I just got a new iTouch… and apple does not support Windows XP Pro 64 bit. Seriously?
I’ve found a site that tells you how to use MS Orca to run the Vista 64 bit installer in XP, but why should I have to do that. That is just stupid. This is the first time I’ve tried using an Apple product in four years, and so far I am not impressed at all. Four years ago I had an iMac that was about as useful as a boat anchor in my living room.
…Sigh. I’ll just use it on a different computer that still has XP 32 bit.
Computers
Apple
I travel to frequently and as such need to be able to keep an eye on my servers. I use SSH extensively for this purpose. I’ve been looking for some tools to keep track of bandwidth usage using the command line for a while and recently found some that do exactly what I want.
I found a list that introduced me to a bunch of different tools. Two of my favorites are bmon and bwm-ng. Both of these command line tools can be installed in Ubuntu by using apt-get. technical
Technical Notes
terminal, Tools, ubuntu
I’ve made a new page on my blog for listing information about upcoming LAN parties. If you’re a friend send me an email with details (or otherwise contact me) and I can add the get-together to the list.
Computers, This Site
I had some spare time today and decided to make use of my Cox internet connection while I still have it. Naturally the only thing to do with an unused connection was to put a Tor exit node on it 
The guide found at ubuntu-tutorials.com was very helpful. In short, simply use “apt-get install tor” to install the software and then edit /etc/tor/torc to change all the settings. It is required to give your endpoint a unique nickname. Read the config file and you’ll be fine. You can then use “sudo /etc/init.d/tor start” to start Tor and “tail -f /var/log/tor/log” to check the status.
If Apache is giving you trouble, or you should screw up the config files beyond recognition, it is possible to wipe Apache out completely and then re-install it. If you’re just playing around with the server this can save you a lot of time. The command to remove apache2 completely is “apt-get remove –purge apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils ssl-cert” You can then reinstall apache using the default values with “apt-get install apache2″ It’s very simple once you know what some of the tricks are
Computers, How To
apache, Scripts, server, ubuntu