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Zach and Dee both posted about creating a Flash based Miis. The Mii is the character you create with Nintendo’s Wii. With your Mii, you can give your code to friends and your Mii can roam around your friends Wii Menu.
I spent a little time creating mine and I think it came out very good. I fixed the goatee in photoshop just so that it will look a little better.
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Microsoft has spent the last decade trying to kill Linux from the market because of they were afraid of the competition. However, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO), announced that they have made a deal with Novell to start promoting Linux. This was one of the biggest shocks to tech folks around because of how much Microsoft was against Linux in the past. Ballmer once called Linux “a form of intellectual-property cancer. While he has since dialed back the rhetoric, the subtext remains in nearly all Microsoft discussions of Linux: Use it, and you run the risk that Microsoft will sue you.” I do not know why Microsoft has to be so harsh with the situation but over time, things will cool down and the shock factor will sink in. I think Forbes.com was correct when they stated: “This is stunning. This is like Red Sox fans announcing they’re going to root for the Yankees.”
One of the biggest complaints that many people have had with Microsoft is that they were so against Linux that it made it hard for them to run Windows as an Operating System. Apple had the right idea to base the Operating System back end on Unix. That is one reason why MAC’s and Linux are so stable.
Microsoft spent $250 Million on the deal with Novell to make one of the largest software purchases ever. I think that this deal will be an amazing change for Novell and for Microsoft. I think that if they can work out all of the kinks of the deal, they will have the opportunity to take away the Linux market from Red Hat. Even though I think Red Hat is awesome, I don’t think that a monopoly on any product or service is right. Competition is the backbone of this country and it would be nice to see that with Linux.
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It is not surprising that the internet has reached 100 Million websites considering every one can make a website nowadays. In Mid 1995, there were 18,000 websites and now there are 5,555 times more websites than there was 11 years ago. Since blogs became big a few years ago, websites have been huge because there are affordable and easy to create.
Check out the video from CNN and their article about it
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Welcommen! Because there are so many scripts we have to write that are necessary for the operation of qmail, the instructions are online so you can copy and paste the text into your scripts. Please be sure to read the instructions and not only the commands, you will miss important informaiton if you do!
Ok, the first step is to download the source for qmail. Also, you’ll need to download ucspi-tcp and daemontools. ucspi-tcp replaces inetd as the tcp server on your computer. This is not necessary, but is highly recommended by the creator of qmail to avoid issues. Daemontools, like ucspi-tcp is not mandatory, however it includes a tool called supervise which monitors services on your computer and restarts them if they die. You can see the importance of this if you were running a actual mail server.
* qmail, http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.05.tar.gz
* ucspi-tcp, http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
* daemontools, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
Now we need to unpack the tarballs. Change to the directory where you saved the tarballs.
su
umask 022
mkdir -p /usr/local/src
mv netqmail-1.05.tar.gz ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz /usr/local/src
mkdir -p /package
mv daemontools-0.76.tar.gz /package
chmod 1755 /package
Now you can unpack the packages.
cd /usr/local/src
gunzip netqmail-1.05.tar.gz
tar xpf netqmail-1.05.tar
cd netqmail-1.05
./collate.sh
cd ..
gunzip ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
tar xpf ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar
rm *.tar
cd /package
gunzip daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
tar xpf daemontools-0.76.tar
rm *.tar
There should now be directories called /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05, /usr/local/src/ucspi-tcp-0.88, and /package/admin/daemontools-0.76.
Since qmail’s installation program creates the subdirectories as they’re needed, you only need to create the qmail “home” directory:
mkdir /var/qmail
Now to add users. In the source directory you’ll find a file called INSTALL.ids.
cd /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/netqmail-1.05
In this directory is a file called INSTALL.IDS. This is a script file with commands for many different types of systems. Typically you would copy the file and remove the commands that you don’t want from the new file. However, for this lab just create a new file called IDS and paste the following into it:
/usr/sbin/groupadd nofiles
/usr/sbin/useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias alias
/usr/sbin/useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaild
/usr/sbin/useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaill
/usr/sbin/useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmailp
/usr/sbin/groupadd qmail
/usr/sbin/useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailq
/usr/sbin/useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailr
/usr/sbin/useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmails
Now we need to run the script.
chmod 700 IDS
./IDS
When the script finishes, all of your users and groups will be created.
