Yes that right my boy is finally here in the real world!
Here are the stats:
Name: Johhny Arthur Collins III
BDay: 8/6/06 at 3:51pm MST
Weight: 7lbs 9 ounces
Height: 20.5"
Now here is an interesting factoid about his birthday, it just so happens to be the same day that the first Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. AND what was the nickname of that bomb??? Kinda scarry but it was called "Little Boy"…hmm hope he doesnt turn out to be a nuclear scientist…that would be creapy
Can you believe the Mars rovers are still going…its simply fasinating that they lived this long. And now we find out that Spirit is now "Safe For the Winter". They had to move Spirit to an an outcrop so he can get enough light to survive the winter, and he is now safe with a 20% boost in power. Heres the scoop: http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn8980-last-minute-diversion-takes-mars-rover-to-safety.html
Way to go Nasa!
This morning my main mailserver took a dump and decided to lock up on me, it happens everynow and then (mail servers do alot of IO) but once I rebooted, cleared out some core files..etc I noticed every login attempt resulted in an "Aack, child crashed" message. I have seen this before but for the life of me I could not remember the remedy. So I then remember that it had to do with with the relay mechanism in vpopmail, since I run POP before SMTP it builds a relay file so my clients can use the outgoing smtp as a mail relay. So I travel into the vpopmail etc folder to find tons of "open-smtp.tmp" files…ahh the plot thickens…now I cant remember the fix for it! Damm so here comes Google where I found my answer. Here is what is going on
The relay file autmaticall build a "open-smtp" file that gets included into the CDB database of mail relays, this file was hosed and it was not clearing itself. Here is what my directory looked like (minus a few hundred .tmp files)
| -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 25 Mar 28 2004 inc_deps -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 32 Mar 28 2004 lib_deps -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 3351 Apr 6 08:17 open-smtp -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:45 open-smtp.lock -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:45 open-smtp.tmp.11526 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.12382 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:45 open-smtp.tmp.13149 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.14253 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.17356 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.17421 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.18429 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.21172 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:45 open-smtp.tmp.21453 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:45 open-smtp.tmp.24133 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.27849 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.282 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.28685 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.3689 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.4512 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 0 Apr 6 10:44 open-smtp.tmp.6152 -rw-r–r– 1 root vchkpw 300 May 8 2004 tcp.smtp -rw-r–r– 1 vpopmail vchkpw 5928 Apr 6 08:04 tcp.smtp.cdb |
So the fix is simple from this point on, one command will rule them all
| # rm open-smtp* |
(of course make sure your backups are up to date before issuing a rm command with an *)
Now login and see the magic, the file "open-smtp" & "open-smtp.lock" will be created on the next login..no more child error..mail flows normally, and no more .tmp files filling the folder.
Hope this helps someone out there, I know I may have to refer back to this post more than once.
-out
While browsing my morning news I was reading an article over on TechDirt.com (http://techdirt.com/articles/20060405/031234.shtml) about China looking to block VoIP services in their country. Now we all know China is pretty strict on their internet policies so this comes as no shock. The last sentence of the article poses a point of "When will voip providers find a way around blocks" So the first comment on the article reads "Do you really want to play hide and seek with someone willing to park a tank on your chest?", at this point I had to laugh out loud, so simple yet so true…its the simple things that make me laugh sometimes!
Well I feel dirty…I have tasted the DarkSide and I am kinda digging it. I have tried Linux on my desktop instead of FreeBSD. I feel ashamed.
NOW dont get me wrong I will NOT use Linux on my servers, I have nothing against Linux but I find FreeBSD far more superior in terms of servers. I have been using Linux since Slackware2 (I think that was around 1997) Then I became a FreeBSD convert around 1999-2000, since then I have been using it for everything, servers, desktop, laptop you name it. I dabble in Linux from time to time just to keep up on things since some of my clients run Linux, so I still need to maintain Linux servers, but thats far and few between.
Recently I have been having some compatabilities issues on the desktop use of FreeBSD, mostly in terms of multimedia and web browsing which is important for my work since I deal with alot of multimedia sites. So I got frustrated and decided to give a Linux distro I have never used a try. The distro is called "Ubuntu", so far I am impressed with how easy they have made the setup, plus all of the multimedia problems I have been having are gone. Here is some observations I had setting up the distro
(these observations are coming for a die hard command-line guy, so I am kinda biased)
Install was fine, partitioning was kinda clunky, single CD install, pretty simple (i would prefer a cli partition editor)
Boot up was a bit slower that my other FreeBSD boxes, which I can deal with.
Default colors are terrible, brown would not be my first choice.
NO ROOT ACCESS, they decided to disable root in preferance of "sudo", easily changed with "sudo passwd root"
Package system was alien to me, but then again you cant beat the bsd ports system.
Default Apps were nice.
A third party app named "Automatix" made multimedia setup easy as a snap.
Gnome window manager takes a minute to adjust to (im a kde guy, yes I know they have kubuntu)
ALL of my hardware worked including my cheap ass ati tv-wonder VE capture card.
So far those are the standout things, basically everything has worked so far. I hate to admit it but its working better on the desktop than FreeBSD, well I must go and punish myself now. I will write more about it when I test it more with work.
-out
I took some quick pics of my new AP setup for my office connection. I had to hack the Linksys WRT54G into fitting into this little N.E.M.A box, basically all I had to do was create mounts and solder on an N-Bulkhead connection to the left antenna socket. The WRT54G is running the DD-WRT v23 firmware. So far I am pushing a solid 5.5Mbps upload & download over 2Miles, all with the help of 24dbi "grill" antennas. I am still tweaking to say the least. (the WRT54G’s have a slight ACK timing issue, but some quick hacks with a util called "dctrl" seemed to improve things)
Heres the box (I blanked the IP sticker to protect the guilty)
Click for full size image
Here is the full mast now
I am going to write up a full howto this weekend since it might help some people out on the DD-WRT forums.
later
This is the perfect explanation of this whole christmas problems: (warning contains “language”)
Kinda funny and annoying at the same time: crazy rabbit (c) Andrius Kirvela
On a Side note, I now have all of my old picure archive imported and ready to view in my gallery.
Also since I have been remaking my Yu-Gi-Oh deck I have found a need for "Sheep Tokens" from the effect of "ScapeGoat" so instead of using coins or dice I decided to make a "Sheep Token" Card which can be used. It is the standard card size and looks just like a real card (well kinda), here is a little sample of it:
))
enjoy - out
Well we picked up our Harry Potter tickets for the new movie. We are going to the midnight premier. Steph is like a kid in a candy store right now, it’s quite entertaining to watch.
I finally installed a gallery application that I like so I have been putting all of my pictures into it the last few days. I almost have my full collection in there.
Check it out here.
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