Monthly Archives: August 2006

Gentoo can be annoying, sometimes

The next best thing to getting ran over by an 18th wheeler would be having a gentoo baselayout update breaking havoc over your mail server. I have no idea why, but Courier, which is the mail server suite I use, … Continue reading

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Sharing, Syncing and editing iCal over WebDAV

(Sep 11 2010)Update: I am still seeing some traffic to this page in my logs. I thought I should mention that the method described below no longer works. A better alternative now would be to use the CalDAV protocol. You … Continue reading

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Back to the Future Part 1

My quad Xeon’s clock keeps drifting. It was now two days in the future. I ntp’ed it: nailhead # ntpdate time.apple.com 15 Aug 23:54:57 ntpdate[22961]: step time server 17.254.0.27 offset -131984.081641 sec 131984.081641 seconds in the future, huh? Guess the … Continue reading

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Apache hangs on Digest Secret generation

I have a machine on my network that is very special. It’s a rather old Quad Xeon, an HP LH4 that I scavenged out of the proverbial dumpster of a buisness that didn’t want it anymore. In fact, they were … Continue reading

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