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The Pirate Party

Thu, 05/17/2012 - 19:59 -- matuck

The world is ready for change!  There are different movements staring up around the world. People are tired of getting the same thing from their governments.  The Pirate Party while not new itself is fairly new to Georgia and The United States.  What is The Pirate Party?  Today I want to talk about the three planks (core values), The Pirate Party in The United States and Georgia, and The Pirate Party around the world.

Encrypt your Gmail

Sat, 04/14/2012 - 06:08 -- matuck

Email has become a daily tool in most of our lives.  The problem is email is really open.  Someone can pretend to be you, and send an email as you.  Others can read your email as its being sent.  Whats the solution encryption and/or signing your email.  Encrypting your email in Gmail is not that easy it would require lots of copy and pasting.  Today we are gonna setup a few tools that will make this much easier for you.


Step one is to install GNUPG

The Hunger Games

Tue, 03/27/2012 - 00:08 -- matuck

This is an excellent series.  I couldn't wait to turn the page, and see what was going to happen next.  The series is set after the world has all but destroyed itself.  The county of Panem has come into existence.  Panem is made up of the Capital and 12 districts(at one time there was 13 districts).  The capital treats the other districts as slave labor.  The districts rebel 74 years ago.  Because the districts rebelled there is a competition called The Hunger Games.  The Hunger Games is a fight to the death.  The competitors are chosen from the districts(the capital is exempt).

New Year's Resolution 2012

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:25 -- matuck

I generally hate new years resolutions, because such a high failure rate, but I am actually going to make one this year. My resolution this year is to loose 50 pounds. I will use the scales at work so I do not have an official weight in. I am gonna set sub goals of 5 pounds a month. I think I can do better than this considering I have about 100 lbs to loose; however, I want to keep the goal easily reachable. Hopefully by keeping it easily reachable I can stick with it. Wish luck and I will try and post at least once a week to keep up with my progress.

Inheritance

Sun, 11/27/2011 - 20:27 -- matuck

What a good story. I'm sad that I just finished the last book. The book definately took some twists I wasn't quite expecting. I just whats gonna happen to Alagaesia now that Eragon has left. I wonder if Murtaugh will come back. This definately has me hoping he writes a sequel series. Its hard to believe this guy is so young. I definately recommend this book as well as the rest of the series. Its a good read.

Apache Reverse Proxy

Thu, 11/03/2011 - 10:53 -- matuck

I was running squid proxy but was having some issues with ips not reporting properly on websites and yes I made sure x-forward-for was on.. I decided to go with apache reverse proxy since my main webserver was already running apache. I had a little trouble finding out how to setup a name based virtual setup. Below is how I set mine up hope it helps someone else.

First we need to enable the proxy modules

New Baby On the Way

Thu, 11/03/2011 - 09:18 -- matuck

So about a week ago we found out Bridget is pregnant again. We are all really excited. Today Bridget had her first doctors appointment. She is at 5 weeks and 5 days. The babies due date is June 29th. We have already started picking out names, but we have decided to keep it a secret until the baby is born. I can't wait to find out if its going to be a boy or a girl; however, Bridget wants to wait and be suprised. I don't know if I can wait the full 9 months until I know. I don't guess it really matters I will be happy either way.

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Political Views and Rant

Sat, 10/15/2011 - 11:52 -- matuck

With everything going on in the world today; I have been giving great thought to my political views. At one point I would have told you that I was a convervative, but with things going the way they are I have come to realize that I probably align more with liberal views. I still have some conservative views though. Frankly I have got to the point where I am completely fed up with politics. There is to much money and greed in politics and it has to stop.

Dual Master MySQL replicating servers

Fri, 10/14/2011 - 09:30 -- matuck

Your MySQL box pulling to much load? How do you keep the data insync? There are a couple of methods to do this. One is to do read/write spliting. The drawback to this method is your application has to be aware. Your app would have to send the writes to one database and the reads to another database. You could also use mysql proxy. MySQL proxy can split the reads and writes for you, but you have to write some scripts to tell it how to do the splitting. The method I chose was to replicate my databases but then you could have conflicts.

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