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If you've driven the highways between Southern Maine and Newburyport MA, you've seen me. I was the guy driving the pimped out '96 GEO Prizm.

This luxury sedan featured such fine amenities as:

• 4 wheels
• 2 hub caps
• 1 headlight
• 1/2 of a front bumper
• Restrictor plates (aka horrid shaking) to keep me under 65mph

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Many people ask me, "Hey Christian, what video games do you play?" They look at me in my glasses, see that I own a computer with blue LEDs in it and just assume that I'm huge into cutting edge games. Read More

Ever since man tamed and mounted his first steed (the woolly mammoth, unless I'm much mistaken) we've had an excuse not to walk to work - not that we needed one.

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A growing company in the field of cryptographic security, nCipher's broad product line had outgrown its old web site, which no longer represented its businesses or product lines effectively.


iMarc and nCipher worked together to create a new site built on a sophisticated, database-driven framework that makes it easy to add, edit, and remove pages.


Visit the site at www.ncipher.com

With iMarc's SiteManager, nCipher can create product pages, manage partner profiles, and create resources of all types, from white papers to security advisories to Flash-based product demos. News, events, press coverage and job listings are also easily managed by nCipher through a series of simple web forms.

The site's radical new visual design makes a powerful impact while easing navigation. iMarc extended nCipher's existing corporate style to a high-impact web interface. All future additions to the site automatically preserve appropriate branding and formatting, allowing the site can grow, without redesign costs.

Ever look at one of your co-workers and say to yourself "Aw Damn...if only Bill was a dirty old woman I'd be all over that"..?
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OK- So in celebration of that thought, I decided to put Photoshop to work on Lead Developer Bill Bushee's mug. Bill surprisingly volunteered himself for this age and gender transformation with no strings attached - Weird, yes, but we salute Bill for wearing the bra. Read More

A great little video has been making the rounds lately... Read More

Part 2 of 3 / Software

Earlier this week we installed FreeBSD. Now we'll install some software to host your own website(s).

This document assumes:

• FreeBSD is already installed
• you have SSH access to the server
• you've create a system user named, 'web', running the csh shell
• your home directory is /home/web
• you have root access; root also runs csh
• your comfortable with commandline text edits using VI or VIM

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(Part 1 of 2)

Let's cut the to chase: The web is a 1960's era IBM mainframe, and it sucks.

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Part 1 of 3 / Install FreeBSD

Setting up and running a Unix web server is surprisingly easy. Recently, on del.icio.us, I ran across the article Become Your Own Web Host in 75 Steps. Without too much explanation, the article describes how to install FreeBSD, MySQL, PHP, and Apache. Hopefully the following series will expand on that article and go a little deeper.

We will be installing:

• FreeBSD (STABLE)
• MySQL
• Apache
• PHP
• and some other apps helpful to webmasters

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