Ports collection. Thinking it’d be a snap to install Apache, PHP, MySQL and mod_perl. Ports, while very cool in theory, don’t work as well as advertised. Multiple failed attempts to get my “LAMP” environment working has led me to believe that I’m better off going with Red Hat.

Although I think there’s a lot of worth in FreeBSD, I don’t have the time to troubleshoot a lot of compilation problems. Red Hat with the Apache Toolbox is a proven thing. I’ve installed it multiple times with no problems. I feel comfortable with it.

Also, despite the nerd cache included with FreeBSD, Red Hat is a industry name. I can put “Maintains a Red Hat Linux Web Server” on my resume more easily than “Maintains a FreeBSD…”

FreeBSD wins the cool award, but Red Hat has the power of name recognition.

Apache suEXEC Support

Harumph. This is a pain to install. I’m sure it’s not as bad as it seems, but it’s been kicking my butt. Again, harumph.

The Java Telnet App | Terminal/Telnet/SSH | javassh.org

Pretty cool, you can SSH or Telnet over the web. So long dumb firewall restrictions.