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NY Times Profiles Power Saw Drag Racing; Look Out, Baseball! [Sports]: ”


 Today, the New York Times took a close look at the fast-paced world of power tool drag racing. The inherent fun of placing lightly modified power tools on the ground and watching them tear off down the street was not lost on them, apparently. Will attention from such a big publication make power tool drag racing a more mainstream sport? One can only hope. The Times even links to all sorts of how-to’s from sites like Instructables and Make. Get on board now, before ESPN ruins it! [NY Times]

Quick, its download day! Head on over and help set the world record for the most downloads in 24 hours:

Version 1.0.3 adds php5 support. For more information, check out the DNS-Control page.

I was messing around with merb the other day and wrote a quick app to check to see if your ssh key has been compromised due to the vulnerability found in the openssl package on Debian/Ubuntu. All you due is search for your ssh key fingerprint. All you need to do is fire up a terminal/shell and type:

ssh-keygen -l -f .ssh/id_rsa.pub # put the path to your ssh key

It should come back with something like

00:00:5b:35:76:4e:0b:24:01:a9:dc:bc:a5:b6:b6:b5

Just search for that and it will let you know if your key is compromised. Link to app: SSH Key Lookup

Lately, I have had a few people contact me about making changes to dns control. So i decided to license it under the MIT License and uploaded it to github.

http://github.com/jmazzi/dns-control

If you are interested in making changes, just create a fork and submit the patches through github. It makes it really easy. Check out this guide for help:

http://github.com/guides/fork-a-project-and-submit-your-modifications

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Ok, I setup lighttpd on my machine and found out lighttpd can’t handle some mod_rewrite directives (used with permalinks). Specifically, sending a request to index.php if a file couldn’t be found. Here is an easy work around. First, you need to make sure your current theme has a 404 page. Goto Presentation->Theme Editor and see if you have a template called “404 template”. If you don’t, just copy wp-content/themes/default/404.php to your theme directory:

cp wp-content/themes/default/404.php wp-content/themes/YOUR_THEME

Then edit the 404 template file and add:

< ?php header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found"); ?>

at the top of the script. This is so pages that are not found actually send 404 response headers. This is important for search engine bots like google.

After that, edit lighttpd. You just need this line in your virtual host:

server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php"

Thats it. Let me know if you have any issues with this.

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Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of working with ruby on rails professionally. It’s been a lot of fun. The development process has been cut in half for the apps I have written. It has also been easier to maintain. How does this apply to DNS Control? I’m glad you asked! DNS Control 2.0 will be written entirely in ruby on rails. Right now, I am just planning things out. If you interested in helping, feel free to send me an at . Stay tuned for updates!

I can’t tell you how many times I have been out somewhere and have had an idea that just faded away because I didnt take the time to leave myself a reminder (how often do you have a pen handy?). Now we have BrainCast. When I think of something I need to get done, I take my cellphone out of my pocket, hit a few buttons, and presto! Now I can remember everything.

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