Long Pause ssh-ing to Ubuntu Hardy

I just installed Hardy Heron on a webserver and found ssh over the LAN paused for a long time after connecting and before asking for the password (or connecting with ssh key).
The problem is some kind of reverse DNS lookup that doesn’t work on the LAN. After some digging and going down some blind [...]

Posted on 2008.06.28 | no comments; | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

String Representation of XML Objects in PHP

There’s got to be an easier way to do this.
Perhaps I am unsophisticated. But sometimes when I am debugging I just want to print strings to see what is going on. When working with PHP’s DOM XML stuff, this is difficult. var_dump and print_r don’t do what I’d like. What I [...]

Posted on 2008.04.28 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Programming | read on

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