Category: Rants

Apache mod_proxy

I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.
I will never activate mod_proxy without double-checking the installation is secured.

How?

Real simple, just set-up “ProxyRequests Off” on the main server config, and if you want to be extra safe (like double condom usage) in the first virtualhost (by IP address) put “ProxyBlock *”

So help me the sysadmins Gods.

(semi) Victorious

Last Friday (finally, 8 months after the accident) i received the court decision about the process against Allianz Seguros SA. I had to sue them in CIMPAS, an arbitration court, about a road accident, where i was hit and run by i an Allianz insured shit bag (pardon… driver) and they didn’t want to willingly pay the damages.

So, the outcome was very positive, it was proved in court that all responsibility is due to Allianz Seguros SA, so all the physical damages to the car are well covered, but i was only given 30 euro a day for the 3 days the car must be in the repair shop, which is very little to cover a substitution car. Also the judge didn’t order Allianz Seguros to pay the vehicle technical inspections (mot, tuv, etc) and re-inspections simply because he didn’t quite understand that i had to do it so i didn’t get fined by the police…. i think that he doesn’t quite understands the mechanics of technical inspections time frame, maybe he gets a new car every 3 years… if this is the new justice, i really can’t imagine how the old justice works…

Anyway, after all said and done, this is a financial and moral victory against an evil corporation (Allianz Seguros) that is profit centered only, and treats persons like numbers, that uses all the dirty tricks in the book to avoid paying. But, and it seems there is always a but, i will never get the right compensation for all the headaches of this situation, and these companies will continue to behave the same, just because they can, because the justice here is too soft with them.

More about this issue later…

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

The marketing advantage of young people

I was listening Deolinda’s song “Parva que Sou”,  very buzzed nowadays due to the strong lyrics about the lack of opportunities given to the young people, and found myself thinking what a piece of crap….  Why? To start the melody is non-existent, and the so called “strong” lyrics are pathetic.

Is plain pathetic to say young people can’t get good jobs, because they are all already taken, and they can’t start their own business because they have no capital, and the lack of capital trows them to poorly paid jobs, which just creates a perpetual loop. So, this is an unfair world and the poor young guy is always with the lower hand. Right? Wrong.

There are so many advantages to the young people… but in this post i would like to highlight the marketing advantages. One can legitimately ask, if a young entrepreneur has little to no money stock, what is the advantage to the established players with much more cash flow to invest in marketing and advertising? Is pretty simple, they can do it better with much less money. How? Exploring the potential of guerrilla marketing to their own profit. The new technologies, the new communication medias, the new languages. They rule the Internet inside out, the websites, the social networks, the blogs, the forums, the chats, the new mobile medias. They know what is cool, what is uncool. What a great marketing advantage that is.

So, i really don’t know about you, but i sure have my own plans to keep “young” as long as i can, keep up with the upcoming medias and technologies so i can take on the “old” guys who do business the same as they did twenty years ago.

PS – and of course, the song who made me think about this, well… i can’t identify me less with it

Eye protection goggles

I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).
I will always wear my eye protection goggles when doing in hazardous work (even for short time).

So help me God.

European first aid training course

Just finished last week a first aid training course at Portuguese Red Cross. It’s a 12h course with a hands on approach, on subjects like burns, bleedings, choking, victim transportation, getting help, bonds, cpr, and so on. This is a very usefull course, with (in)formation that can make a real difference in some emergency situations in someone’s (can be yourself) life and/or life quality.

The question is: Why in 12 years of mandatory school you actually don’t learn anything about this issue?

You have to learn so many useless stuff – best regards to my History teacher and the Barbarians invasion for example – and this knowledge is kept out of the formal educational system.