Now you can start building qmail. Change to the /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/netqmail-1.05 directory and let’s get started:
cd /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/netqmail-1.05
Edit the files conf-cc and conf-ld and change “cc” to “gcc”. Then type the following:
make setup check
After the build is complete, you’ll need to do your post installation configuration. A couple of scripts are provided to make this job a lot easier.
./config
YAY! qmail is installed! Now we’re about 1/4 done!
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Earlier, you unpacked the qmail, ucspi-tcp, and daemontools tarballs. Now change to the ucspi-tcp directory:
cd /usr/local/src/ucspi-tcp-0.88
Edit the files conf-cc and conf-ld and change “cc” to “gcc”. Then do:
patch < /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/other-patches/ucspi-tcp-0.88.errno.patch
make
make setup check
Change to the daemontools build directory:
cd ../package/admin/daemontools-0.76
Once again, edit the files conf-cc and conf-ld and change "cc" to "gcc". Then do:
cd src
patch < /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/other-patches/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
cd ..
package/install
Ok, now create the file: /var/qmail/rc. This will be a boot script. Copy the following text into rc:
#!/bin/sh
# Using stdout for logging
# Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"
Now do this:
chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc
mkdir /var/log/qmail
At this point you need to decide the default delivery mode. There are a couple of options. The first, and most reliable is Maildir. However Maildir has limited MUA support. So we will go with Mailbox which is more supported. For more information consult INSTALL.mbox, INSTALL.maildir, and INSTALL.vsm.
echo ./Mailbox >/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery
Alright, now we need to make the qmail startup script. Without this script, qmail would not fully start at system boot. Create the following file: /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl. Copy and paste the following into the script.
#!/bin/sh
# For Red Hat chkconfig
# chkconfig: - 80 30
# description: the qmail MTA
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
export PATH
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
case “$1″ in
start)
echo “Starting qmail”
if svok /service/qmail-send ; then
svc -u /service/qmail-send /service/qmail-send/log
else
echo “qmail-send supervise not running”
fi
if svok /service/qmail-smtpd ; then
svc -u /service/qmail-smtpd /service/qmail-smtpd/log
else
echo “qmail-smtpd supervise not running”
fi
if [ -d /var/lock/subsys ]; then
touch /var/lock/subsys/qmail
fi
;;
stop)
echo “Stopping qmail…”
echo ” qmail-smtpd”
svc -d /service/qmail-smtpd /service/qmail-smtpd/log
echo ” qmail-send”
svc -d /service/qmail-send /service/qmail-send/log
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/qmail ]; then
rm /var/lock/subsys/qmail
fi
;;
stat)
svstat /service/qmail-send
svstat /service/qmail-send/log
svstat /service/qmail-smtpd
svstat /service/qmail-smtpd/log
qmail-qstat
;;
doqueue|alrm|flush)
echo “Flushing timeout table and sending ALRM signal to qmail-send.”
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok
svc -a /service/qmail-send
;;
queue)
qmail-qstat
qmail-qread
;;
reload|hup)
echo “Sending HUP signal to qmail-send.”
svc -h /service/qmail-send
;;
pause)
echo “Pausing qmail-send”
svc -p /service/qmail-send
echo “Pausing qmail-smtpd”
svc -p /service/qmail-smtpd
;;
cont)
echo “Continuing qmail-send”
svc -c /service/qmail-send
echo “Continuing qmail-smtpd”
svc -c /service/qmail-smtpd
;;
restart)
echo “Restarting qmail:”
echo “* Stopping qmail-smtpd.”
svc -d /service/qmail-smtpd /service/qmail-smtpd/log
echo “* Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting.”
svc -t /service/qmail-send /service/qmail-send/log
echo “* Restarting qmail-smtpd.”
svc -u /service/qmail-smtpd /service/qmail-smtpd/log
;;
cdb)
tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
chmod 644 /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
echo "Reloaded /etc/tcp.smtp."
