Archive for March, 2006

a gift for my eyes

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I have been spending a few extra hours at work and my eyes are getting real dry 🙁 which made me start thinking that starting at a 17″ CRT is not the best way to keep my eyes in good shape. My friend and fellow gawaberian, Mahmoud got me thinking about getting an LCD. And […]

The tooth ache

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Woe be uppon any who do not take extra care of their teeth! (or visit a bad dentist)! You will pay the price of your negligence (or your nieveness) in pain, pure pain!! To cut a long story short, I am getting a root canal done becuase of a filling leakage! And I am in […]

esmtp

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

I have always have setup the MTA on my local server to do local delivereies only (it only listens on 127.0.0.1)! I have never realy needed to send mail from it. I was browseing debian packages when I found esmpt; a relay only MTA. I thought that it would be perfect for me. It is […]

installing a DNS Server

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

I am connected to the super highway via a speedtouch 510 ADSL modem. I used the DNS and DCHP features of the modem. The problem? well the modem doesn’t support MX type DNS queries. so I can’t send email from by server becuase I can never look up the recipents mail server 🙁 Now bind9 […]