Nix Bits

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”, […]

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 […]

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’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 […]

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 has […]