http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:50:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay people (assuming more than one person actually reads this blog), it's geek time again.  I recently had to setup a Fedora 13 based PHP server that needed to talk to an Oracle database and frankly had a tough time with it.  I was able to get it working though ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=62 Here's a headline from today's New York Times: Bernanke Signals Fed is Ready to Prop Up Economy I love that!  I wanted to add a few more: Mafia Boss Ready to Administer Humanitarian Aid Enron Executives Named Heads of SEC Mark McGuire to Investigate Steroid Use in Baseball Bill Gates Book Details Struggles of Living in ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=61 Okay, so I heard that there's this massive famine in Niger in Africa...that thousands are starving.  It's one of the worst famines in recent history.  The story was on the radio on NPR.  But I go to CNN and there's a top story of "Teen's Peace Mission to North Korea" ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=59 Point 1: If the healthcare bill passes, it's likely that more people in the USA will work for the federal government than any other employer in the country.  If that happens, how likely do you think getting representatives elected that want to ACTUALLY reduce the size of government is going to ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=58 Man, do I feel better.  I was all prepared for the world to end because, you know, this H1N1 flu thing was going to kill us all.  I mean, the government and the health care industry told me that if I didn't vaccinate myself and my family with this new ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=57 So Massachusetts elected a Republican to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate, thus providing the Republicans with enough seats to filibuster.  Oh, and Kool-Aid drinkers across the country are just giddy.  Typically liberal Mass has put a Republican in the Senate!  The tide is turning on Obama! Hang on a second.  ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=56 Santa spreads some Christmas cheer! http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=55 Healthcare reform.  Cap and trade.  Afghanistan.  Iraq.  The economy.  Etc, etc, etc. Are you following these issues closely?  If so, you're like so many others who are, at least in my opinion, ignoring the one singular issue that ties it all together - The Federal Reserve and monetary policy. Yes it's a ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=54 A Facebook friend of mine recently posted a short commentary that was posted on Salon.com which cleverly and satirically calls out conservatives on their positions against government run healthcare.  You can read the article here.  This posting is very clever and the sense of irony it creates is certainly an ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=53 If you know me, you might know that I'm a nerd.  I love Linux and use it for all my servers at home.  Debian is my flavor of choice.  For a long time now I've wanted to convert my laptop to Linux but have never felt like it was a ... http://www.chipperfarley.net/blog/?p=52