Does anyone here have a preferred ftp daemon that they run? I’d use the one built into FreeBSD, but I’d prefer to have something a bit more stand-alone which will do authentication on it’s own with chroot support, as I want logins with no system accounts to access only very specific directories.
I’d run Apache 2.x and use it’s ftp module, but I’m still concerned about PHP compatibility with it.
Man, my colo facility is f’d up. Well, not their facility… Or their service… Just their billing. See, I installed the server back in February and (except for a failed switch card which they quickly replaced) things have been working great. Except for billing.
After the server was installed, I was told that I’d be receiving a bill at the end of the month. No problem… Well, three months rolled by and no bill. After a bit of email being sent around, I received an invoice a few days later. Paid it, no problems.
Well, three more months roll past, and still no bills. So, I email them asking for the June, July, and August bills. After a phone conversation early Wednesday morning, the billing folks explain that they don’t know what happened, but they’ll send an invoice out. So, Friday comes and I receive an invoice. For September. Bah! Heh…
Fortunately after a phone call today with Bill, the person who was there when I put the server in, he said that I should just pay the September bill, and they will get the billing stuff straightened out and send me another invoice in a few weeks to clear it all up.
That’s fine with me… I just hope it happens. Heh. In the mean time I’ve cancelled the June and July checks, adding them back into the pool of float, and waiting for the next invoice. I’ll just send what was to be the August check as the September payment.
Heh… It’s just funny. Most places are rock solid on their billing while service suffers. This place provides great, fast connectivity with cheap colocation rates. Just…. iffy billing. :)
So, yeah. Need someone to host your server? Look up Waveform Technologies.
Nothing like finding what appears to be a bug in your email system at 3am. When you are tired. Too tired to fix it now.
Here’s the problem: When vpopmail (the virtual domain mail management add-in for qmail) authenticates a user via pop3 or imap, it adds an entry to a database stating that the IP address the user coming from is allowed to send mail through the server, via SMTP. This all generally works fine, except when you are checking your email via POP3 with SSL.
Then, instead of the standard line like this:
68.60.89.18:allow,RELAYCLIENT=””,RBLSMTPD=”” 1091862544
You instead get something like this:
__ffff_68.60.89.18:allow,RELAYCLIENT=””,RBLSMTPD=”” 1091861372
As the second line doesn’t work, someone with an account on my mail server won’t be able to relay mail through my mail server.
So, I’m not completely sure what’s going on as of yet. I think maybe if I update vpopmail (qmailadmin needs it as well) things will get straightened out, but we’ll have to see.
Actually, I’m now starting to think that the problem could be with my config in general. It seems I overlooked something, and I currently have qmail doing POP3, and courier doing POP3-SSL. So, I may have overlooked something when I set my mail server up way back when, and this whole time I’ve been working around the problem without knowing it, simply by having just one of my accounts check via POP3 as opposed to POP3 with SSL.
Hmm… So yeah, if this is the case, I need to figure out how to have courier make the required changes to have POP before SMTP work with it, too.
I guess I didn’t do it right instead of the first place.
Okay, so the last time I went rollerblading I did just under 13 miles. Averaged something like 8 mph along the route. This time? I was only able to do just over 6 miles, but had a moving average of exactly 10 mph by the time I got back to my car. It’s definitely different to skate in 90°F (32°C for you power-of-ten-folk) as opposed to 70°F (21°C) weather. Wow. I was sweating while moving. I think that’s a first in as long as I can remember…
Now it’s time to remove spyware from my Dentist’s computer. Whee!
Another thing for sale… Is anyone interested in a Netpliance I-Opener? It’s the original version, already hacked, with a 1GB hard drive installed, ready to go, USB network adapter, etc. I’ve also got a mouse/keyboard splitter so that you can use any PS/2 mouse and keyboard with it. Getting the hard drive in there required replacing the heatsink and doing some ninja-type mounting and fitting. It’s definitely not stock, but *is* ideal.
I just want $100 for it… In the original box, also with original keyboard and docs and firmware intact, etc. It works just fine, I just have no need for it anymore.
Otherwise, it’s going up on eBay, too.
Oh, in case you don’t know what one of these is, it’s a single panel computer/display with a modem, USB port, parallel port, etc. Great for running Linux or Windows 98 or whatever else you feel like on it.
