Author: Randolph

Almost the middle of December. One week and six days to Christmas. Ten days to my 27th birthday. And still no Internet access at home. I'm starting to get very anxious about that little fact, because it's going to affect my productivity if I'm working from there! I can still use the facilities at the office, even though I'm contracting, but it's inconvenient.

Whoooooooo! Civilization III is sooooooooo cooooooool. Ok, I’m going on about this but it really is so much better than Civilization and Civ II. Go out, put your money on the counter and get this!

I bought me a USB thumb drive today. It’s only 256MB, but that’s enough for me to carry around all of my web and software development files with me wherever I go. Talk about convenient. Now all I need is a laptop and I’ll be sorted.

I resigned from my day job today. I’ve really had enough of petty nonsense and politics (accused of stealing software). So I’ve spoken to the boss, and she’s agreed to keep me on in a consulting capacity, for the same money, and I am only responsible for getting their website up and running, plus aContinue reading I Quit

Happy AIDS Day … sort of. This morning the local radio station gave a Christmas Wish to a man called Andries dying from AIDS: free medical treatment for the rest of his life. That’s worth more than anything else. I wasn’t upset that I didn’t win the prize to go see Justin Timberlake in LondonContinue reading World AIDS Day

Installed and running successfully: Red Hat 9.0 and all patches, qmail 1.03 and all patches. Now I need to sleep!

There’s a new Pet Shop Boys album out! I’m gonna get PopArt, sight and sound unseen. I downloaded “Positive Role Model” (legally, off their site) a few months ago and I liked it. Last album I bought without listening first was Depeche Mode’s Exciter.

So now I’ve formatted and reinstalled Red Hat, but this time version 9.0. I ran up2date and everything is up to date … yes well. Anyway the next step is to reinstall qmail, plus SpamAssassin is already installed, so hopefully I won’t have the same problems as I did on Monday. I have a betterContinue reading Red Hat vs Windows

Here’s a handy hint I should put in for those of you who recall my escapades with Red Hat 8.0: Don’t delete the root user account, even if it’s by accident. I did. I recreated it with the same levels and everything, and then when I rebooted, I couldn’t log in. That’s sort of okay,Continue reading Don’t delete root …

I know most of you don't care, but I managed to configure qmail 1.0.3 on a Red Hat 8.0 machine, acting as a secure relay between my Microsoft Exchange 5.5 mail server and the SmoothWall 1.0 GPL firewall. Did everybody get that? Well, I did, and I am so chuffed with myself. Considering that getting the relay part to work was a lot of trial and error, and I only had one email returned to sender (a test sent by myself, to myself), I am very impressed with my accomplishments. Now I know I can do it, and let me tell you, it's not difficult if you read the instructions and use your common sense.