After Years of very little change, it looks like the squid proxy server development project is gaining momentum again.

Lookin at the squid-dev mailing list just now, it looks like there's both a new Squid 3 PRE release and a Squid 2.6 release planned for the near future. See the following threads:

Squid-3 release cycle (Fri May 05 2006 - 09:18:49 MDT)
2.6 beginning to take shape (Mon May 15 2006 - 21:17:35 MDT)

People might find this interesting if they've got a java compatible phone. Turns out mine is java compatible, using some standard called MIDP.

http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/download.php

To install I had to add the WAP url on that page to my download links, then go there and select the version I wanted.

I got it to go with the SSH1 Lite Build for MIDP 2.0.  Haven't had any luck with SSH2.

Trying to do command line stuff with a mobile phone keyboard is of course extremely tedious, and I don't expect to do a lot of it, but I suspect there will come a time when I have no other net access at hand and get an emergency call, and will be very glad to have that little app there.

OK, so it's not the most exiting way to start a blog, but....

 A while back I wrote an apache module to prevent IPs of web site users being recorded.  The module over-writes apache's information on remote IPs and hostnames before things like cgi and php get run, and well before logging occurs, making it look like all connections come from localhost (127.0.0.1).

A new version which works for Apache 2.0 is now available from:

http://conway.cat.org.au/~andrew/mod_removeip-0.2.tar.gz

This module does nothing untill you load it, and enable it with the only command it understands: