Yearly Archives: 2009

Binaries: Speed Bumps for Server Admins

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Captain Thomas Mashek

Setting up an IRC server is pretty simple as long as you make sure to read the man pages and any other information given (especially the INSTALL file). Of course, that doesn’t really work all that well when you go about things the way I did initially.

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo by Forest & Kim Starr (http://www.hear.org/starr)"]Photo by Forest & Kim Starr[/caption]I first started researching different IRC daemons to use in Ubuntu Server, and settled upon one. Finding that there was already a binary for it inside the Ubuntu repository, I decided to go that route. Quick and easy, yeah? IRC set up painlessly and after a quick configuring of the ircd.conf, I thought everything was dandy. I logged in and queried NickServ to register my nick, only to find there was no such nickname or channel. Looking this up, I realized I needed to set up some Services. I found the package I wanted to use and set about configuring it for use. I got it to set up and everything was a-okay, except for the fact that I could not get global operator working. Continue reading →

Embed a Terminal Into Desktop

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Captain Thomas Mashek

There are some neat things that I have been looking into for customizing my installation of Ubuntu 9.04, one of which is embedding a terminal into the desktop so that I don’t have to worry about closing it on accident … Continue reading →

Google Reveals M-Lab

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Captain Thomas Mashek

As I was perusing computer and business news this morning, I came upon this interesting article. Google has revealed a new set of tools to help us Internet users figure out whether or not we are getting the Internet services … Continue reading →