Decom

There she goes for the last time: Broadcast message from root@servbot.net     (unknown) at 3:32 … The system is going down for power off NOW! Apr 18 03:32:14 servbot init: serial (hvc0) main process (8573) killed by TERM signal Connection to 96.126.124.243 closed by remote host. Connection to 96.126.124.243 closed. And I’m sad to see read more »

Down for 24 hours

We were down for about 24 hours. Well, not “down” for the first 18, just missing styling… but then definitely all the way down, inaccessible down, for the last six hours. It’s because php is a bitch to build when you’re skipping up 21 versions than the source rpm you’re going off of. None of read more »

Clearing out qmail queue completely

I brought up a new mail server the other day, and part of bringing it up was getting qmail to function on centos 6. Getting it working required me to send a ton of email to the mail server to see where it was failing. Of course, I didn’t want all of the stacked up read more »

Sparrow Mail Client and Monospace Fonts

  I use Sparrow on OS X to read mail. I use it mainly because I like the gmail integration, and it handles imap stuff well too. The only thing that bugs me about it is the lack of monospace font options. Well as it turns out, the application just uses CSS to style everything. read more »

.io domains

I have two criteria that a name must meet in order for me to consider it: neatness, shortness. The neatness factor isn’t really something that I can abstract out and make a script do for me. It’s just too subjective for my programming skills and time constraints. Length, on the other hand, is completely objective, read more »

iOS 6

It feels like the major revisions of iOS 6 are packing fewer and fewer changes. There wasn’t a terrible lot that changed with the latest release. Sure there were a few new stock apps, but in my opinion, those should be rolling as app updates, rather than OS updates. Likes Extensive privacy settings. And because read more »

Slackbook Air Part 3 – The Final Chapter

It just wasn’t meant to be. I’m just not going to be able to force myself to use Linux on Apple laptop hardware. The more I thought about it, the more I thought that using Slackware on a MacBook Air as my main travelling companion, the more it sounded like a bad idea. Here is read more »