Good Email Sig ;)

Windows: “Where do you want to go today?”
Linux: “Where do you want to go tomorrow?”
FreeBSD: “Are you guys coming, or what?”

I’m doing pretty well with my ankles, and have started crutching around (mostly) full time. My left ankle is healing up nicely, and I just started physical therapy on my right one. The muscle atrophy is quite amazing – I was already pretty skinny… 😛

Fitting Fortune

[michael@apollo ~]$ ssh slack
michael@slack's password:
Last login: Thu Mar 17 14:49:09 2005 from apollo
Linux 2.6.11.

If God had intended Man to Smoke, He would have set him on Fire.

michael@slack 15:45:32 ~ $

Gaim with SSL on Slackware-Current

Recently, Pat removed Mozilla-1.7.5 from Slackware-Current and replaced it with Mozilla-Firefox-1.0.1. I use a Jabber server that only accepts SSL connections, and after the upgrade to Mozilla-Firefox, Gaim failed to connect with the error, “SSL support unavailable”.

root@slack 11:51:10 ~ # echo /usr/lib/firefox >> /etc/ld.so.conf
root@slack 11:51:21 ~ # ldconfig

Gaim finds the nss and nsspr libs and the connection works perfectly, again 🙂

Slackware Update

Patrick V. is slowly working back into the swing of things. The slacksec.org folks have moved their site to another host, and the donated server will be retired. My mirror may be dated, since name resolution for slacksec.org failed for many days, and I disabled my sync script, after tiring of the error emails. I will check out their rsync setup in a day or so.

I wish Patrick the very best, and a steady recovery.