;;
help)
cat <
start -- starts mail service (smtp connection accepted, mail can go out)
pause -- temporarily stops mail service (connections accepted, nothing leaves)
cont -- continues paused mail service
stat -- displays status of mail service
cdb -- rebuild the tcpserver cdb file for smtp
restart -- stops and restarts smtp, sends qmail-send a TERM & restarts it
doqueue -- schedules queued messages for immediate delivery
reload -- sends qmail-send HUP, rereading locals and virtualdomains
queue -- shows status of queue
alrm -- same as doqueue
flush -- same as doqueue
hup -- same as reload
HELP
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|doqueue|flush|reload|stat|pause|cont|cdb|queue|help}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Make the qmailctl script executable and link it to a directory in your path:
chmod 755 /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl /usr/bin
Now we need to create the supervise scripts so that daemontools will restart qmail if it should unexpectedly stop:
mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log
mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log
Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run file:
#!/bin/sh
exec /var/qmail/rc
Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run file:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file:
#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me`
if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ]; then
echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in
echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then
echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!"
echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay"
exit 1
fi
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
Create the concurrencyincoming control file:
echo 20 > /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming
chmod 644 /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming
Create the /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run file:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
Make the run files executable:
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run
Then set up the log directories:
mkdir -p /var/log/qmail/smtpd
chown qmaill /var/log/qmail /var/log/qmail/smtpd
Finally, link the supervise directories into /service (The /service directory is created when daemontools is installed):
ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service
Qmail will now start, however, we don’t want it running quite yet.
qmailctl stop
Now we have to allow localhost to inject mail via SMTP.
echo ‘127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=”"‘ >>/etc/tcp.smtp
qmailctl cdb
Next we have to stop and disable the installed MTA. This is how to do it in RedHat:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
If the above doesn’t work, then find sendmail’s PID and kill it.
Ok, to prevent conflicts, we need to prevent sendmail from starting up in the future. The following method is a bit unorthodox, however it’s pretty easy to undo if you decide not to keep qmail. Edit the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail. Scroll down to the bottom of the file. Right under the comment “See how we are called.” simply comment out the line that says “start”. DO NOT comment any other line including the line “start)”.
Before we start qmail, we need to make sure nothing is listening to port 25:
netstat -a | grep smtp
You should have received no output. If you do receive output, make sure you find the culprit before continuing. Now replace any /usr/lib/sendmail with the qmail version.
mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.old # ignore errors
mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.old # ignore errors
chmod 0 /usr/lib/sendmail.old /usr/sbin/sendmail.old # ignore errors
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin
Now we must create the standard mail aliases. Note that all of these aliases point to root either directly or indirectly. If you want to change who gets mail sent to the following aliases you may change it here. See INSTALL.alias for more information:
echo root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
echo root > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
ln -s .qmail-postmaster /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
ln -s .qmail-postmaster /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-abuse
chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
So that we can whitelist servers from spamassassin, run the following command to each user account:
spamassassin –lint
Edit the following file where {user} is the user name of each account
vi /home/{user}/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Where it says the whitelist section, add:
whitelist_from *@*.plymouth.edu
whitelist_from *@plymouth.edu
We now need to set the path where our Mailbox file is for mail clients to look at. You need to edit the profile mail setting.
vi /etc/profile
Edit the line that looks like this: MAIL=/var/spool/mail/{user}
Change it to look like this: MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox
For that to complete and to be able to read your mail, please restart the computer.
Now we can start qmail.
qmailctl start
Now run qmailctl stat to verify that the services are up and running. The output should look like this:
# qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 30303) 187 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 30304) 187 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 30305) 187 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 30308) 187 seconds
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
All four services should be “up” for more than a second. If they’re not, you’ve probably got a typo in the associated run script or you skipped one or more steps in creating the necessary files, directories, or links.
If everything seems to be working correctly, show that sendmail isn’t running and send and receive email and show the results to us.
If you have any other questions, check out the Lifewithqmail
Instructions and Installation provided to you by Timothy Haroutunian and Charles Newton
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Yesterday, I was wondering if there was a way to change the root password on the Mac in my office so that I could have full control of my computer. When you have a question like this, your first reaction would be to “Google It”, so I did. I found many helpful resources that guided me through this process.
(This is under the assumption that you have workable knowledge in Unix and a MAC)
1. First you need to verify that “root” is locked by running a simple command in the terminal. Make sure that the “.” is at the end of the line and that there is a space in between.
nidump passwd .
