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So, I should be getting a new server sometime in the next 6 months...

And here is what I want... I want a live CD distribution of some type of BSD that I can toss in the CDROM drive and boot up and run apache, bind, xmail, mysql, snort, and some kind of local packet filter.

You know, something simple...
Something that boots up, mounts a cheap little (probably old) swap drive, and a software raid drive (hardware would be cool, but hey, I'm cheap.. only hardware raid on my workstation) and sets up all my stuff....

But, alas, no-one has built such a thing that I can find...

I love m0n0wall..
Maybe I will dig in and see how they use php for the config stuff...

But, I will probably wind up using OpenBSD and rolling my own...

*sigh* Like that won't take too much time...

And I'm not sure I have a good way to test it, either... I mean, I update mysql on a CD image, reboot the server and have it barf...
So now I have to burn another new image? Man, I'm not that good..
I'd eat through CD's like I listened to music...

Some cool plugins have been added to Serendipity...

Jackson Miller has added two new plugins...

He added a DHTML Category Menu plugin and a word of the day (serendipity_plugin_wotd) plugin...

Both can be download from Mr. Miller's site, and the DHTML Category Menu has been added to CVS...

Alas, on my simple hardware they slow the page down... (Well, word of the day, not so bad... But the category menu does a pretty good job on it..)

(not that you would notice, considering how slow the server it is... Poor little Pentium Pro 233)

(Maybe soon I will buy a new computer... But probably not... (baby on the way and all))

(And anyways, I give most of my old hardware to Brad, so that I have someone to play games with... Currently he needs a new computer so that we can play Age of Mythology..)

Um, yeah...

Anyways, check out those plugins... They are pretty nice..
(though the DHTML categories menu plugin is stubborn... you need a pear package installed, then you need a javascript that isn't provided, then you need some images... and neither version works with PHP 4
Pretty harsh... But I think that will change...
If you have troubles, drop my a line and I can see about helping you out...)

Oh, Garvin has added an external LDAP authentication plugin to CVS which will be damn nifty when it's finished... I'm not running LDAP right now (dumped it a while back to squeeze more speed out of the machine).. but if that does well, it might be worth going back to...

Oh wait, I'm trying to get out of computers... damn skill set...