http://www.strayneuron.com/blog dkaz, stranded in chicago Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:58:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The key here is using Location (instead of Directory) for your Deny directive (otherwise your JkUnmount'd calls will not be blocked) SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Firefox" bad_bot <Location "/"> Deny from env=bad_bot </Location> http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/476 So damn funny, yet so damn true. http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/472 My oldest kid, a 2nd grader, has started taking some (group) piano classes on a trial basis. She seems to enjoy it a lot, so I bought her a 5-octave keyboard, a stand and a seat - a $300+ investment. As it happens, I played piano for 11 years as a kid, ... http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/463 Found in Apache logs...on a domain that doesn't even have MySQL installed... 85.17.155.21 "GET /phpmyadmin/main.php HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "-" 85.17.155.21 "GET /admin/main.php HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "-" 85.17.155.21 "GET /myadmin/main.php HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "-" 85.17.155.21 "GET /phpMyAdmin/main.php HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "-" 85.17.155.21 "GET /PMA/main.php HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "-" 85.17.155.21 "GET /admin/phpmyadmin/main.php HTTP/1.0" ... http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/462 Argued about it at work today...here's my list...in no particular order... These are the men at the top of their game (therefore Pacino, Nicholson and DeNiro are not present) Leonardo DiCaprio Christian Bale Sean Penn Russell Crowe Philip Seymour Hoffman Brad Pitt Forest Whitaker Paul Giamatti Johnny Depp Jude Law http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/459 I tried out a new video mixing service, Animoto, tonight. I have it to give it very high marks for ease of use, because even my first video (created during "So You Think You Can Dance" commercials) came out way better than I expected. http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/458 Most brilliant work from Microsoft in years... UPDATE (6/2/07): The Register questions whether all this hype about Surface Computing is more "smoke and mirrors" than actual breakthrough. Good reading. http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/448 Little know seq (sequence) utility is a great way to loop on a range of numbers in Linux. It came in very handy today and will hopefully stick in my brain in the future. for i in `seq 1 10` do .. done http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/444 Amusing use of the ternary from our codebase.. log.debug( ( randomize ? "R" : "Not r" ) + "andomizing content" ); :) http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/443 Great car TV show on the planet - TopGear - presents an incredibly enthralling clip of the fastest car on the planet - Bugatti Veyron. Watching clips of "Top Gear" makes you wonder why the show is nowhere to be seen in US. Come on Discovery, buy rights to this damn ... http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/442 Facebook development team has open-sourced their light-weight, cross-language development platform, Thrift. I played around it with it for a while and it looks interesting enough, but I don't have an immediate need for it. Check it out if you have a cross-language environment Thrift currently supports C++, Java, Ruby, Python and PHP ... http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/433 Great article from The Guardian about Linfen, China puts a spotlight on some of the world's scariest places to live. Blacksmith Institute has a full list of world's most polluted places here. http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/431 I've always believed crunches to be the single most effective abdominal exercise. However, research from San Diego State University suggest just the opposite. Check out these results... For strengthening the rectus abdominus (the muscle down the front of the abdomen), ranked most to least effective: 1. Bicycle maneuver 2. Captain's chair 3. Crunches ... http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/430 I was watching this YouTube video on my buddy's projector screen tonight and my kids could not get enough of it....genius... http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/423 Here's a brilliant clip Jonesy turned me onto. No one I've shared it since seemed to get it, but I agree with him it's brilliant. http://www.strayneuron.com/blog/archives/422