Some useful thoughts from Jim Manzi.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
High-Speed Trains!
You know who else liked them?
The Nordic landscape cries out to be traversed by rails over which express trains can speed. It is a characteristic of all Nordic vehicles to increase their speed. Ever-increasing velocity is a built-in characteristic of the rails themselves, the rails by which, in the Nordic experience of the world, the whole world is penetrated. Rails that are already in existence and those that must constantly be constructed for ever newer, ever faster vehicles on which men who experience the world Nordically may strive toward ever new goals. The Nordic soul experiences its world as a structure made up of countless thoroughfares — those already at hand and those still to be created — on land, on water, in the air, and in the stratosphere. It races like a fever through all segments of the Nordic community, a fever of speed which, infectiously, reaches out far beyond the world of the north and attacks souls who are not Nordic and for whom, at bottom, such action is contrary to their style and senseless.
Take a guess. Of course, he was militantly opposed to smoking and a vegetarian, too.
[Via Althouse]
Thoughts On A Longer Life Span
…a million-year one. If we can’t come up with superluminal ships, this is probably the best solution for anyone who wants to see other star systems.
Productivity
90% of Internet users don’t know how to search a web page, or document. What else don’t they know?
Web Server Bleg
Geek Alert for this post.
I’m running a web server app on my computer, which I can address by http://localhost:8080/webapp, where “webapp” is the app.
It works fine, but in theory, I should be able to access it from another machine on the network via http://localhostIP:8080/webapp, where “localhostIP” is the IP address of my machine, but I can’t. It just times out.
I’ve even installed Apache on the machine, and I’ve set up a reverse proxy in the Apache config file per the following:
ProxyRequests On
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168
#Set up reverse proxy for Webapp server
ProxyPass /webapp/ http://localhost:8080/webapp/
ProxyPassReverse /webapp/ http://localhost:8080/webapp/
ProxyPreserveHost On
Again, where “webapp” is the actual webserver that I’m trying to access remotely.
When I try to access this from either a remote, or my local machine, by http://localhostIP/webapp, I get the message: “The requested URL /webapp was not found on this server.”
Any Apache gurus who can tell me what the problem might be? I’ve opened up firewall to both http and https.
[Update Friday morning]
Problem solved. As noted in comments, it was a combination of allowed ports and SELinux.
The Bloody Road To Safety
Bill Whittle’s latest Firewall is up. Yours truly is paraphrased.
Treat Every Firearm
…as though it’s loaded. A safety tip.
Is Your Network Safe?
Here’s an interesting article on cracking WPA. Bottom line, WEP is worthless for wireless security, and WPA is pretty good, if you use good passphrases and aren’t a high-value target.
Backslash
Some thoughts from Eugene Volokh. I didn’t know that people were confused on this issue. But it is irritating that Microsoft screwed things up with DOS (as they did many other things).
Restaurant Web Sites
Why are they so awful?
I suspect that some of them have the attitude with regard to posting their prices that, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
[Via Geek Press]