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Stop Online Spying

Sun, 07/03/2011 - 06:24 — Dallas Vogels
The Canadian government is trying to ram through an anti-Internet set of electronic surveillance laws that will invade privacy and cost citizens money. The plan is to force every phone and Internet provider to surrender customer's personal information to "authorities" without a warrant.
 
This bizarre legislation will create Internet surveillance that is:
  • Warrantless: A range of "authorities" will have the ability to invade the private lives of law-abiding Canadians and their families using wired Internet and mobile devices, without a warrant or any justification.
  • Invasive and Dangerous: The laws leave Candian's personal and financial information less secure and more susceptible to cybercrime.
  • Costly: Internet services providers may be forced to install millions of dollars worth of spying technology and the cost will be passed down to Canadians.
If enough of us speak out now the Canadian government will have no choice but to stop this mandatory online spying scheme. Sign the petition now, and forward it to everyone you know

MySQL, PHP, Apache, and UTF-8 Issues

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 11:09 — Dallas Vogels

UTF-8 is hell. I have run into problems with UTF-8 before (see Migrating MySQL to UTF-8 encoding).

I moved a site that was displaying fine from an old Apache server to a new Apache2 server and quickly identified that the Apache2 server was displaying odd characters.

The site is running a PHP application with a MySQL backend. The MySQL database is using latin1_swedish_ci character encoding. The old site was displaying correctly. Both the new and old site are using the same database.

So what was going on?

Configure Exim to use Gmail as the SMTP Server

Fri, 09/18/2009 - 10:37 — Dallas Vogels

Configuring Exim to use Gmail as the outgoing SMTP server is simple. This HOWTO will walk you through installing, configuring and routing email thru Gmail for exim.

The first step is to install exim4. Launch terminal and:

sudo apt-get install exim4

Run the following command to configure exim4:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

Set the following:

General type of mail configuration: mail sent by smarthost; no local mail 
System mail name: (default)

Sierra Wireless USB 598 (Telus), Ubuntu 9.04, and Dell Inspiron Mini 10

Thu, 08/27/2009 - 14:09 — Dallas Vogels

The Sierra Wireless USB 598 currently offered through Telus *almost* works on Ubuntu 9.04 out of the box. A Windows or Mac box is needed to install the "Watcher" program that allows for the automatic online configuration of the Sierra Wireless USB 598. Aside from the requirement of Windows/Mac the card was immediately picked up and ready to go.

'No space left on device' Issue With vserver

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 11:54 — Dallas Vogels

I was running into an issue with a vserver where the disk space usage was at 23% but I was getting a 'No space left on device' error message. I run vserver with 12 virtual servers and none of the other servers exhibited the same behavior.

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