Archive for January, 2007
Tutorial: Setting Up An Ubuntu Web Server (Apache And PHP)
18 Comments Published January 16th, 2007 in Linux, SoftwareThis post is designed for those of you who have some experience working on webpages, but may not have a lot of background with actually setting up the webserver itself. Basically, if you want to setup a quick webserver (perhaps on a spare computer for testing), this will get things started. This will not tell [...]
I have finished the first of several books that I have to read for this quarter. The Outsiders is considered the classic book that started the Young Adult genre. A movie was also made about the story and stars quite a few “big name” people. I have not yet seen the movie, but it’s supposed [...]
The Coming Of The Coming Of The Information Age
2 Comments Published January 11th, 2007 in Cultural, Political, Small TalkBernie posted about the Future of History and brought up some very interesting points. I started to comment, but the comment grew and grew until I was forced to acknowledge that it was heading toward rambling, which really should be a category on my blog. That being said, I think we’re on a trail that [...]
Over the winter break, I thought it was bad enough that I had to buy 16 books for my three courses this quarter. Well, I had my first class this morning and that total has jumped to 21. It sounds like this workload will be a great excuse for updating the blog less… I may [...]
Sometimes it seems like everyone has a different opinion on something, and the best function for comparing simple strings in PHP is one of those things. The four primary ways are ereg(), preg_match(), strstr(), and strpos(). For a simple comparison, any of these will work, but, once you start doing a great deal of string [...]

