Archive for January, 2005

Well, Internet Explorer cost me my XP installation. It let in an ActiveX control wich then let in about 10938210897340298432 peices of spyware and Virii.

So now I’m trying to figure out my options. If at all possible, I would like to de-partition the drive that the OS is installed on, and re-format it. Though I might look through the Hard Drive Box Of Doom [tm] in the basement to see if there is a 10 or 17 gig drive down there to act as a new root drive for it. That would be ideal. Then I could kill the old drive afterwards and move all the data to the new drive.

Anyways. I hate XP and it’s inablity to NOT GET HACKED EVERY 15 MINUTES.

Aparently the ~username functionallity is enabled on scummbox, as that cheeky monkey mark00z made a page for himself

I’m having some problems with postfix as my mail daemon. I’ve piggybacked on to sympatico’s outgoing mail so I don’t have to worry about being an invalid sender, but try as I might, I can’t get scummbox to take incoming mail. Anyone with information either about postfix or another mail system that is easier is encouraged to comment

So I have Apache 2 installed on Scummbox.org right now, and I wanted to get away from using Zone Edit‘s URL forward (way too many hops) so I took a friends suggestion and started playing with Apache’s Virtual Hosts.

I erased the blog.scummbox.org URL forward at Zone Edit, and created (after several syntax problems) a virtual host. I *thought* it worked, but it turns out the DNS hadn’t cleared for the forward from Zone Edit yet. Boo-urns.

I also tried creating a virtual host for my girlfriend’s blog, and that is when everything went a very annoying way.

I started getting Error 400 pages about SSL of all things. All the online man pages for Apache didn’t say ANYTHING about a SSL issue with named virtual hosts, so I deleted and recreated those hosts about a million ways. via Vhosts.conf, directly in http2.conf, via Webmin’s Apache configuration… nothing.

Then I found this page wich stated:

Do not use name-based virtual hosts in conjunction with a secure Web server as the SSL handshake occurs before the HTTP request identifies the appropriate name-based virtual host. Name-based virtual hosts only work with the non-secure Web server.

Well, damn. I should have been searching for “apache 2.0 virtual hosts” on Google’s linux search.

so it was rpm -e apache-mod_ssl and now the virtual host for blog.scummbox.org works perfectly

I still have to tweak the Movable Type config for iolarah’s blog, as Movable Type doesn’t render properly through the virtual host until I tell it to for some reason.

It’s so awesome having the ability to create virtual hosts at will. Muy Bueno!

As long as I have this space for no real reason, I’m going to detail the specifics on scummbox.org.

Due to a semi-recent emergecy chassis change, Pants is no longer a Dell workstation. Current specs are: Celeron 333 processor, 380 mb RAM, 6 gb Samsung hard drive, standard 10/100 DLink NIC, a 3D Prophet video card (GeForce 2).

The power supply is (I believe) a 250W, and is very quiet. The chassis and power supply were both kicking around (iolarah’s old case, and my old PS). Everything in the machine was lying around.

Future upgrades: More HD space and RAM for now. Maybe a slight processor increase if I can find a PIII or something for cheap.

I’ll get into the Linux install on another post

So another lucrative front page update for Scummbox.org!
Things are starting to cook! Don’t forget to check out iolarah’s Blog that I host

I love that I’m finally doing something with the domain aside from hosting images and running a shell service.

Anyone else have any ideas for the site?

Today’s plans include looking for a new used winter coat in Kensington Market. I need a nice long-ish coat (preferably wool) that is cinched at the waist to keep me warm in the HELLISH CANADIAN WINTARS!!1!

Aside from that, there is just a little tweaking to do on Scummbox (maybe getting teh EH-MAIL working) and other such sloth-like things!

Wow! I finally have bloggy-type ability on Scummbox.org now! Whoda thunk it?

I can totally see me abusing this to all hell, or just totally forgetting about it. But hey, it’s neat and stuff.

I guess that’s it for now!