LexArrow - it’s in your mind…

I got stuck once again after I thought I have succeeded. Postfix doesn’t do directly mail through old SSL mail port, so I have to go for Exim or Sendmail. Already downloaded the first but I cannot configure it properly. Documentation is… how should I put it…”open source”. At the moment, it’s code seems like out of this world to me. I know I shouldn’t expect to make progress learning a new software in 3 hours (from 1 to 4 AM :D), but everyone has one or more dwarfs in their head and I make no exception.

I don’t know why, but this development thingy is really addictive. I can work for 10-14 hrs a day without food, water or sleep; I simply forget about them. And when I finally cannot keep my eyes open I get pissed because I have a new idea, but my body won’t let me execute it. It’s not the first time this happens. Actually it used to happen a lot when I was in college or at work…dunno’…like I was in a parallel world of my own, even if I had people talking, music or any kind of noise around me, I could hear….somewhere…far far away

P.S: I promise after I get the project into a near beta version I’ll start writing about things that I have a major in: knowledge management and business

I stretched the server thingy way beyond the common sense limits and I’m glad I’ve overcome all hurdles until now.

It’s time to stretch it a little more, as I found out my ISP is blocking port 25 (the one used to send mail).The possible workarounds are to use their hail server as a relay or build my own SSL/TLS mail transport….As I already planned SSL/TLS support for the software I’m building, I’ll go for it!

I’m in 7th Heaven after me and Chris pulled it off!

I’ve been working for a while now at a script that downloads, installs and configures server applications: OpenLDAP, Apache HTTP, PHP, MySQL, Postfix, Dovecot, Samba, Joomla, Bugzilla, KnowledgeTree, SugarCRM, PHPLDAPadmin, Pure-FTP and Webmin. I think such software would be very useful for system administrators and developers because you waste a lot of time installing and configuring something that is critical for an enterprise and can be automated.

The problem was I have a dynamic IP address, and the only solution to have a working domain/subdomain is through a dynamic DNS. So, on Chris’s advice I went on www.afraid.org, created an account for free, submitted my desired subdomain test.lexarrow.com. I also had to upgrade the firmware on my Linksys WRT300N router so it can update the IP (got the upgrade file from : www.dd-wrt.com ).

The new admin interface on my router is just awesome! Built-in VPN server, wake-on-lan and lots of others that it didn’t have before the upgrade.

This wasn’t all it took. Chris had to update the NS for the subdomain and voila : test.lexarrow.com works!

Now I can finally begin my real-life testing

P.S: If you are interested in the software I’m developing, please drop me a comment. If there will be enough “desire” for it, I could make it a public project.

Yellooo there. Mozilla wants to establish a world record for downloads/24h. What’s to download? Firefox 3! I’ve been using it since Beta 3 and I had no problems whatsoever. It’s faster than Firefox 2 and with a lot of new features. INJOY!

I have finally got the Vista’s Aero theme on Ubuntu Linux.

Ubuntu Aero Theme

I finally managed to get all my sound functions to work on linux and made a howto