Looks like I will be moving to Gardner, KS late October!

blah… I know I have not updated in a while… been busy with work and not much else.
I had a part of my computer failing basicly if I put too much load on it it locks up wether I am in windows or linux. so now I am reloading linux and its being a pain in the but. any way I got gentoo loaded back on it and went to install xord-x11 and have been tring to get the nvidia module to load. well the problem turned out to be the dlloader USE flag the nvidia does not use yet. So as I speak I have xorg-x11 recompiling…

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Well I know the release of teamspeak 3 is just around the corner. But I need a way to link teamspeak account to a billing database automatically. So I have started work on a php teamspeak class that logs into the teamspeak server via telnet. I currently have it to the point where you can see a list of servers both up and down and what channels they have in addition to who is in those channels. I am in the process of adding kick, ban, and move to features. then I will move on to server creation and deletion. While I am spending time coding this I am wondering if I want to release this to the general public as share ware or if I should charge for it.

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Ok I decided that I like wordpress enouch to use it on my main site. So I went a head and moved it from http://www.home.spysatcentral.net/ to http://www.spysatcentral.net/

My wife and I got to talking about esp, so I sat down and wrote a php applet that will ask a question and you have to choose one of four images. As I am not an expert in esp, I leave the results up to you to interpret.The program works by storing the answer when it asks its question. This way the computer already knows the randomly generated answer before you eave see the question. I allow the person taking the test to choose how many questions they will be asked. of course the accuracy of this test is much greater with the question asked a greater number of times. I personally recommend 20+ questions. Try my version of the esp test here.

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Talk about a royal PITA! I wanted this new server to do smtp_auth and ssl. Started out simple enough… just a ‘USE=”-mysql authdaemond” emerge -av sendmail cyrus-sasl‘. At first every thing looked happy… Then I tried to send mail. Thunderbird just sat there asking me for my password over and over… Needless to say I spent the last eighteen hours trouble shooting this problem and getting much closer the the nitty gritty of sendmail, something I never realy wanted to do… Well after banging my head on my moniter a few time and turning up debugging… I noticed the sasl was trying to authenticate with pam as a smtp service… up to this point, I had been examining the saslauthd file in the /etc/pam.d/ directory. Upon realizing this I figured I would try something crazy, and did a ‘cd /etc/pam.d/ && ln -s saslauthd smtp‘, which informed pam how to authenticate something claiming to be a smtp service. I then turned around and tested again ( I have lost track of how many times I tested up to this point.). I was quite surprised to see sendmail take the email and relay it to one of my other accounts! Mission acomplished!

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Well I managed to get my faild server back online and happy. In fact I thing I even figured out some things with the mail system that make it much better then before. Now I Just need to figure out how to send mail from a client (Thunderbird) to the server (sendmail) encrypted while allowing relaying… speaking of witch I need to get smtp_auth working… but if I can get those two things going, I think I will have it made.

Having done an emerge world sucessfuly numerus times on my own personal workstation. I decided to upgrade php on my amd64 bit Gentoo server and while I was at it do a “emerge –sync” followed by an “emerge -avDN world”. I did not reboot right away as I was going to wait till an off peak time for my teamspeak users. Any way the server is back up and limping on its last leg so I am going to move websites off to a different server and then reinstall gentoo. I think this time I will do a stage 1 install instead of a stage 3 like I did last time. This I hope will apease the Gentoo gods! :)

Wow. the folks over at Gentoo are owking on a live cd that rocks. it will bring you up into gnome. I looks like they borrowed the Xwindows configurer from knoppix to set up X windows on the fly. But what got my attention was the new install script that could do a fully custom gentoo install. I think the script is a great idea but still needs a few tweeks. butably it failed when I tried to use rsync for the portage and I can’t choose ReiserFS for my partion types. But on the up side it allows you to configure every thing and then save that config into an xml file that you can scp off to a different box and reuse. course it should only be used on a box with a similar hard drive for the partioning and depending on just how custom you went a similar cpu as well. Overall I give it 2 thumbs up!

I decided to tose coustion to the wind to day and play around with optomizations on my workstation. I figure the worse that will happen is that I will have to reinstall Gentoo on my workstation or remove the optomizations and recompile yet again…

So… in my /etc/make.conf I am changing my CFLAGS from “-O3 -march=i686 -pipe” to “-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fforce-addr ” and running “emerge –sync && emerge -avDN world” and crossing my fingers.

I am sure some of you C hackers out there will look at this and laugh but as I know next to nothing about compiling software and the ins and outs of a compiler, this is some what of a leap for me. Of course if you know of any other flags I should use, I would love to hear about them and why I should use them.