Outbound mail

I recently set up a security camera and wanted to be able to mail myself security events. The first thing I had to do was get AT&T to open port 25 from my house. This was painlessly done by asking an agent in the online support chat. Within a minute of asking if it can ...

Moved to a new host

I have been working on moving my website to a new host over the last couple days, so here are a few of the things that “got me” along the way. I created an account with hostmonster.com to take advantage of “unlimited” drive space as well as the ability to ssh into my web server. ...

Making a VM server

I have almost finished building the system I am going to use as a MythTV Frontend, but in the meantime I have decided to put the system together and make a VM server to learn RedHat related things a little better. First thing I did was try to install CentOS from a DVD I had ...

New blog

I got tired of trying to figure out why I couldn’t get Serendipity to look the same across multiple browsers and kept seeing WordPress everywhere I looked. I originally didn’t think I could install WordPress on my free GoDaddy site because there was a charge to install it. This made me believe that the site ...

Re-installing Serendipity

I was getting very frustrated that I could not get any of the Serendipity themes to work properly in Firefox and decided to install it on my home PC to test. I am hosting on a free (ad supported) GoDaddy linux server and initially chose to use the GoDaddy automatic installation of Serendipity. However, the ...

First Post

Just set up Serendipity as the blogging software on my hosted website. With a quick look through the settings I see that I have a bit of research to figure out how to make this look good. At the moment it looks very ugly and I don’t know how to change anything. Here’s a screenshot ...