There are a lot of boring people on the Internet. A significant percentage of these boring people make a concerted effort to try to be interesting, and a significant percentage of this bunch of folks makes cheesy pseudo-offbeat Web pages revering the Spork. Well, in my opinion, sporks suck: using one, you can't get a mouthful of salad or a mouthful of soup. Boring people suck. Boring people who strain to be interesting really suck.

I fiddled around with building Apache with Dynamic Shared Object support. I want to be able to update and add modules without having to recompile the entire server, but it seems DSO adds some complexity of its own. Besides, there is a minor loss of speed with DSO, and this server is none too fast to begin with. So I think I'm going to skip DSO, simply record all the compile-type options I use, keep the source trees around after compiling, and recompile everything on the rare occasions that a change needs to be made. Yes, Virginia, there are still some modules I need to add. I'm getting to it.

I also took a first stab at building OpenLDAP. It'll probably require a second stab, after I read the documentation and figure out what I need it to do! Then PHP will have to be recompiled yet again, and therefore the entire Apache server as well. The flexibility of Unix software gives the user great power, but it also requires a little effort, and I am pretty tired right now. I'll carpe tomorrow when it gets here.