Author Archives: D-Caf

About D-Caf

I'm a computer geek, what more is there to say?

Cafaro.net is now on IPv6 with Linux, Apache, and WordPress

So I finally took the time and got www.cafaro.net up and running on IPv6. I’ve had the addresses for a while and getting Linux up and talking IPv6 is pretty straight forward. All you need is to add some lines … Continue reading

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Replacement for telnet as a service sanity check

For years now I’ve used telnet as a quick and easy way to check to see if the most basic network functionality of a service like http is working. I.e. I telnet to port 80 and see the raw server … Continue reading

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Fixing Thunderbird + Enigmail + GPG-Agent passphrase cacheing on CentOS/RHEL 6

Ok this has been bothering me for a while, I upgrade my desktop to CentOS 6 to have a nice stable platform going forward from my previous Fedora 14 install and all was good.  Except Enigmail gpg passphrase caching broke.  … Continue reading

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Really not dead yet…. (Yes an update)

So it’s been over two years since my last post.  Been very busy in my life and haven’t had time to do as much tinkering and computer stuff at home as I usually would.  That’s not to say I haven’t … Continue reading

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Graduate School Complete!

Well after 2.5 years I just turned in my application to graduate from my Masters in Computer Science program at Georgetown University. I started the program in the Fall of 2007 with my first class, Information Retrieval (Basically Search Engine … Continue reading

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Sharp MM20 sold… Aspire One doing well

I decided it was a little much having two “netbooks” around, so I sold my trusty Sharp MM20 (a netbook that came out before anyone heard of netbooks) to another MM20 owner with all the accessories. So I’ve dedicated myself … Continue reading

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Finally an update.

So I’m finally getting near the end of my Grad School career and will slowly have some small bit of life back.  Hence the need to post.  Just a quick recap of events from this year since the last post: … Continue reading

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Aspire One up and running

So much for my concerted effort! So small update, EeePC is gone, had to return it for work, but it was replaced with an Acer Aspire One.  I received the AOA110-1698.  This model comes with Linpus Linux Lite, 1GB Memory, … Continue reading

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Ok, new year – new post

I’m going to make a concerted effort to post more frequently this year.  I’ve got several projects going on at home and at work that I’d like to document.  Here are a few things I’ll be writing up: 1.  Some … Continue reading

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Yuck, upgrade messes up text

Looks like I’ll have to do some cleanup on my blog.  Appears that the recent update to the software has caused misc  and †to show up in all the posts.  Ugh, this could take a while… UPDATE: ok … Continue reading

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