http://holyarmy.org/benjamin I have to have a tagline? Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:34:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been a bit obsessive this week as I've been trying to research and find a new camera that I would really like. The last one died last weekend... so we were facing the trip home for Christmas with no camera! Before Beaumin was born, not having a camera for ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/12/i-bought-a-new-camera/ A while back I posted a simple solution for restricting website access in a situation where HTTP basic authentication couldn't be used. Not much more to the story, but I did make a few tweaks to my sample code. The mod_rewrite rule and javascript have been a tiny bit improved, so ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/12/logins-with-mod_rewrite-cookies-and-javascript-redux/ I'm solidly impressed with the WPMU Plugin Commander. One thing that seemed odd to me about WPMU was that I either enable users to have plugin control, or NO ONE (not even the site admin) has the ability to enabled/disable plugins (without a lot of hacking). This plugin provides a control ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/12/wordpressmu-plugin-commander/ I was literally sitting down to write a plugin that did this, when I stumbled across Viper007's Regenerate Thumbnail plugin. I could still write my own version, but eh, what's the point. :) Seems to work great! http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/12/word-press-regenerate-thumbnail-plugin/ A long time ago I used ksh with vi key bindings, and life was good. Then I moved on to bash, but for some reason, I never investigated using vi key bindings. I simply lived with the defaults (which, for the record, are emacs-like key bindings). So, just the other day I ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/12/use-vi-key-bindings-in-bash/ A while back I wrote about advertising Linux services via Avahi/Bonjour. Since then I've made a few changes to my setup. First, I nixed netatalk for direct AFP support. My primary reason for using it was to gain a more Mac-like network filesystem which would make Time Machine happier. Well, Time ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/11/bonjour-avahi-addendum/ I've been spending some time getting my son's blog setup. In doing so, I discovered that as of Wordpress 2.5, there is built-in [ gallery ] functionality.  Though it isn't full featured, it's pretty nice, and perfectly integrated with Wordpress, since, well, it IS Wordpress. Currently the process to put photos ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/10/a-project-idea-iphoto-to-wordpress-gallery-export/ I'm working on some updates to my personal blog which have more or less taken photos down for a while. Hopefully, all will be well again soon. http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/09/upgrades-and-offline-photos/ I got a real kick out of reading this blog post today. It's cool to see good feedback on the company I work for and our flagship product, Clearspace. Of course, since I'm friends with Matt (mentioned in the post), it's nice to know he's doing a good job. Gotta keep ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/07/i-like-jive/ I have to use VPNs at work. Specifically, to access my production webservers (etc), I have to use a Cisco VPN client. Sadly, the VPN concentrator overrides my choice of allowing local LAN access. So, when I am on the VPN, I have my DNS options changed so I can't ... http://holyarmy.org/benjamin/2008/07/fight-back-when-vpn-clients-mis-behave/