This is just a quick entry on how to see which software is using which ports. This comes in handy when trying to install an application server, web server, etc, and are getting errors like "port is in use".
Basically in any Unix type derivative such as Linux such (Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSe, etc.), as well [...]

If you're reading this message, a DNS change has finally been relayed to your DNS client and you're hitting this site on my new server.
After many minor problems hosting at home (mostly outages for various networking/power reasons) and not having enough bandwidth to survive being digg'ed or Slashdotted, I recently decided to seek a hosting [...]

Last week I spent a surprisingly small amount of time setting up a new Ubuntu Server as a Virtual Machine which will be used to run ircd and a few other minor things internally to replace an existing FreeBSD "server" (it's running on some old crappy spare hardware). I decided to use Ubuntu this [...]

My Slashdotting entry is being dugg/digged again. More to follow, but so far today I've served up 8K users, and have a bunch of active connections:

Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state)
tcp6 [...]

Being a lifelong geek, I'm usually an early adopter of various technologies, and Linux has been no exception for me. I started using Linux sometime in 1997 after hearing about it on IRC. I first installed RedHat on a 486 without XFree86 to play with it and force myself to learn *nix by [...]

Being very pragmatic, I like to hear the pluses and minuses for given cases and make a decision on my own. I'm not usually quick to "drink the KoolAid" which does make people grumpy from time to time, but I'd rather make a bad decision on my own after evaluating as much information as [...]

I'm recompiling PHP5 on my server to add PostgreSQL support, and couldn't figure-out why all of the various mod_php* ports had disappeared from the ports/www. Turns out you need to enable PHP to do its own Apache support now. To have PHP build an SO for Apache:

bash-2.05b# cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
bash-2.05b# make config

Select the check [...]

I came across a good article via del.icio.us at IBM developerWorks titled "Standards and specs: Not by UNIX alone" which talks about the various Unix standards including POSIX, as well as why most people who know software development well prefer working with Unix. Another interesting tidbit covered is the difference between UNIX and Unix [...]

Every time I find myself on a Linux box I find myself a bit crippled without being able to use Easy Editor. I do know vi as it was the first editor I taught myself, but it seems very archaic and clunky to me. It always takes a bit of research to [...]

I'd heard murmurs of such a platform before, but I didn't know there was an active project to create a version of BSD optimized for desktop use. FreeBSD stability and ports system plus a decent desktop environment would be a very sweet thing. I might have to throw it on my SuSe [...]