My black belt test is scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend 2010. I’ve been working toward it since late 2001. Yesterday, with 180 days to go, I decided to increase the intensity of my workouts. In fact, I’m typing this from my elliptical in my basement gym. I’m making a public […]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
UPDATE 10/18/2010: Since writing this post, I have upgraded to CentOS 5.5 and have switched to using OpenDKIM to sign outgoing mail. It will also work great with CentOS 5.4. An updated blog post with step-by-step instructions is here.
DKIM Proxy Install on CentOS 5.4
I found this post from darkness very helpful when I moved from an older RHEL to CentOS 5.4 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 server: http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/247 Adding: i8042.dumbkbd=1 to the kernel command line (it’s in /boot/grub/grub.conf) worked exactly as advertised. Apart from the keyboard input being a bit slow, and not […]
Remote Access of a Dell PowerEdge 2650 and DRAC III ...

Those who truly know me know that I’m extremely “handy” with tools and DIY projects. My Dad grew up on farms and ranches, so he knows how to fix pretty much anything. I grew up going to Parkrose Hardware with him every Saturday, wandering around the aisles until we found […]
You Can Wash and Dry It. We Can Help.
Even though Halloween is barely over and Thanksgiving isn’t here yet, I brought in a decorator to help put the Utah house in the Christmas spirit. Whoa… my bad. When I said “a decorator,” I meant “THE decorator.” Lana Christensen designed the everyday interior of our Utah house from top-to-bottom, […]
It’s Christmas-time in Hollis, Queens!
I did it – I upgraded my primary desktop to Windows 7. And yes, when I say “upgrade,” I mean I actually chose the “upgrade” option, because I was already running Vista. So far, so good. I probably wouldn’t have adopted so early (especially on my primary desktop, on which […]