Nix Bits

I’ve been wrestling with a problem at work along with our vendor. We have a product on Win2K Advanced Server that kept blowing up during the install very earlier in the process. Some DLL call in Installshield was mailformatted in some fashion but we couldn’t find why or what. We kept re-installing […]

Installed Squirrelmail today for the company. I first used ApacheToolBox to build and install Apache with php4, SSL support, and even IMAP. I’ve used that a few times and this is the first time I had a build go with so little trouble. The only thing I had to do was install […]

Well I rolled out NOLUG for beta test today (temporarily at http://www.nolug.org/postnuke/html. All comments have been complementary so far. It’d be nice to see NOLUG get moving again. I even impressed myself with the site actually. I managed to get a static content plugin installed for meeting documents archive as well […]

I use Blosxom to run this here blog. It’s simple to set up and does everything I need. And it also means I can write entries in a text editor “like God intended”. I looked at some of the various blog services but those didn’t interest me. I have an apache […]

Pics from this year’s Barkus parade are up. Barkus is a parade just for dogs benefitting the Louisiana SPCA. There are 1500 dogs in the parade. It is enormous and great fun. We had beautiful weather and enjoyed dressing up as Elvis and his Memphis Mafia to complent the parade’s “TailHouse […]

Well, if for no other reason, everyone else is
blogging (I really hate that term, actually). Actually I really needed a home
for some documentation notes for myself. I’ve always kept little README files
around noting changes I’ve made and things I discovered but it’s really better
to have them in one place like this.

Of course […]

“I find your lack of clue disturbing”
(Think Darth Vader in the first Star Wars)

I’ve recently done several remote upgrades of FreeBSD and wanted to note the
procedure since it differs a bit from the
handbook procedure for doing so. Still, you must review and understand
the details of the procedure here

I use cvsup to get my copy of the stable source. Used /etc/standard-supfile provided with
cvsup to get it […]

Recently at work I needed a way to quickly recover systems from
bare metal to a known-good state. These were, of course, Windows2000
boxes. Now there are several commercial solutions to “ghost” a system,
but I didn’t have funds available to do that.

Enter knoppix. Knoppix is a
bootable CDROM distribution of Linux. It […]

So you have just one IP address and a bunch of machines behind NAT.
You’ve got port redirection working so your interal webserver behind
the firewall is serving pages. But now you’ve got a second box that
you need to host content on. Perhaps you have need to have a separate
webserver running mod_perl and one running php. […]