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Posts on ‘August 14th, 2003’

power outages in the Northeast

Apparently, there are currently major power outages in the Northeast affecting New York City, Cleaveland and Detroit.
Does anyone know how or why?
Update @3:39pm: BoingBoing is reporting this as is the front page of CNN.com.
Update @3:41pm: It appears that Ottawa and Toronto are also having problems.
Update @3:42pm: Reuters has the story too with no additional information.
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mod_vdbh for Apache

mod_vdbh for Apache answers my Apache configuration issues. With this in place, Apache doesn't need to be HUPed upon configuration changes, and all of the configuration data can be stored in the MySQL database, which means there is no need to write configuration files. I'm not sure how fast it is, but it sounds good. [...]

webhosting: making progress

After digging a little deeper into the world of Linux software that I've been avoiding for so long, I've come up with a few solutions. I've found MySQL interfaces for postfix, an SMTP server, courier, and IMAP/POP server, and mydns, a DNS server. I simply have to write web interfaces that use these MySQL tables [...]