I really like how Apple has taken to the dark side, supporting DRM as seen by their crippling of DTrace and the QuickTime update that disables video editing apps. I guess this gives me more reason to avoid switching to OS X and replacing my aging laptop with a MacBook.

I lately had an issue where I had a Web service running on a port other than 80 and obviously I couldn't have 2 daemons listening on port 80. So, I came up with a nice little alternative: Create a subdomain and configure lighttpd to proxy the traffic. An extra perk to it is that since the domain has a wildcard SSL certificate installed, the subproxy can share in the SSL goodness without any extra configuraion.

Yesterday, I got my OpenSolaris Starter Kit. The artwork is great and the discs themselves are pretty cool. I probably won't be switching to OpenSolaris any time soon, but I'll probably continue to play with it.

I found it useful to create /etc/hosts files on my LAN using zone-transfers from the local DNS server. It's a pretty simple method and works fine...