As reported on slashdot: *"The effects of mobile phone radiation on sleep were studied in Sweden in a [laboratory experiment][1] where subjects were exposed either to 884 MHz GSM radiation or placebo. The study finds that compared to placebo, in the radiation-exposed subjects there was a prolonged latency to ... Read Full Article

A recent European study indicates that individual brain cells may be far more capable than previously understood. Get the details [here.][1] [1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7151920.stm ... Read Full Article

This was a head scratcher. I had the misfortune of working on a Solaris 10 server today that exhibited the most bizarre problem. Despite having Mysql 5.0.45 installed in /usr/local/mysql and explicitly setting --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql PHP configure option, phpinfo() consistently reported that the Mysql Client ... Read Full Article

I keep forgetting to put this somewhere where I will find it again. If you have alot of customers that user AOL.COM and you want to send out announcements it's a good idea to get on their whitelist. [http://postmaster.aol.com/whitelist/ ][1] Here's some more information I found through google: Read Full Article

The hottest holiday gift this year for parents will be a home lead testing kit.  Stock up now before they're gone. ... Read Full Article

There is an issue with recent 2.6 kernels and some ATA/SATA controllers which I have run into while trying to install both CentOS 5 and Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Initially, even the boot CD would not work from the builtin DVD reader. To boot the first time I used an external USB DVD. The relevant error was " ... Read Full Article

As part of large project I'm working on, I need to create some kind of context sensitive online help system for a web application. I've used [LyX][1] in the past and exported that to [DocBook][2] which I then ran through an HTML filter but it's clumsy and there's no good maintainable way to link sections of the webapp ... Read Full Article

The machine this site is running on is an old dual PIII 600. The unfortunate thing is that some of the software running on it uses binary-only components that won't run under later versions of linux. So while I work on a replacement for those components, we're stuck running dns1 for the foreseeable future. The ma ... Read Full Article

Cool article covering a bit of increasingly ancient linux history: [**Linux: The 0.01 Release**][1]The first Linux distribution I used was SLS and included the .99pl12 kernel if I remember correctly. I had been working under SCO Unix for quite a while at that point and encountering Linux freed me from that hell. It's ... Read Full Article

In case you're looking for the current version of the mod_evasive Apache web server module, it is located here: mod_dosevasive automatically responds to small to medium level abuse of a web server. Of late, we've been getting hit by some burdensome attacks so ... Read Full Article

Sometimes finding answers to the dirt simple questions is the most challenging. **The question:** You want to boot Knoppix. You have an old machine on which the ATAPI CDROM has died. You have a USB CDROM lying around you could use, but oh wait, the BIOS on your old machine does not support booting from a USB ... Read Full Article

If you are looking for [DTLink Software][1] and/or Personal Stock Streamer you've come to the wrong place. Check out and . To get in touch with me, please use the form. [1]: http://www.dtlink.com ... Read Full Article

Over dinner, Lance and I speculated on what could have gone wrong with Duncan's 5.7l Mercruiser. Did one of the heads crack? Did the head gasket fail? Was there some assembly mistake? Did the block crack? We figured the block must have cracked between the cylinder and the cooling passages near the bottom of the c ... Read Full Article

Poor Duncan. After having just put two brand new heads on his Mercruiser 5.7l V8 drive engine, the block self-destructed on the first outing spewing a disgusting oil/water emulsion everywhere. Duncan and Lance asked to borrow the [building][1] to pull the engine out of the boat. The pictures of this hercule ... Read Full Article

To test our software products for Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility, [DTLink][1] picked up an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC with Vista Home for real cheap. On a lark, I've dumped the Deals' Gap video footage I took onto that laptop and have been putting together a movie using Windows Movie Maker. At the point ... Read Full Article

For those of your running Linux/Apache/PHP/Mysql (and how many of your aren't?) here's a good article from IBM on performance tuning: Of particular note is a project they reference called eAccelerator located: ... Read Full Article

Being unusually proactive, I put together an album of photos from our motorcycle trip down to the Smokey Mountains and Deal's Gap: [http://www.yml.com/uploaded\_html/albums/dealsgap\_2007][1] Trip report is here: [http://yml.com/forums.html?post_id=1288][2] [1]: http://www.yml.com/uploaded_html/albums ... Read Full Article

A glimmer of hope from the WashingtonPost: "The most grating fact about many of these lawsuits is that they were brought by companies with little or no record of doing much with their patented innovations. It can seem that patent lawsuits are the last refuge of the incompetent -- and an annoyingly effective ... Read Full Article

As reported by the Washington Post: "At least 2.5 million broiler chickens from an [Indiana][1] producer were fed pet food scraps contaminated with the chemical melamine and subsequently sold for human consumption, federal health officials reported yesterday." You can read [the full article here.][ ... Read Full Article

Looks like a small startup in Arizona has gotten through the first stages of testing an atmospheric C02 scrubbing device; Get the details [here.][1] If they continue to be successful, one can only hope they go public... [1]: http://www.physorg.com/news96732819.html ... Read Full Article

As reported by Der Spiegel, As far back as 2005, Haefeker ended an article he contributed to the journal *Der Kritischer Agrarbericht* (Critical Agricultural Report) with an Albert Einstein quote: "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more b ... Read Full Article

As reported by washingtonpost.com: "In some neighborhoods, mortgage fraud became so extensive that it drove up overall home prices. That is what happened in Atlanta. Hill, 50, was convicted last month in what authorities call one of the biggest mortgage-fraud cases in U.S. history. It involved 400 fraudulent ... Read Full Article

We're getting hit by ssh dictionary attacks much more frequently now. I just installed a daemon called "SShutOut" available from [http://www.techfinesse.com/sshutout/sshutout.html.][1] It's very quick to install and runs in the background to monitor the /var/log/messages file for excessive failed logi ... Read Full Article

Came across a very interesting presentation on open source business models. blog entry here: [http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my\_weblog/2007/03/the\_best_presen.html][1] [1]: http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/03/the_best_presen.html ... Read Full Article

As reported on slashdot [here][1]: *"Today I launched a new site, [Startupping][2], dedicated to helping Internet entrepreneurs. For the launch I asked several successful entrepreneurs about [lessons they learned starting and running Internet companies][3]. The first set of replies includes responses from Pau ... Read Full Article