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Survivalist Frame of Mind
Recommended reading: The Art of Survival: Essential Skills for the Post-Apocalyptic World. Not the book, but the article linked here, and especially the comments. The Independent is notably liberal, progressive, socialist, or whatever you call it. You’ll learn a couple … Continue reading
Update: Multiple SMTP Accounts from the Console
This is a follow up for a previous post. Before I committed myself to any particular MTA for the job, I continued the search for information. I stumbled across this HOWTO on Alpine Configuration (no longer available) which addressed my … Continue reading
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Grass Fires: Paying Attention?
Today was a perfect day for grass fires in Oklahoma. We’ve had a long run of dry weather, and since this morning we’ve had severe high winds, easily gusting to 60 MPH. Just one minor spark and it’s all over … Continue reading
Multiple SMTP Accounts from the Console
Update: I got this working, but I’m leaving the original post. For the solution, go here. ************ Scenario: I really love working from the console. As I continue preparing my Inspiron 4100 for long-term use, I now have CentOS 5.3 … Continue reading
Virtuous Vice
The definition of “human” includes the expectation we all have our vices. What separates some vices from virtue is often little more than context. It’s possible to do any good thing to excess and bring about a harmful effect. Should … Continue reading
XP: Just Checking
When I gave my wife the big server machine, we set her old one aside as a guest machine. It also collects the stuff I do which simply requires something Win-DOS. It’s at least twice the machine as this laptop, … Continue reading
Meanwhile, Out There on Mars
Merzan stroked his ocular extensions with seven-fingered hands. Okay, not really seven fingers, since two were thumbs on opposite sides of his palms. It gave a different meaning to “opposable thumbs” but no humans would ever get the joke. Merzan … Continue reading
Web Ads Out of Control
I never thought I would see it. I was reading Slashdot, scrolling down, and a huge single window popped up in my Seamonkey browser. Not just that, but the whole site in the background went dark. There was nothing in … Continue reading
Stumbling Upon CPAN
I don’t know Perl. I don’t want to know Perl, because I don’t need to know Perl to do what matters in my life. Still, I can’t get done things I need to do without the existence of Perl. For … Continue reading
CentOS 5.3: This Works
All I can say is “WOW!” No, not the fan-boy stuff; it has to work the way I work. I can be quite merciless about discarding the most expensive, the best supported and wildest hyped, and I really could care … Continue reading