The output will look like this: root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/tcsh
2. Open NetInfo Manager which is located in:
Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> NetInfo Manager
3. Click on “users” in the second column and then click on “root” in the third column to show the data for root.
4. Click the lock on the bottom left hand of your screen to unlock the settings. You will need to authenticate with an administrative password
5. Delete what is in the password field and make sure the value does not have any extra spaces. Click on Domain and Save Changes
Right now, your root account is active with no password which can be very dangerous.
6. Go back to the Terminal and type the following
su root (or just su)
When it asks for a password, just hit enter (you deleted the password in the last step)
Type in: passwd root
Enter in a new password and then confirm your new password
7. Log out of root and then su back in to make sure that it works
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Nintendo Wii is one of the most anticipated game console release ever. Wii is being released tomorrow (November 19th, 2006) and it is a video game revolution because of how unique it is. Check out Zach’s post on Wii Launch for more information about the hardware, specs and game releases. Here is a look what the Wii is like:
I am extremely excited about the Wii because I hope that I will have one real soon, however, finding one will be much harder even though they are producing so many more Wii consoles than Sony’s Playstation 3. Yesterday (November 17th, 2006) Sony released the PS3 and I don’t think that it is going to be as effective as they want it to be. The price on the PS3 is $499 or $599 which is a little extreme for pricing if you ask me, however if you really want to know how much you should be paying, consider this. For Sony to produce the PS3, it costs them a little over $830, and they are selling it for $599 which means that they are losing over $230 for each PS3 that they sell. They planned to produce 200,000 units of the PS3 which is much less than the demand of 1,000,000 units they need.
Wii on the other hand, from July to September Nintendo produced 2,000,000 units and they are scheduled to produce another 7,000,000 to 9,000,000 units on top of that. That is going to be the difference between which company does better on the new game console. But wait theres more. Nintendo was thinking when they figured out pricing because the Wii is going for $250 with a Wiimote and Wii Sports (package game). If you buy one game on top of that like Madden 2007, you are spending $300 which is 1/2 the price of the PS3.
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Here is a anti-drug commercial in the 1990’s trying show people a visual analogy of what doing drugs will do to your brain.
Effective, right? Now, take the same concept and move forward about 15 years.
Which one is more likely going to portray the reality of what drugs can do to your system. You be the judge. However, the next two videos are really effective in my book. (Thanks to Cliff for the reference)
On a side note, check out the what Zach blogged about on “DRUG ADDICTION”. World of Warcraft == Birth Control
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YouTube, Inc. recently bought out by Google, Inc. for $165 Million has just made a deal with the National Hockey League to post 2-5 minute clips of Hockey Games starting this month. Their hope is that if the NHL legally uploads clips to its own Hockey Channel then users will not be uploading hundreds of clips a day.
Under the deal, YouTube technology will help identify and remove illegally posted NHL clips as well as share revenue from advertising placed next to the content. The NHL will also have its own dedicated Web channel on the site.
Kevin Donahue, YouTube Vice President for Content, stated that they will be working with other professional sporting teams to try and come up with the same type of deal.
More information to come when I receive it.
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Since the last time that I posted pictures of Cameron, he has grown so much. He is now 9 months old and every time I see him, he is bigger. I can not wait to get home to spend time with him and my family during Thanksgiving.
I have set up a Blog for him at CameronHeichman.net
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Greetings & Civilities |
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hello (informal) good morning congratulations cheers |
barev shat lav charjhe kenats’t |
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Getting Around |
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how many km? airport straight |
kani kilomet’r e? avtobusi kayaran ughigh |
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Around Town |
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where is (the) … monastery restaurant |
vortegh e …? Manukian Poghots vostikan restaurant / jasharan |
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America/American Israel/Israeli Azerbaijan/Azeri |
Amerika/Amerikatsi Israel/H’rea Azerbaijan/Azeri |
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bird mouse pig |
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apricot cheese watermelon |
dziran khaghogh dz’meruk |
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Small Talk |
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what is your name? what does this mean? i am sick |
anun’t inch e? tarkmanich em uzum hivand em |
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Accomodation |
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do you have … ? air-conditioning heat |
unek … ? zukaran jerutsich |
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Shopping |
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how much? cheaper to buy |
inchkan? inch arjhe? pak g’nel |
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tas inisun haryur |
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sunday friday weekend |
kiraki hingshapti shapataverch |
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hunvar hulis dektemper |
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