archives by month

listening to:
lamb - lamb
dj shadow - new stuff
chemical bros - come with us
luminous - luminous
badmarsh & shri - signs
dead can dance box set
nicola conte - bossa per due
safri duo - episode II
bjork - vespertine
tricky - blowback
garbage - beautiful garbage
count basie - april in paris
james brown - greatest hits
radio k 770 AM

recently read:
Stupid White Men
Crashing The Party
Kon-Tiki
Desert Solitaire
The Endurance
Harry Potter #3
Wired mag
Moviemaker mag


must-view sites:
Minnescoota!
Minnesota Green Party
Pentel For Governor
Radio K 770 AM
KFAI Radio
CSA Images

DollarShort
Fireland
Scripting News
Michael Moore

IFP North
2-pop.com
FlickTips
MovieMaker Mag
FilmMaker Mag
DV Creators
IMDB
AllMusic
Minidisc.org
Salon.com
Photographica
Digital Camera Resource
Digital Photography Review

Macintouch
MacMinute
MacCentral
MacNN
MacOSRumors
AsTheAppleTurns


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Wanna big fat clue about how to make your new *nix server setup easier? Here are two clues: don't try to run your own DNS (BIND) and don't try running SENDMAIL. My word! How the hell does any normal person have a chance to get these two things configured and running properly?! It is like quantum physics or DNA-splicing. Even with a "Dummies" book! Ha. O'Reilly, actually.
Through much trial and even more tribulation I finally discovered that having your registrar (if they are cool) do your DNS is the free, easy way to go. Oh yes. And forget Sendmail. Get yourself Postfix instead. It fully replaces sendmail, runs like sendmail, but (get this) you can figure it out and it works! What a relief.
Maybe I'll move all this (this server) over to the new one someday soon...
Wait! Here's a third clue (which I did not use): Mac OS X