I have finally gotten cyrus imap and sieve up and limping along. I don’t even want to begin to document the pain it was to set up… the only thing I’ll say is… USE A PRE-COMPILED CYRUS IMAP PACKAGE if possible – after struggling along for weeks, the Fedora Core 2 RPM installed in seconds with zero problems. Fedora Tracker is da bomb. My cyrus setup isn’t perfect yet… but I can pull up my email in 4 seconds instead of 300 now…

Bottom line: if you want an email account on thedigitalmachine.com, now is the time to ask. :>

With Red Hat dropping support for Red Hat Linux (duh!), it was only a matter of time before I made a move to a new distro – when it comes to running an internet-exposed server, a little guy like me has no choice – I HAVE to run an up-to-date auto-patched distro. With cyrus playing the role of the proverbial straw, I decided to upgrade (sidegrade?) to Fedora. Read on for all the gory details – just kidding, it’s not that bad. In fact, in retrospect, yum made it downright smooth.

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Core and I have been making slow progress with wxWindows – it’s a GREAT library, I have just been very busy. We’ve made an app that displays your free space remaining on your drives. The linux version only looks at “/” right now. Download the Windoze version by clicking the screenshot. We’ll be continuing to work on it.

A couple notes on setting up wxWidgets under Windoze (Core, let’s have some notes on the linux setup too, if needed):

  • under Windows, copy /include/msw/setup.h to /include/setup.h
  • define wxUSE_EXCEPTIONS in your project so you get proper RTTI functionality
  • build either the debug or release version of wxWindows-2.5.1srcwxWindows.dsw
  • add the paths to wxWindows lib and include to Venereal Studio
  • Hey all, here’s the latest build of HangTheDJ. It FINALLY has DJ’s. I didn’t plan on posting a build yet, but a story came up on slashdot and I wanted to follow up with this. I was even stupid enough to post a comment on slashdot – am I looking for trouble or what? 😛

    Google‘s got a new format! I’ve updated my google results scraper that formats Google results for use in a sidebar frame. Here’s the code if you want to try it at home.