Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Mourning of Sendmail

Sendmail is a simple functional Unix based mail server. It requires a small amount of knowledge to install and get running but once up; it runs forever. At my office we had a 5 year old server running on a 1.1 Ghz processor with 256 MB of RAM. On that box was a free distro of the Fedora project and a installation of sendmail. For 5 year it just worked. One time in 5 years it stopped working. It

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Wasting Time

So.. It seems there is something severely wrong with me. Right. You all knew that. Regardless. I've been watching Star Trek Enterprise for the first time. As I progress through the seasons, I find myself captioning still frames in my head. So... Without further ado.My severely altered Star Trek Captions.Archer: Oh Great!T'Pol: A problem captain?Archer: I should think so! I put in my money, pushed

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Super Mutant Soup

Oh no... The beast has returned. I haven't dived into a video game coma for what I believe is over a year. I've been away. I've been in the garage playing with my power tools. Creating objects to make my house a bit more functional or my pocketbook a bit less scrawny. Regardless I've been creating blister, calluses and gathering skills and tools to my ever expanding domain. Something changed. I

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Look! Stupid Pictures!

Yeah! It seems my exhaustion has addled my brain. What was that? It was always this way?Saving a few bucks on airfare...You tell him he looks stupid. Well? Go on!Ballet never seemed this interesting to me...You tell me what this one means, cause I'm not sure.

Exhaustion

This is the fist morning in what seems like an eternity without coffee. Here I am at almost 1:00 wondering how I'm suppose to get through the next 5 hours. Today, starting at Cisco configs is like holding up the world. I suddenly feel quite bad for Altlas. Poor soul. Though unlike Atlas, I have no merciful Perseus willing to exchange information for a quick release from my suffering. Ah for

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Vintage Computer Ads

So... did you clear a warehouse for the server?Talk About User Friendly!Portable? With a back brace...You're going to love all the wasted man hours!Bargins Galore!Compact? Seriously?If Bill said it, I believe it and that's that!I love the idea that this was 'micro' anything!Very nice! Yes, the computer too..