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So laugh at me I haven't done much cool. The only thing I'm proud of is getting updatedd to work under Fedora. It kept giving errors about directory's not existing, I added a line to change directory's to the top, it worked. And the other thing I did to it I don't know why it worked. Because updatedd made you manually input the IP I hated it. I changed it to automatically figure out the new IP.
Talked clients out of winnt/2k servers and into a linux-samba-sendmail-firewall server..
Used apache and tomcat with java for a few years.. I love the flexability and it helps feed the fam.
DVD support back in the day with xine
Xinerama is pretty cool.
Intrusion detection reporting to centralized server for monitoring
Controlled an equinox board with 24 modems to test throughput into a remote access server and back into the ethernet port on the linux box to check for latency and packet loss.
GPS with the nextel phones.
Running vmware to use winXP.
Using linux exclusivly for all buisness apps.. No ms office....!!!!!!
-- a mail server that uses fetchmail to grab my pop3 mail every 5 minutes, runs it through clamav, procmail, spamassassin, then dumps it to /home/davis/Mail where I can check it using Mutt over a SSH session from anywhere.
-- using nget and a few "config" files to automatically download the latest newsgroup headers, search them for things on my list, and then download them .. all cron'd to run at 1am. No more wasted time going through newsgroups anymore
-- scripting almost everything I can. (see example above). from nightly backups, to pulling pictures off my digital camera, running them through imagemagick to resize them and create thumbnails, then wrapping html around them and putting them in my kids website directores.
-- oh, hosting all of my personal websites from my house .. and one for a guy that pays me for hosting.
-- running snort off a second nic that's tied into a hub that sits inbetween my cable modem and my wireless router. I love going throug ACID and seeing the latest MS worm trying its best to bury itself in my network
-- doing everying in console: mp3s (mpg123), mail (mutt), news (nget or slrn), p2p (giFT), image conversion (image magick), installing software (emerge or apt-get), aim (ntaim), irc (epic) .... etc
I could go on and on but this list is already long enough.
nothing really cool... I can't get most of the thing working d00h...
1. managed to run YARE (ragnarok server)
2. get most of my hardware working (damn.. this is hard)
I would like to run counter-strike on my system but always get errorrs
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