Multiple email domains for a home user

For many years I’ve had several email addresses, and not all at the same domain. This has often led to much fun, configuring email clients, finding clients that work with multiple domains easily, etc. Over the years I’ve used Eudora, Outlook Express, Outlook, Pegasus, Evolution, Mutt, Pine, Sylpheed, tkRat and many others that I have [...]

Mysql: the new word in Stability

Last night Slashdot had a posting to the effect that MySQL 4 is now declared stable. Yay! And at only version 4.0.12. Much different than MySQL 3, which I belileve wasn’t declare stable until 3.0.2x. Of course visiting MySQL’s home page will not reveal anything regarding this. Not even on their press release page. Someone [...]

DBA 101

One thing I dislike about being the only technically oriented person in a small company is being stretched into too many directions and unable to cover all bases. For example, some years ago I brought MySQL into our development environment to get rid of all the Access 97 hacks we had floating around (and also [...]

Debian kernel customization

Saw on Debian Planet a link to a nice HOWTO for people new to Debian. It walks one through the process of (re)building the kernel. Read the comments at Debian Planet and OSNEWS, there are some good pointers.

Noatun & Streaming audio

Recently I became interested in Zina a little PHP based jukebox. It has some nice features. Probably I will delve into the code at some future point (it’s one of those ‘let’s stick the entire progam into one huge file’ scripts). Not too bad, I’ve been running it here at work to serve my music [...]