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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As I am looking for work I have decided to place my resume on my website. If you are looking to hire a network administrator or web developer you can email me for a password to see it.
Here is a limited list of things I can do :
COMPUTER / TECHNICAL STRENGTHS
Operating Systems
- Windows - Mac […]

Well I found a theme I liked… I liked where the graphics were going but I though it could use a little reworking. So now instead of being all crome. I have updated the crome to be much cleaner and added wood trimmings. most likely I will continue to make small revisions untill I am […]

I have found an Icw tea that I like, though not just for its tast. Market Pantry (not sure who the parent company is…) sells a tub of 6 tubs. You just mix one tub with 2 quarts of water and presto, ready to drink. I don’t recall the price as I sit here, but […]

Originally posted by: UBI Forums
We’re proud to announce that the official PC demo of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Lockdown is now available for download. Developed by Ubisoft’s Red Storm Entertainment studio, the demo includes a single player mission (South Africa) and a multi-player map (Prison).
The single player mission will let players play a ‘campaign […]

A while back my wife asked me what a umask was in linux. To help her out in understanding it I hammered out this text file, unix umasks. I let her put it on her site, Girl Geekette dotNet. And now that I have my own blog I have decided to post it here as […]