Marc Perkel Rantz

The Sacred Joke of the church of Reality

There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary numbers - and those who don't.

(If you don't get it - do the research!)

The Principle of Curiosity, Exploration, and Imagination

New Sacred Principle of the Church of Reality

The Principle of Curiosity, Exploration, and Imagination is the quest for true knowledge. It represents our desire to move forward both individually and collectively. We are a curious church and we want to know how everything works. We want to explore the universe from galaxies to subatomic particles. We want to think about thinking, to understand understanding and to know reality as it really is.

We are people of vision. We dream of great things and actively move to make it happen. We are people who have the "Vision Thing" and who combine our wisdom and imagination with realistic thinking to lead the world to a better tomorrow.

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I'm now up to 16 Sacred Principles which is 10 in Hexadecimal!

Apache 2.0 a lot faster than Apache 1.3

I just upgraded my web server last week to the new Redhat Fedora Linux from Redhat 7.3. It was a very interesting upgrade. I had at first devised a way to do the upgrade without shutting the server down and it almost worked. If not for Python and PHP getting screwed up it would have been amazing.

I download an upgrade package called Yum and managed to change operating systems without rebooting and without shuttiing the server down. And all this from remote! Try that with Windows!

But because these two applications failed to work I ended up wiping the drive and reinstalling from scratch. Fortunately I keep two drives in the server so I have the ability to undo what I screw up.

The server is far faster than it used to be. I'm hosting about 75 sites and the load was climbing up there during some parts of the day. Now it's running about 1/10 the load levels it used to. I give the credit to Apache 2.0.

Apache 2.0 is great once you get it working - but - getting it working isn't real easy. There are a lot of differences - especially with the directive and it's enough to drive you nuts. Basically you have to specify the IP address and the Port on each entry. But - it was worth it.

I'm also looking forward to installing the 2.6 kernel. I had it running for a while - but it breaks a couple of apps so I'm going to wait a while on that one.