Random Computer Thoughts

Notes to myself from the past few weeks:

  1. Sendmail domains that a server thinks it is are controlled by the /etc/mail/local-host-names files, at least on FreeBSD. If you don’t double check that file, you might have a server responding to a domain name it no longer controls.
  2. The MySQL Administrator GUI seems a bit iffy both on Windows and OSX. I keep running into errors that don’t quite seem to make sense, although it is probably user error.
  3. I’ve now crashed this Popwerbook about 10 times and I’m wondering exactly why. OpenOffice 2.0 with X11 seems somewhat unstable. Perhaps I should go ahead, back it all up, and do a clean reinstall and partition it differently.
  4. Make sure any scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are executable if you want them to run on startup with FreeBSD systems.
  5. Having your own server beats the pants off of having a hosted server.
  6. I should spend more time working on this site, and less time posting random crap.

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