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If you are getting a 'collect: premature EOM: unexpected close' in your mail logs, or if you have people complaining that they cannot send email to your server and you have this error, then I might have a solution to your problem.
To solve this error I found this link by searching in Google:
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.10
which led me [...]

In our bathroom we have a shower with one of those sophisticated temperature balancing Moen tap units. After all, we wouldn't want to scald the kids while they were bathing if someone else in the house turned on the cold water.
Four years ago the contractor who replaced all of our galvanized piping for copper, put [...]

Today I discovered a couple of downfalls with the Wordpress thumbnail generation functions. When you upload an image in Wordpress, it will automatically create a thumbnail, but not ALL the time. By default, if the image uploaded is too big, that is, it has more pixels than 1024 x 1024 x 3, or 3MB in [...]

Well, a week has passed and I have my consumption usage for my computer set up. With normal usage, my entire computer set up, not counting my large Tektronix color laser printer, uses a whopping 63KWh each week. Or 3276KWh per year. Now, lucky for me, I live in Quebec and our electricity only [...]

I was looking for a really simple plugin for WP to allow me to search both posts and static pages. The perfect script for my needs was found over at RandomFrequency for WP 2.0 and earlier. Of course it stopped working in WP 2.1, due to the new field in wp_posts which is post_type. I [...]

Well, it's been a little longer than a couple of days, but as promised here is the second installment of my Kill-A-Watt story. Those of you just tuning in, I bought a Kill-A-Watt meter. Basically you plug it into an outlet, and plug your electric device into the Kill-A-Watt, and presto, it will tell you [...]

Like many people, we still use a VCR. No TiVo or Digital Recording device, nor fancy computer setup to record out television shows. Just a VCR. Maybe you don't know what a VCR is? It is an ancient device from times past that allows one to record analog television signals onto a magentic tape, for [...]

If you are looking for a background pattern for a website, as I was, here is a great site to bookmark. Although the site was a little bit daunting when I first looked at it. Once you figure out your way around the site, you will find a pile of pretty cool things to look [...]

No no, this is not an article about how much land fill is being created by Apple. Nor is this about how much toxins are being dumped into our soil by Apple. This is Part I of a blog on the power consumption of my computer. Why am I doing this? Simple: I bought a [...]

If you run Urchin locally on your machine, you might have noticed that access_logs are turned off by default, while error_log's are turned on by default. Turning access logs on is easy but there is a little trick.
First off, I have my Urchin installed in /usr/local/. The conf files for the Urchin webserver are [...]