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 […]

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 […]

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 […]