Imagine living in a world where the critics of a medical practice are silenced when speaking out about its scientific merit and potential risks. As it turns out, there is no need to imagine this world, because you’re living in it. The scientific process is what gives western medicine the ability to progress, adapt, and [...]

That’s right, Project DoD Inc. has achieved its financial goals for 2009.  We would like to thank everyone who generously donated, even in this tough economy.  Rest assured that your donations are being put to good use.   Not only have we completed our 12th year of service to the community, but we [...]

We just updated the dod.net wildcard certs for  subdomains (e.g. foobar.dod.net), IRC, account manager, and the rest of our web content.  It costs us $600.00 a year, so please enjoy your collective SSL.

It’s getting bad out there.  Over the last year many of Project DoD’s new users have been refugees from hosting providers that caved to DMCA takedown notices.  These people are not given the chance to respond with a counter notice — a provision of the DMCA that let’s one challenge the claim — and with [...]

Project DoD’s old hosting contract has expired and our hosting expenses have just gone up. We used to pay: $50.00 a month per U $40.00 a month per 1Mbit and now, starting August, we’ll be paying: $75.00 a month per U $50.00 a month per 1Mbit With a 2U server and 2Mbit usage, our monthly hosting expenses will go from [...]

We wanted to thank Shawn Boyle for setting up irc.dod.net and our chat page. For a while now Shawn has been managing the Project DoD ventrilo server, and when we started talking about running a FreeNode IRC server, he stepped right up. When we never heard back from the FreeNode folks Shawn setup [...]

It’s time for new hardware. Once again we have pushed our current hardware well beyond its warranty or any reasonable meantime to failure. We are out of memory constantly, we are out of CPU frequently, and we are seeing I/O storms that bring the box to its knees. If none of this [...]

We wanted to extend a thank you to Dave Rawks for helping us with our Nagios monitoring. Nagios is an highly configurable enterprise-class monitoring service that puts our old Perl scripts to shame. Nevertheless, it’s non-trivial to configure, and even the documentation warns that Nagios is not for the weak at heart. [...]

Upon request we’ve installed the rsync binaries on Project DoD’s servers. We are not, however, running an rsync daemon.

We’ve been working very hard at finishing our donation system so that it does everything we ever wanted it to. There has been lots of behind-the-scenes work on restructuring our user databases so that the idea of a “doduser” is separate from a “user”. The former being a login account that allows people [...]