Today was one of those kick-ass days that went by in a whirlwind. I had a discrete math test at 9:30 this morning and I think I did really well on it. It seemed only slightly harder than his last … Continue reading
How many engineers does it take to design a toilet paper holder? You wouldn’t think such a seemingly simple device would be difficult, but it’s apparently impossible. Think about it: when you go to a public restroom and there’s the … Continue reading
What was this /private/etc/httpd/users/sarah.conf that it was talking about? I had never created this file. I checked and it certainly existed. It also had an Options line without ExecCGI–bingo! I simply removed the file because it was just redefining what I had already specified in httpd.conf for Users/*/Site directories (shown above). I then restarted Apache and voila, my scripts worked. Continue reading
Work has been going all right. I’m converting over an old Perl web interface to Rails. It seems so crazy to write a Perl web interface for a MySQL backend from scratch; the guy didn’t use any kind of framework. … Continue reading
Classes have started again for the spring semester and I’m off my co-op, so I’m back in full-time classes. I do have to pay the bills, though, so I’m working for one of my professors. He called it “undergraduate research,” … Continue reading