Aaron Parecki

I spent about an hour bashing my head against a wall with this one.

I didn't realize it before, but the subversion server running without tunneling over ssh doesn't actually send the password in the clear when authenticating users. From the subversion book:

I was just reading this webpage about shell scripting, and discovered that you can get a lot of information about your cpu and memory from the command line.

I'm reconfiguring my RAID 5 array in one of my servers (called malachite), and having some problems doing so.

This was a problem done in my CIS 315 Algorithms class in Spring 2006.

First, I downloaded the Majordomo source code from here. Following the instructions in the included INSTALL file, I was able to get Majordomo installed relatively quickly. I ran into problems when I started trying to actually send email to the new list. The first problem I ran into was that sendmail wasn't started, but that was just silly.

My VPS was restarted yesterday, and apparently Apache wasn't shut down gracefully. I tried to go to my website, but Apache wasn't running. I SSH'd into my machine to restart apache. I typed

The other day I decided to set up my iBook so that I can do web development on it.

I just found the TeX plugin for Serendipity (s9y.org). It lets you draw cool math symbols like

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This German radio program was a group project of Aaron Parecki, Joel Young, Kirsten Arbogast, Jude Kirstein, and Viktoria Wenslöw during a German 311 course at the University of Oregon. We had a great time putting it together and presenting it, so I figured it deserved a place on the Internet. You can listen to the whole thing here.