Tommorrow is the 1st of August, which happens to be the month I was born. I don’t share a lot of personal stuff on the blog, but I was wondering if anyone else finds that people really don’t remember birthdays. Maybe it is just me, I don’t really know, because I remember most of my friend’s birthdays. There is one person I would like to hear from, I doubt they read the blog or even remember my birthday, but considering how long we were friends it’d be good to an IM or an email.

I personally don’t care about birthdays much, but the 22nd of the month is always kinda nice. I quit smoking on the 22nd of March, so every year on my birthday I guess I get to celebrate having that extra time not being a smoker. This birthday I will be 25, and 3 years and 5 months away from the last cigarette I smoked. I am considering going for a vacation this birthday, maybe I will head out to Yuma to visit friends or just drive somewhere I havn’t been. I would hit up Vegas, but my savings is going into my car.

Thats right I am finally going to get my car back on the road and after that I move to Lexington and every morning at 6 you will find me working out in the gym. I am redoing the suspension, brakes, wheels are getting refinished, and whatever has to be done to the rear axle after my memorable road trip.

It is a couple days short of 1 year and 2 months since I made that drive and that is 1 year and 2 month too long that I have been in this county (not country). I live in this very back country county, there is no broadband for my city, and the people are still stuck in the 50’s in many ways. If you ran over your dog, the entire county would know before you did, that is how bad the rumor mill is. It is however a beautiful area and great if you are older and do not need a social scene.

Anyway there’s my personal post for the month, next one will probably be after my birthday. haha!

Such a lonely day
And it’s mine
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
Should be banned
It’s a day that I can’t stand

The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
Shouldn’t exist
It’s a day that I’ll never miss

Such a lonely day
And it’s mine
The most loneliest day of my life

And if you go,
I wanna go with you
And if you die,
I wanna die with you
Take your hand and walk away

The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
And it’s mine
It’s a day that I’m glad I survived

When I colocated everything I realized that I was pulling the CSS and ICO from a local trac environment. I have updated the post Automated Project Creation with the new link to download the template and CSS.

I just finished moving everything over to the new server. I just colocated DIGITAL39 and a few other sites on a box I have. It is a Pentium 4, 2.6HT with 1GB of DDR400, which will become 2GB soon. I have two SATA 120gb drives in RAID1 and thats about it. You should notice better performance and now that I am back on Linux I will be adding some more cool stuff to the site.

This topic has been discussed on other websites, however I have not read them yet I just remember seeing them. I have, in the past, changed configuration values and then later found I had better performance before I changed what I did. Rolling back can be difficult when you are doing a lot at once. A way around this is to start a subversion repository for system directories. This is something you will want to do as root to so that security is very restrictive. Also keep in mind this is the directory structure on a CentOS/RHEL 5 Box your distro may be different.

svn create /root/repo/config

svn co file:///root/repo/config /etc

cd /etc

svn add -N httpd/
svn add httpd/conf/
svn add httpd/conf.d/
svn add postfix/
svn add hosts
svn add hosts.deny
svn add hosts.allow
svn add php.d
svn add pear.conf
svn add my.cnf
svn add php.ini

svn commit

chmod 700 /root/repo/config

When adding the httpd directory you need to add the -N so that run, modules, and logs symlinks to not get added, then you add the conf and conf.d directories manually. The hosts files may seem strange, but if someone was to get in that might be a file they would want to modify. If it is modified you can simply do a svn status on the directory and see what has gone on. The last entry is so that only the root user can access any of the files. That means unless you are root or you can sudo you cannot check out or commit to that repository.

It might be a good idea to run a svn commit as a cron on the directory so any changes that are made will be updated and can be compared later. I would also recommend not adding any files that include passwords, for obvious reasons. If for some reason you submit a file with a password by accident run the svnadmin dump command, then do a search and replace in the dump file. After you have done that delete the repository on the server and create a new version off the dump file.