EuphLine

The so-called "snowpocalypse" is here, and ... it's living up to many expectations. About 14-15" on the sidewalk at 7:30 this morning. The sidewalk was pretty heavily treated when this all started, so it was the last to accumulate snow. The middle of the yard is probably 2-3" higher, at least.

I recently needed to install Freeswitch for a singular reason: to register to another server when a SIP client registered to it. (What I call "register on register"). As I went, I decided to document the process of installing and configuring.

Having gotten sick and tired of receiving error messages like this:

I decided to solve the problem once and for all. We use puppet to manage machines, so this should be - and is - straight forward.

/etc/puppet/modules/locales/files/locales.gen:

#
# /etc/locales.gen
#
# managed by puppet
#

When the state initially deregulated the electricity market, I had little use for it. It wasn't that I loved our monopoly provider, BGE, it was more that I really didn't believe I would benefit from deregulation. A year or two ago, I finally found a benefit: Pepco Energy Services offered to sell me 100% wind power at at premium over the price of regular power. (For what it's worth, BGE's supply is, I believe, coal and nuclear).

It's common to want to add "www" to a domain name, so that users typing in the "non-www" domain name, will get to the right site. It's important to implement this with a 301 redirect so that search engines recognize that there is only one true and real site.

The traditional way to do this is:

Every few years since the dawn of time ... okay ... so perhaps since the late 90's, I've started euphline.com anew, from scratch. Each time, I've moved to a different content management scheme, and pretty much replaced all of the content. This time, it's on Drupal 6, running the Domain Access module, as part of a family of sites including ejTown and Elizabeth's Books.

The Associated Press reports that the House bill, designed to delay the digital tv switchover failed to pass.  Reuters reports it passed.  I love it when that happens! AP: "The House has defeated a bill to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12." Reuters: "The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to delay

While the Whitehouse, the Post, and the Times report on Geithner's efforts to limit lobbying for bailout money, Politico notes Geithner has just hired a lobbiest as his Chief of Staff.  I

Given the economy, increased crime is to be expected.  The Monitor writes about community patrols springing up in response.  In my Baltimore neighborhood, both the Northwest Citizens Patrol and Shomrim keeps a watch on things.  When well organized and managed, it can make a significant impact.  Of course, I'm curious why we have two groups, rather than one.

When I think of polio, of think of my paternal grandfather, whose face had partial paralysis.  It always made it easy to tell him apart from his twin brother.  I don't think of it as a problem of "my generation."  Imagine my surprise to hear that, lead by the Gates Foundation with $255 million dollars, an additional $635 million will be spent over the next five years towards its erradication.  This is discussed in more length in the Washington Post and