Wow! What a weekend! We had a great time again this year, no surprise. It’s always great to be able to hang out with all your friends and all you linux folk and TechShow listeners are my friends! My thoughts are still a bit disjointed from the weekend so here are some random notes about […]
Last night I finally finished cutting all my server services to their new residence on Pukwudgie (my spectacular CentOS 5.3 based server VM). I turned off my old Thinkpad server, which has been doing the job reliably for over 2 years, rebooted pukwudgie just to make sure everything starts up correctly unattended and that was […]
Lately, I have been slowly migrating my server services from my ancient Thinkpad server to a VM on some real server hardware. This has been an arduous process, mostly because this is my own personal server, which means I am #1 strapped for time, #2 deprived of ambition when home and #3 insanely paranoid about […]
What is a personal IMAP mail server and why would you want one? Well, such a server is, like it sounds, your very own mail server that you can access via IMAP. You might want such a thing because, like me, you have a lot of different email accounts in different places and you want […]
Late last ‘week I noticed that my new nagios server was not responding anymore. Well, I checked it and it was down. Not only that, it was a vm on my test server and the entire server was down as well. Arrrgh. Usually I use this as a foray to tell you all to remember […]
I finally caved over the weekend and bought a new mp3 player. It has been a LONG time since I bought one, in fact the newest one I had was a one gb player (a _few_ years old). I have been listening to my tunes portably on my Nokia N800, but that is a pain […]
I always push VMWare because I use it a *LOT* and believe it to be a superior product. My friend Dann was no exception. When it came time for him to get a new server I suggested he could do several virtual machines on one good physical box and save his resources. He did the […]
Here’s one for the book…: I have a script that monitors a process and I want it to email my cellphone (to page me) if things don’t look just right. The problem is that just using “mail” or “mailx” in a script fails because my carrier divines whether or not my return address is real. […]
So here I am with this beautiful Macbook. A Macbook 5,2 as a matter of fact. My original intentions were to put Linux on this kickin’ machine, but, as it happens, I have procrastinated until now. I looked around a bit and read through several sets of documentation on how to get things going on […]