In my eternal quest to solve what by rights should be an extremely settled problem by now, I entertained the 30 day demo of Redtail this week. I must report it to be quite a fail. In particular, a few substantial usability issues came up almost immediately:
As a Microsoft technologies backed product, it [...]
Eventually, managing one’s own mail server ceases to entertain. A plethora of technologies need be managed to produce a useful mail server: Proper DNS records, relay configurations, encryption and authentication, Bayesian filters, DNS blacklists, storage, filesystem permissions, and so on. Further, that only gets one basic email. Distributed contact lists and easy, [...]
When faced with deploying a ssh key to a ton of servers using password authentication, there is but one solution. Ruby, naturally. Below is a script that will iterate through a list of hosts either via STDIN or IO redirection, query for a password once on the command line, then proceed to distribute [...]
As this Makefile from the now dead sial.org/howto/openssl/ca/Makefile is much linked to, but nearly impossible to find elsewhere, he’s a copy I eventually pulled from Google:
Update, 19 July: The Makefile wasn’t really very useful as that version didn’t work. Instead, I suggest this excellent guide geared towards Puppet, but applicable in general. [...]
In constructing a Chef cookbook for managing dspam, I happened upon dbconfig-common, a framework that allows a package to manage database backends somewhat transparently. However, it has no affinity for preseeding. Another approach is necessary for the libdspam7-drv-mysql package.
In the relevant section of the recipe below, the file created to cache relevant database [...]
Having recently acquired a 1TB WD My Passport SE USB 3.0, I would hate to destroy it. I noticed it shuts down when removed from a Windows system safely, but simply unmounting under Kubuntu via the Device Notifier applet does not have the same effect. Naturally, I become worried about destroying my device.
Fortunately, [...]
I just grabbed one of these adapters for $10. Naturally it doesn’t work out of the box. Fortunately someone found a solution before I had to fuss with it too much.
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl819xU
rtl819xU:FirmwareRequest92S(): failed with TCR-Status: a
rtl819xU:ERR!!! _rtl8192_up(): initialization is failed!
The solution is easy, though.
$ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37387612/rtl8192sfw.bin.gz
$ gunzip rtl8192sfw.bin.gz
$ sudo [...]
We’re looking to move our business address and CenturyLink can’t let us keep our existing number. Naturally, we’re still in the service area, so we can get a new number. If we’d rather port our number to another service — can’t image why we’d want to keep the number we’ve had for years [...]
Seriously, what a silly diary.
And now back to the point of this rant: this is why I quit caring about Dkos. All the fucking emo “OMG he’s not doing it the why I want.” Well get yourself and 199 other progressive congresscritters elected and we can talk about that. Until then Obama is the vehicle [...]
Playing through the OC again with a cleric build. Tweaked it some as the OC maxes around level 16 or level 17. Decided on 14 STR, 10 DEX, 12 CON, 14 INT, 16 WIZ, 10 CHAR. Naturally a cleric build customized for casting is heavy on the WIZ. The purpose of 14 INT [...]