Today I was trying to update my mail server, a CentOS 4.2 machine with Bill Shupps qmail toaster. After running “yum update” I noticed that exim was going to be installed as a dependency. I was afraid another mail server on my machine was going to mess things up, so I canceled the update. Then I began the frustrating process of trying to figure out what depended on exim. (more…)
March 25, 2006
March 17, 2006
Xchat vs Gaim (and the Rule of Least Surprise)
Yesterday folks were talking about collaborating for a much needed presentation on IRC in the #lug/ip channel on freenode.net. I jumped into the conversation late, but in regards to the discussion of what IRC clients to cover, I chimed in that on the next release of the LUG/IP GNU/Linux, Xchat would be configured to automagically connect to irc.freenode.net and join #lug/ip. Immediately people began asking “What about Gaim?” My answer: I have no plans to do that. (more…)
