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Decent Weekend

Posted on November 13, 2006

Ohio State won! Steelers won! Not too bad indeed.

Gmail is finally setup and filtering my mail better then my old email server on dersoldat. Should be a hell of a lot easier to check up and keep current on emails from now on.

Playing in a five man tournament on Sunday and have to celebrate my birthday and the pending victory over Michigan on Saturday. Go Bucks and Go Steelers.

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Life, The Universe, And Everything Else

Posted on November 8, 2006

Steelers stink. Work blows. Life is boring. The Universe is big.

Paintball tournament this month on the 19th, just a few short days after my birthday…Yay! Been itching to play since the one back in July when we took 2nd. I can not wait.

Been messing with gmail as of late. For the longest time, I have ran dersoldat mail though my own server. Since I have been lazy, and have wanted a more intuitive way to access all my emails, I have begun to forward all mail accounts that I own to gmail. They have the very cool virtual email accounts option that allows me to send mails though gmail as if they where dersoldat mails. This allows me to take the memory eating postfix away from my linode and just run my blog and paintball website. I noticed that Apache goes to swap a bit more then I like and even after tweaking the child processes and ttl options, I was still seeing slow page rendering. Since I host php forums and php sites, I needed to find a better way to speed up everything. The only grip or lack of learning new ideas, is the way gmail handles filters not by folders, but by labels. Labels are fine and dandy and a cool idea, it is just a pain to take this and try to integrate into a client app like thunderbird or even evolution. It downloads all mails as if they where in the inbox. Understandable with the concept of labels. Maybe if we get some sort of imap integration into gmail, we can add gmail specific support for these label in other applications. My current goal is to centralize all email, contacts, and calendar information into one location and have access to all this information both via the web and via thunderbird or evolution. Maybe one good reason why clients are still important is because of gpg. That is another topic that needs a way to centralize to have access to it at all times.

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They are Back!

Posted on October 17, 2006

Man, I was getting worried about the steelers and their playing this season. Three losses in a row makes one wonder about the direction the team is going in. After blowing out the Cheifs and seeing a Steeler team that reminds me of the last two years is a welcome sight. The race for the playoffs is still in our hands as long as we do what we need to do and win games. The Steelers are back!

Ohio State is still ranked number 1 in all the polls. Their wins are blowouts anymore as well. They are damn good this year. If they win a National Championship and the Steelers win the Super Bowl, I am afraid I might have to die a very happy man.

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LinuxFest 2006

Posted on October 1, 2006

The 2006 Ohio LinuxFest was indeed a sucess! Jeff Waugh had been setup to do the morning keynote for use, however his flight from Australia had been layed over in St. Louis, Mo. He did arrive for his talk however in the afternoon. I was very happy to see him here and spread some love for Gnome and Ubuntu. His talked was packed. Jorge Casto also did his talk on Active Directory integration which also had a packed room. We where able to pull in 1044 people plus whoever wondered over from some of the other events taking place in the convention center. Kudos to everyone who helped make 2006 the best event ever. And Kudos to everyone else that made the long trek to Columbus to attend and speak at the event. I was very happy to see some really popular and experienced speakers.