Well, I suppose now is as good a time as any. I've since felt the need to give up using windows as my primary operating system as everything I generally need to do these days is on linux. I've been using Ubuntu probably for the last 2 yrs. I used to be an avid user of Mandriva, but I grew annoyed at the prospect of having to redo my entire system on a regular basis. Ubuntu allowed me to avoid fresh installs and just upgrade everything on my existing install. I'm currently on FIOS and I'm able to access port 80, 22 so I'm able to host an http & ssh server. FIOS is great, especially when you have 20/5 mbit connection. Unfortunately I can only use up about 10-15mbit of it since I'm currently only using 802.11g to access this throughput. If anyone has any questions about my experience with ubuntu just leave a message on the board. It seems to work on everything I've installed it on. I don't understand why some people don't like it. On a tangent note, I also run windows 7 on my other partition as my windows needs are satiated. I only dislike the fact that windows 7 seems to have problems with Skype which is also another thing I don't like about pulseaudio on Ubuntu 9.04 as skype still doesn't seem to behave all that well with. I don't consider 99% cpu usage on a laptop a very good idea--unless you want to burn up your computer.

Been running into some problems when compiling php5 on my mandrake 10.0 system because it has issues with the devel binary package on the apache rpm's and the repositories on cooker seem to be incomplete which is really starting to aggrivate me grrr....

Well, it's been a while since I have used Debian. As a matter of fact, debian was my first distro I learned how to install not including the multiple attemps I had tried with Redhat 7.2 - 9.0. Anyways I have decided I will once again try to grasp linux with a much more firm understanding of how things work. So far i've run Mandrake 9.0 - 10.0 for workstation purposes and also server purposes. I have learned a substantial amount considering the time I've used linux which can only really be amounted to about 4 months straight. This time I plan to go all the way -- I'm not saying i will convert -- But I do plan to be able to say with confidence that I am an experienced user of linux.

Well, i have since updated much of the backend of my current content managment system. I do have plans to release it as soon as i have finished it. It's internals are built so you can template the site with any engine you desire and you can still make it extremely functional. I built the api for the CMS to be extremely intuitive because that is how i learn and how i make things easier to develop for myself. I have about 90% of the overall CMS completed. If you notice, you will see on the left hand site of my site an archive of all the news / postings. That is the newest lib i've made to enhance the functionality of the system.

Damn it I say, It is impossible for me to figure out how to submit email through my smtp server. Why can't I RTFM and figure shit out like the rest of geeks in this world. Grrr, stupid postfix. I even tried using webmin to set this shit up and I still don't understand much of what the configuration options are even for. :(