Archive for July, 2006

mod_log_rotate updated

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

I’ve just added the most requested feature to mod_log_rotate - the ability to specify a strftime() format string as the log file name. So now you can do something like

CustomLog logs/access_log.%Y%m%d-%H%M%S common

and have log files named with a human readable date and time. The source for both Apache 1.3 and Apache 2 (and 2.2) versions here. Steffan at apachelounge.com has made a Win32 binary available here: apachelounge.com/download.

The Prompt of Doom

Friday, July 7th, 2006

It’s not just me then:

You know the one I mean; when you visit some site that you haven’t been to for a while, long enough that you’ve changed browsers or something expired, and it asks you for your your username and password and you don’t have the vaguest idea, so you guess, and the browser says “Remember this username/password?” I always get a sinking sensation, knowing that my immediate future probably contains email confirmations (which will probably end up in the spambucket) and half-forgotten password (is the answer case-sensitive or not?) hints. I confess to rankly superstitious behavior, telling the browser “No, don’t remember it.” in the hopes that the general orneriness of things will cause me to guess right. I know some Internet Identity gurus, and they say “It’s about so much more than single sign-on”, but dammit, do I ever want single sign-on; and I can’t be the only one.

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