I’m becoming increasingly convinced that PAM is far more important than it is usually treated. It seems like more reading on how to leverage PAM to increase security would be wise for any GNU/Linux system administrator. I came across Been Cracked? Just Put PAM On It! and found it to be a good guide.

There are at least 4 feeds I'd like to be importing into this site but cannot because they are Atom feeds which the Drupal Aggregator module does not support. So it looks like if I want to have that functionality I'll have to switch to another module.

Xen (or any emulation virtualization technology)
Pro: Difficult to overcommit memory
Con: Requires more memory

Linux-VServers (or any OS-level virtualization technology)
Pro: Requires less memory
Con: Trivial to overcommit memory

Wanted to fix the site search today and found the problem was database permissions. To fix I just granted the necessary permissions. Of course, I could only do that because I have access to the root MySQL account. Other Drupal sites on shared web hosting accounts might have to come up with other solutions. I’ve listed a few of these below.

And I had just finished burning some copies of 4.0r1 (onto rewritable discs so they'll be reused). Still I'm happy to have a new version with updated and more secure software included. It also means that people should update their Debian Etch systems as I have been doing the last couple of days. It's also worth reading the Deabin 4.0r2 Release Announcement for an overview of the changes and the Debian 4.0 (Etch) changelog for specific details.

You really can't go wrong with an illusion titled 'The Purple Nurple' What seems interesting to me is that the motion speed seems correlated with the speed of eye tracking. If I focus on any one point the motion will slow and even stop but moving my eyes will accelerate the motion. Weird.