Notes In The Margin » apache

In George R R Martin’s books “A Song of Fire and Ice” (which you may know by the name “A Game of Thrones”), the people of Braavos, have a saying – “Valar Morghulis” – which mean...

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Event Report, ApacheCon North America 2017 May 15-19, 2017 (This is an abridged version of the report I sent to my manager.) Last week I attended ApacheCon North America in Miami. I am the confer...

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This is the lightning talk I gave this evening at ApacheCon:  ApacheCon is a high point of my year, every year, going back to March of 2000. In late 1999, Ken Coar told me I should submit a talk...

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Today, the ASF received yet another complaint from a distraught individual who had, in their opinion, received spam from the Apache Software Foundation. This time, via our Facebook page. As alway...

https://drbacchus.com/no-apache-did-not-send-you-spam/

This time last year, I was nominated for the Apache Board of Directors, and I wasn’t very keen on it. I was on the down-swing of getting burned out with ASF stuff, which comes every few years o...

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I’ve had a very frustrating set of interactions over the last 3 days, on an open source community mailing list. Doesn’t matter which one, because I think that these things are universal. I sa...

https://drbacchus.com/living-in-community-curbing-your-passion/

A colleague is attending the nginx conference in Austin this week, and shared with me several anecdotes in which a speaker preached misinformation – or if I want to be generous, grievously o...

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If you have a textfile password file, and you want to convert it to a dbm database for use with mod_authn_dbm, this can be done as follows: htdbm -cbp passwords.dbm bogus bogus awk ‘BEGIN { FS=...

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On Wednesday morning I learned that my long-time friend Nóirín Plunkett has just suddenly passed away. Update: It’s been mentioned that Nóirín stated, on their Twitter profile, a prefere...

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This week we did ApacheCon in Austin. I shipped the original Apache feather to the venue for 20th birthday of the Apache web server project, and it hung above the stage for the keynotes. It’s a...

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