Doug's musings

Web-related software

[2007-10-31] Apache on Leopard ::

I know enough about web programming to be dangerous: this site is run by code I’ve cobbled together over the last 5 years. My home Mac G5 tower runs a local, experimental version of the site. I installed Leopard and lots of stuff broke. I’m going to attempt to document things as I fix them. ...

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[2004-03-16] First person ::

Someone asked Google for a biography of Lao Tzu, and ended up here. He apparently had some expectation that my page would be a relatively authoritative source and left three juvenile comments. Well, I refer to a good book, but sure, there’s no other information there, and it’s between him and Google if my page is “in the way” of his trying to learn something on the Internet without having to buy a book. It occurred to me later, Google could be made smart enough to detect the use of the first, second and third person in language to classify pages into first-person narratives, dialogs, etc. Update (17 Mar): Uh, wait, not everything containing more opinion than information is identifiable by being written in the first person!

[2003-10-22] Keeping localhost local ::

It’s easy in Mac OS X 10.3's Console to look at one’s local web server logs (/var/log/httpd/) and I found myself doing that this evening. Usually amidst my own tracks of messing around with my local copy of this site, there are just a few occasional, laughable attempts to probe my system for Windows web server exploits. But today I saw a steady stream of valid requests, eating bandwidth (and possibly opening a security hole since I muck around with CGI scripts): ...

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