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A long road to my new email address [ m @ thedigitalmachine.com]

I have been dreaming of being master of my very own email addresses for a while now. Finally, [ m @ thedigitalmachine.com] has arrived.

Actually getting Redhat 7.2 to cooperate with my plans required a bit of digging to uncover an underlying problem. It turns out that for Redhat 7.2’s default configuration, “sendmail will only accept and send email for ‘localhost'”. You will not get mail from any other box until you change this default, which takes a little work. Get the full dirt here, read on… (continued…)

Comments | Sunday, April 28, 2002

We don’t need no stinkin’ Apache…

Power went out on my linux box, so I got slapped with a new IP. I updated my DNS records with the new IP, and waited for it to propogate. I still had trouble getting my website served back up and called Zac in to help – no matter how hard I tried, the home page would just not show up – until he pointed out that maybe it had something to do with the fact that Apache wasn’t running.

Comments | Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Crack award kickoff: A joint effort

Zac and Bill share the crack award for being baffled about storing two numbers that range from 0 to 12 in one tiny little byte.

Comments | Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Hello World v.0.3

Can this really be my third hard drive in two months? I gotta learn how to back up… For those who missed the previous fun, here is a link to the original site that started it all…

Comments | Tuesday, February 26, 2002

You’ve Installed Slash!

So it took some doing (hopefully not too much), and it looks like you’ve got Slash installed and ready to rock. You can now use backSlash, the Slash Code Administration tool, if you are logged in as the admin user you set up during installation. And you might wanna start posting some stories too.