Welcome to the new year

Posted on January 8, 2007 by Jeremy Clark

I know I haven’t updated in awhile but I’ve been busy with work and at home I’ve been finishing up my new CentOS server. I finished moving the mail over along with ASSP, I’ve also finished with the DNS server and DHCP (this was a pain getting dynamic dns updates to work). Pretty soon I will be retiring my old Win2k server, I’ve found a solution for WSUS, run a virtual machine with Win2k and WSUS running for my automatic updates. I’m going to do away with active directory completely.

If you might have noticed I’ve updated my blog software to WordPress. So far I really like the ability to add new functionality without having to hack into the php code. The admin interface is also alot more intuitive.

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Welcome to the new server

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Jeremy Clark

It’s so shiny and new feeling. Can you still smell that new server smell? No? Well maybe you can’t but It’m still proud of it. Right now the new CentOS server is running two websites, this one and Clark Construction which still hasn’t been completed yet. This is my first time using Apache and so far it’s been relatively painless. I know one thing PHP sure was easy to install. In fact I didn’t have to install it since the Apache and PHP packages were installed when I built the server.

I’ve also got the mail server configured and tested but haven’t brought it live yet. I’m using sendmail and dovecot for SMTP and IMAP, and SquirellMail for webmail. The interesting part will be getting all the old mail transferred over from my old server.

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New Gaming Machine Part 2

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Jeremy Clark

I just finished putting together my new gaming rig. I have to say it was one of the least painful builds that I’ve done in a long time. Everything just seemed to fit right where it needed to go. The only problem I ran into was Windows setup not recognizing my USB floppy when I need the SATA drivers. So I just robbed a floppy out of another machine.

I decided against going with the Abit board in favor of a Foxconn board and I have to say I’m very pleased. I was a little concerned about the memory voltage not being high enough by default. I read a couple reviews stating that the Abit board didn’t work with 1.9V memory which is what I had already ordered, so I found the Foxconn board on sale at Newegg.

The one thing I do know is this thing is fast. Windows was installed and up and running in 10 minutes. Keep in mind that this was a full install, with formatting a 150 GB drive, of XP SP2b.

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Diving into Linux

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Jeremy Clark

Recently at work I was introduced to a flavor of linux called CentOS. Now don’t get me wrong I’ve had some experience with linux. I’ve played with Red Hat 9, but that was just the workstation flavor. This OS is a full blown enterprise server, based on Red Hat Enterprise. So all yesterday I downloaded the four ISO disc set.

Eventually I plan on replacing the server I’m currently using with this new server. It was my old gaming machine so it will have plently of power. Namely, an Athlon 64 3400+, 3 gigs of ram, Gigabit Ehternet, and SATA Raid (don’t think I’m going to implement it though). The only thing I’ll miss is the Windows only WSUS. If you don’t know it handles Windows updates so they only have to be downloaded once then all computer on the network point to it to get Automatic Updates. I haven’t decided yet, I may leave the old server up as well.

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ASSP Installation

Posted on September 27, 2006 by Jeremy Clark

Recently I’ve starting getting more spam to my home email server, so I decided to find a solution for that. What I came up with was a project on sourceforge called . Although I ran into some problems I thought were cause by this program, but were in fact casued by a new anti-spam policy just implemented by my ISP. The process is a little long so I will continue my explanation below. Keep in mind this is written for Windows (this guide is written assuming that a current mail server is up and running).

First and foremost you want to make sure you backup your server. After that you’ll want to gather the software that you’ll need. You’ll need an installation of perl, I found mine at . Installation of that is simple wizard based.

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