Month: July 2002

It’s about people

Dave Farquhar Christianity

I’ve been thinking about my mission trip again. I guess that shouldn’t surprise anyone, since I spent six hours yesterday poring over videotape we shot while we were down there. And yeah, I still think it was the best week of my life. But I’m a little disappointed in the leadership.
The leadership’s focus was on prophecy. That makes me uncomfortable.

Don’t get me wrong. It was the best week of my life, and our leadership definitely played a big, indispensable role. But prophecy had nothing to do with it. Read more

Who do you trust the least?

Dave Farquhar Society

Last Updated on September 30, 2010 by Dave Farquhar

A subhead I saw on Wired News:
The case of sex.com is slated to go before a federal appeals court, which will hear arguments from an accused con man, a porn-site operator and the largest domain-name registry [Verisign].

Quick: Which of these three is the most dishonest?

The lawyers have to be loving this one, because they’re absolutely guaranteed not to be the most hated people in the courtroom.

The coolest thing that happened to me, personally, in Belle Glade

Dave Farquhar Christianity

Last Updated on September 30, 2010 by Dave Farquhar

A group of us was prayer walking–walking the streets, talking to people as we see them and offering to pray for them, and praying for situations as we saw them–when we came upon a church.
In Belle Glade, everyone believes in God, but not a lot of people go to church. So when we came upon a small church, our pastor suggested we stop and pray for the church, its pastor, and its staff.

When we finished, someone was watching us. Read more

Update your BIND servers

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Last Updated on September 5, 2019 by Dave Farquhar

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a large number of versions of BIND. CERT released an advisory over the weekend. I haven’t seen this on most news sites yet. Read more

An easy way to get Debian 3.0 before you can buy it

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Last Updated on April 17, 2017 by Dave Farquhar

Debian 3.0 hasn’t officially been released yet, but that hasn’t stopped people from making unofficial installation floppies and CDs.
I just built a Debian 3.0 system that will be hosting this site and another (I’m not going to talk yet about the other site, but it won’t be hosted by R. Collins Farquhar IV–do I hear cheers?–and it won’t be fiction). I used this 185 MB CD image to do the install. The system used up a whopping 88 megs when I finished initial installation. After I installed Apache, MySQL and PHP4 to make a usable web server, disk usage rocketed to 118 megs. Not shabby at all in this era of multi-gigabyte installs. Read more