Hacker for Hire

Ok, so to answer it for everyone (anyone?) who reads this … Yes, my server was down from Friday afternoon until 12:30 today. This is because I was moving and unfortunately, the cable company does not jump at my bidding as they should … rat bastards; however, Hacker for Hire is now back up and running along smoothly again (until sometime later tonight when I put in a new processor fan) and will continue to do so until I deem it no longer worth it. In retrospect, this never would have been an issue if I had my server at a co-location facility, but that’s not warranted at the moment, maybe if people come and ask for domain hosting and what not that I can afford to do something like that, we’ll see about making that a possibility.

Since the server was down this weekend, I had a small back log of posts (not too long) for your reading pleasure. So here you go just in case you were wondering, enjoy.

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Qualified and Certifiable

Well, I have officially joined the ranks of those certified by Cisco. I’m officially a Cisco Certified Network Associate. This is basically the change you could expect to see:

Previous:
Sincerely,

Wyatt Neal

Now:
Sincerely,

Wyatt Neal

CCNA

The cool thing is that this might help me look much better to Xetron than I did previously, if they need that sort of thing. However, I’m also slightly disappointed. After contacting my boss and telling him of my efforts, it appears that there will be no reward such things. Now I’m not one of those people who needs a pat on the back every time I do something right, but when it’s discussed previously that there will be compensation for such achievements and then there is a blatant display of dodging previous discussions from management, it’s a little frustrating. Could just be another reason I am not satisfied with this company, who knows, but at least it should increase my Dice/Monster resume traffic as well as other potentials if Xetron falls through.

Hacker for Hire is now pleased to bring you full service domain, web, and email hosting. Prices vary from free to “why don’t I just run my own server?” That’s really all I have. If you’d like more information, you know the email. Oh, this service will probably be “sold” (a.k.a. haucked, chucked, lobbed) to HTG, Limited when we get underway.

W00t!!! We are officially moved out of that hellhole known as Tall Timbers. Thanks to a crack squad made of savvy engineers and almost as almost as engineer-like but just as savvy others, we were able to successfully move everything in 4 truck, 3 jeep, 1 car, and 1 minivan load(s). There was one point when we though that it was really going to suck when Katy our recon agent reported in that there was a black out at the drop off point. We were moving in the dark for a bit but by the time the munitions squad rolled up we were back in the light. Below are the shout-outs to everyone that came and pitched in. Thanks again!

In order alphabetically by last name:

Micah Brown: The amazing Spider-Bungee-Man with his insane bungee skills
Sara Cannon: Packin’ like there was a free one-way cruise to Hawaii and participating in the Felty-Squad
Willaim Cirone: The wheel man with the pickup and expert move-tastic-action skillz
Joe Harmon: The guy who likes moving because it’s fulfilling work … and because it’s good practice for the stairs
Katy Moeggenberg: For felt-tification of everything in my house and her kung fu candle bringing action
Steve Michalske: The long haul, but we’ll account that to the 4 hour drive from Cleveland
Sharon Schramm: Packin’ and stackin’ like we did so many times before, thanks Mom!

No, not the USPS guy, but that stupid ass little program that does email list management. All I did was flip the switch in postfix to say “hey, you now can host virtual domains” and BAM!!! Mailman instantly vomits all over itself like a bunch of wookies at a fur-ball contest. And of course, there are thousands of people on the net with my exact same problem:

Final-Recipient: rfc822; —–@freeplay.hackerforhire.org
Original-Recipient: rfc822; —–@hackerforhire.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 2:
“/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post —–”. Command output: Group mismatch
error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group
“mailman”, but the system’s mail server executed the mail script as group
“nobody”. Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group
“mailman”, or re-run configure, providing the command line option
`–with-mail-gid=nobody’.

Seems sort of obvious that I want the program to run with its own damn permissions. Well trying to find the solution to this is about as difficult as Micheal Jackson not using a daycare as a drive through. I tried every possible fix that I could and then I finally found something that seemed just so stupid it might be right. Apparently, if you have multiple aliases files (which I was unaware that I had) and one of them belongs to root, postfix will just star executing every damn thing it can as ‘nobody’ because that’s who owns every fricken file on you damn hard drive … NOT!!!

Shesh … that took me 4 hours to find. I figured I’d post it here in case I ever needed to do it again.

Well today marks the first offical day of suck because I am in the city I hate the most, Chicago. Unfortunately, I didn’t have this blog at the time to record the last Chicago trip for posterity; however, I’m damn sure going to do it with this one. Especially since it has started out so “wonderfully.”
Continue reading ‘Masquerading Hotels and the Science Board’ »

OK, I really like the new IM feature in Gmail, but I hate the fact I don’t have an option to turn off the little pop up bubbles that come up whenever you hover over a name; however, technology has come to the rescue where the Googlites have failed. Garett Rogers wrote this little grease monkey script to stop the pop ups (you can right click and install that if you like). Read the rest of the article here. Kudos to you Garett.

It’s been one week of nonstop work; but we have some bad ass floors. The third coat of urethane has been laid and is curing as you read (at least for another 14 days after this post it will be). I don’t really have much else to say other than thank you to everyone that helped make this possible. Below are the fruits of the labor (click for a lager image).

Oh yeah, the title is what Sara though the air smelled like after 3 hours of urethane fumes.

You know, I just can’t get over how cool it was to stuff those crapets in the Tall Timber’s dumpsters. Especially now that I’ve seen them absolutely packed and I know that it’s several days away from trash day. Kudos to Sara for the thought. However, back to more pressing business. The revampification of the hardwood floors in the new house.
Continue reading ‘Remodeling Part II: Got Wood?’ »

Well, this is obviously a bad omen … I’ve had possession of my house for less than 24 hrs and I have successfully dismantled it . Today we attacked the nasty carpet in the house.
Continue reading ‘Remodeling Part I: Two Dumpsters’ »