BurningbirdWeb technology
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hotlinks — what a perfect word for the practice of directly linking to a photograph or other high bandwidth item on someone else’s server. Hot with its implication of hot goods and thieves passing in the cybernight. The proper term is “direct linking”, and while more technically accurate, the latter […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just published the final three parts of the Weblog Link Series, on permalinking and archives: Part 1 – The Impermanence of Permalinks Part 2 – Re-weaving the Broken Web Part 3 – Architectural Changes for Friendly Permalinking Part 4 – Sweeping out the webs
Have you ever had one of those days? One of those days when you’re faced with trying to get a whole bunch of moving parts working together such as on a web server, and there’s a hundred million possible combinations of Things you Can Do, but only one works? And have you had one of […]
I was able to add SMTP authentication to my installed mail system, which means people will have to log in to send email as well as receive it. This should thwart the misbegotten sons of diseased camels that are spammers. I found that the Wayward Weblogger co-op isn’t the only server that had some technical […]
Managed to make it from San Francisco to St. Louis in two days, but I’m tired, Very tired. I have photos and stories, but unfortunately, I came home and found that the co-op server was hit. The open Sendmail door, unfortunately, but from the nature of what I’m seeing, it looks like the hit to […]