Home Archives: November 2003

Dear Vendor

Dear vendor, When I have to fix a difficult defect found deep within your code, I occasionally open your classes in decafe. When I see you comparing two Strings wi...

Evercrack

Way back when I worked at paradise.net a few of my coworkers became hooked on evercrack. I saw them stay up till all hours, miss shifts and genrally have a shitty lif...

The backup problem

The server here upgraded safely, now I’m in the process of setting up rsync for regular backups to DVD. If anyone has some programs or scripts for this I̵...

Redhat, Fedora and common questions

There’s been quite a bit of confusion lately about just what redhat is up to with fedora core, how it relates to Redhat linux. I thought I’d post my take...

Postfix's relay control

Well, I got to work today and tried to send mail from my webmail client. Relaying denied. Turns out I’d never tested sending email from squirrelmail. My con...

All Services migrated

My gentoo server is now doing nothing except NAT. It’s a bit of a waste but given the proximity of the Fedora Core 1.0 release, I don’t want to go through...