Today was install day at work. There comes a period when I take intense pleasure installing programs. I installed Webmin and PHP with Oracle and MySql support on the live machine.

Webmin is a graphical (web based) administration tool for Linux. I'm sure Linux hardcore administrators and our ex-security guy wouldn't be proud users of such tools, but run them whenever nobody is looking. Although I believe in the power of the command line, I must admit that I was amazed by the power and features Webmin provides. Basically all aspects of the operating system can be controlled via a web interface from anywhere. Webmin is essentially a series of perl scripts. It also has its own http server which must be run on any non usable port (default is 10000). I am a little bit hesitant installing such a system on an actual web server accessible through internet since I'm not well versant in the security issues involved with the project. I intend to test it on the intranet though. Anybody who ever touched a Linux box should at least know that such facilities exist.

I had some interesting discussions today with my planet trotter pal. The topic at hand was language evolution. Even though I was always aware that language evolution existed, I never met the term before. This topic definitely deserves more research.