Archive for September, 2009
Modifying Vixie Cron for Fun
Introduction Cron is an essential *nix package that silently runs in the background running scheduled jobs. The most common version of cron is Vixie Cron. Coincidentally Vixie Cron is also the most vanilla version — it doesn’t provide any flashy features that other variants have, just the ability to read from a crontab and run [...]
64-bit On A Personal Level
I never paid much attention to 64-bit. I figured 64-bit operating systems were just a natural evolutionary step and I’d just casually start running 64-bit Linux distros whenever it was convenient. I understood the technical benefits with larger integers and stuff, but in my experience, Apache, MySQL, et al ran just the same whether it [...]
Making a Plain Website
Introduction For the past few years, Unix Mages was running on WordPress. The site has not changed in over two years as I was no longer writing content for it. So instead of leaving a stale and possibly insecure WordPress installation on the web, I decided to turn it into an old fashioned static website.