April 2006

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Zimbra

Zimbra is a touted exchange killer application. I have always been interested in group-ware apps because I think they help connect people, solve scheduling conflicts and give users power to communicate better. And we all need help communicating. That being said on almost every install I do I always try to set up and configure a Open Source group-ware project. But every time I end up going back to my old stand by sendmail, dovecot, squirrelmail. Ugly but a completely functional system. Anyways I set up Zimbra's open source edition and have been running it for a few days. When I have a little more time to get in depth with its features I will right a review. For now you can check out thier homepage here forums here and flash demohere. As a admin and a user from what I have seen the app works exactly like the demo. So far so good.
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Work

So my new job is exactly that a job nothing great or glorious. I work on servers and take care of problems. But I work with a couple of guys..... it is hard to say I like them all the time but one guy here.... is fucking incredible..... we had a problem with one server not connecting correctly to another .... in one hour he trouble shot the actual problem found what process was running where on the machine and how to resolve it forced a c program to compile against its will figured out that the program was able to run and was done........ then when we still couldn't find the source of the problems he hopped back in and then from there ran 3 commands (one I am proud to say suggested not that he wasn't already thinking it) and showed us where the process was dying again. Fuckin amazing..... I couldn't believe it.
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DVD Review The Fanatastic 4

Quick Review Fantastic! A good movie, reasonable acting, excellent special effects (that are not used to carry the movie) and one hot chick. Long review, I read the comics as a kid and was let down quite a bit by Xmen 1 and 2. I wasn't holding out much hope for this one either. I was thinking this is gonna be another Spiderman CGI fest gone bad. Surprisingly I found the special effects to be used well not totally overdone. The Thing provided humor and reality to their situation. The Human Torch was the kinda guy we all want to punch. The invisible girl was the kind of girl we would all like to disappeared with. Finally Mr. Stretch........ he was the guy who we all thought "Why is she with him?" The group was well rounded and their acting worked well together. Doom was a good villain starting out to just be a cock but then turning into a full on bad guy and i thought the special effects from his powers were the best. Its really pointless to do a review of a old movie but I just wanted to say it was good.
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The truth about Patrick

I was trolling through the mug shots at the smoking gun. Celeberty mug shots are always fun. Super low quality make up and hair is ussaully totally messed. Then I found this little jem. You can read all about Axle/Patrick in Arizona here. Now normally I would not bat a eye at this....... but he kinda resembles this guy allot ! The one on the right. So I have to ask "Patrick or should I say Axle what are you really doing on all those out of town trips?" I think I have to much time on my hands. E./
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Congratulations

Congratulations to Brent and Miso Hernandez on the birth of baby Hyugo! I think I spelled it right. Hyugo was born yesterday 2006/04/12 at about 1230 in the afternoon. Both mother and baby are resting peacefully now. I will post a picture as soon as I get one! HINT HINT BRENT!!! This is the third child for the Hernandez family and also the third son! Way to go Brent! E;)
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ERRRRHHHH!!!!!

SO I left my phone at home yesterday. That is kinda a big deal these days. Satomi didn't contact me at all the whole day which is a bit strange. She usually sends me some e-mail asking me to check her English or whatever. I was really busy yesterday and did not notice till about 2 or 3 pm that I had left my phone at home. I had to see one of my friends after work and go to a meeting so I was I didn't get home till almost 10. I knocked and walked in. Jay who is my TEMPORARY roommate was there and his face was like thank god your here! Apparently Satomi called my cell a number of times and got worried so she called the apartments land line. She let it ring 20 times or so and Jay thinking it was me, because he saw my phone on the bed and picked up the house phone. Satomi was not sure what to think when he picked up they both got scared and hung up. Satomi then called my land lady who conveniently lives next door and asked her to check what was going on. She saw the light was on so she knocked on the door. Jay who I had told to be very quites about staying at my place didn't know what to do so he turned off the light and hope she would go away. Instead she opened the door and looked in (it wasn't locked). Seeing the unlocked door and hearing some one inside she got scared, ran back in her house and call the police. NOTHING exciting happens where I live. So to the cops it was like time to do some of that shit they see on American TV. 3 of them showed up at my place. Jay finally came to the door and explained that he was a friend just spending the night and I had left my phone at home. They asked him to call my wife which he did and explained to her what had happened. In the end no one got hurt and there was no big caper in progress so the police left and I arrived home about a hour later. The only thing I am worried about now is my land lady saying he cant stay there any longer. But man what a funny story. I apologized to my land lady this morning and will give her a gift this evening. E./
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WTF!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Nothings working. No really I finished up some stuff this morning and since then I havent had anything work. Yum is f*C$ed on my server and it will not let me update due to some glibc problem. Splunk is screwed on my work machine and I cant seem to get it to start the db I tried a new version of splunk and that wont install. WTF Today is almost over hopefully tomorrow will be better. E./
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Gallery!

Finnally I have finished the setup and import of all of my images into the Gallery2 Image system. The gallery system is a bit of a pain to set up and get all of the images into but I think the ease of use will easily outweigh the costs of time to set it up! Please take a minute to check it out. Soon user and file permissions will be able to be set and some things will be open to only family or friends depending on your catagory and so on. To get to the images just click the button the above that looks like this. Have fun, I hope you enjoy all the pics past present and future! E./
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Book Review

White Line Fever a auto biography by and about Lemmy from Motorhead. Quick review: This is what happens when you give a speed/coke freak a pen and then sit him down and convince him that his life was interesting enough he should write about it. Only for true Motorhead fans or ex-groupies looking for ways to get in touch with the potential father to thier bastard child. Click here to see it at Amazon Long Review: Fuck we are talking about Lemmy from Motorhead. When I think about a rock star.... I don't think Lemmy but that is just me. Lemmys book is at times entertaining if you ever dreamed of being a rock star. The only thing that is unusual about this book and Lemmy for that matter is his tenacity. Most people out grow parting their brains out night after night. Hell even I did. But every chapter in the book recronicles lessons shoulda been learned......... the first time around 20 times over. But he just keeps trudgin along. He wins some he looses some, fires some band mates re-hires old ones only to fire them again. Gets sick goes on tour and fires a record labels, managers and or stage hands. There are few books like this (that get published). I found his ability to explain how he bought a refrigerator for the mother of one of his kids cause she didn't have one..... right after he met up with her again WHILE BUYING COKE, disturbing. Then doesn't ever mention that kid again a little sad... I wonder how he feels about it. Or how he saw his other son while in CA for one day then the kid (technically not a kid anymore) bugged out and just left his dad to chase a skirt. Like father like son. Whatever.......... Lemmy is Lemmy his book is like most of his lyrics in coherent babble mixed with just a touch of truth and pain. He makes a couple of decent points here and there but mostly it is went here fucked a chick did some drugs and played AND WE ROCKED!!! If you enjoy talking to interesting people on crack........... read this....... if not don't. E./