Nix Bits

It’s hard to imagine anything positive to say about war — regardless of one’s opinions of the decisions that led up to it. Hopefully few (or none!) are hurt or killed and this ends quickly. Hopefully the divisions that have been created are mended. It’s hard for me to imagine positive outcomes but I hope […]

I’d done this a long time ago and pretty much forgotton all about it. I’ve used procmail for a long time to pre-sort all my mailing list mail among other tasks. I also use it as a mechanism to distribute my gpg public key. If you send me a message with the subject “get key”, […]

I have decided to start using my GPG key again to sign emails and such. It’s a good thing to use encryption and digital signature technology. Consequently, I’ve gone ahead and posted my key here

If you’re like me, you’ve taken the time to rip your entire music collection to mp3. I have a huge collection of CDs and like to listen to them in the car with my portable mp3 player. I also like to listen to them at work. Since I have a PC and net access, I […]

Well, it’s finally come and gone and I for one shall miss it. Mardi Gras has to be my favorite holiday. It’s special. it’s different. Everywhere else, Tuesday was just another Tuesday. In New Orleans it’s so much more. Lots of people only think of Bourbon Street and baring body parts for beads. Sure that’s […]

I’ve had a few questions lately about my lab. I no longer host NOLUG on my personal equipment. My company OTIS hosts it on a FreeBSD box that Mikey and I set up. Nonetheless I do have a pretty extensive little personal lab for testing and development. My primary workstation is an Athlon with 512M […]

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 and removing hardware […]

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 GNU sed to […]

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 as a calendar plugin […]

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 server and a domain […]