Well, I just emailed the Shelby Township Historical Committee to offer them some free webhosting. Currently they have their site hosted at Tripod, with the rather unprofessional URL http://shelbyhistory.tripod.com. The photos for the site are also hosted at an ImageStation URL which requires you to log in. Interestingly, the login they provide for you has rights to add/change/delete photos. Not good.
I just offered them some free hosting, a copy of Gallery, email, etc. You know, the normal.
I sort of hope they take me up on it, as it’d be neat to host something on that scale.
Does anyone who reads this have any experience with Jabber? I’m trying to get a third party client (for use on my home machine) to connect with the corporate servers here, and it’s just. not. working.
So, please? Anyone who can throw some ideas my way?
Thanks!
VisionTek sure uses some wacky terms to describe their video cards. Check this out…
With 8 pipelines, pushing through 3 BILLION pixels per second, and 4 parallel GEO-Metry engines, processing 380 million [T&L] polygons per second, this card gives GRATUITOUS, adult entertainment. The 9800XT supports 128-bit, 64-bit and 32-bit floating-point color formats. HI-RES 32-bit, 3D gaming up to 2048×1536 for head-shooting, flesh-ripping, ALARMING graphics power.
The 9800XT fronts more than 18 BILLION (with a “B”) anti-aliasing samples per second for AWESOME performance up to 16 trilinear filtered texture samples per pixel. ATI’s programmable SMARTSHADERª 2.1 makes head-wounds and severed limbs look real with enhanced lighting and texture effects, while SMOOTHVISIONª 2.1 serves up full-scene anti-aliasing.
(taken from here)
Computers have gone to the ricers. :(
[UPDATE: I found a bit more…]
Here‘s the one I was originally thinking of when I went digging around VisionTek‘s site:
Freak’n KICK ASS performance
Xtasy 9500 Pro, powered by ATI’s RADEON™ 9500 PRO VPU with 128MB DDR memory WILL BLOW YOU… AWAY! ATI’s TRUFORM technology makes heaving orbs more ample and well-endowed, while HYPER Z™ II saves bandwidth for mo’ righteous performance in your more demanding sit-e’ations. ATI’s SMOOTHVISION, anti-aliasing, KICKS THE CRAP out of visual distortion, and sends that BI-A-TCH crying home to mama! That means better, smoother looking images. HI-RES 32-bit, 3D gaming up to 2048×1536 means that when ‘intense applications’ leaves his house, THE 9500 SLAPS THAT PIG DOWN, SAYS “GIMME MY MONEY BI-A-TCH!”BITCH’N Visual Effects
SMARTSHADER 2.0 provides FREAK’N AWESOME lighting effects. The 9500 PRO supports DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® ATI’s CHARISMA ENGINE II fronts ‘Transformation and Lighting’ (T&L) at 62.5 million triangles per second. “62.5M per second?”YOU BET YO’ ASS 62.5M PER SECOND! PIXEL TAPESTRY II, 3D rendering engine, powers an AWESOME 2.4 gigatexels/second for fill ratesat 32-bit HI-RES.Ever have TWO MONITORS at one time?
Throw in DVD support and you have yourself a threesome…
Heaving orbs? < sigh >
Just FYI, bornslippy.nuxx.net is back up. I didn’t get a chance to dig around in it much, as I wanted to reboot it and used a ‘ssh root@nuxx.net reboot’ command to make sure it happened right away. With things being as flappy as they were, I wanted the box downed and back up. As of now things are working great again… I guess I’ll just have to continue to monitor it as the day goes.
Maybe it’s time to set up something to alert me if it fails to reply to pings for more than a minute straight or something.
Oh, and this…
I got the tile cut and stuck down in the vestibule. Thanks to an angle grinder with a diamond wheel and a tile saw, it was nice, even though it was a bit wet and messy. That’s all right, though… It’s done right.
Oh, and this part of my house is officially the ‘vestibule’. It seems that the definition of foyer is more applicable to a large space. Vestibule fits much nicer…
Now I’m just doing laundry. All my laundry. See, part of stripping the floor of the laundry room requires me to soak it down with paint thinner. I’m not going to run a gas dryer in a room full of mineral spirits fumes. Oh, and I also need to tile underneath where the washer, dryer, and laundry tub are, so they have to be moved out of the way regardless.
With any luck I’ll have ceramic tile laid down in the laundry room by Monday night. Whee!