Kahn's Korner
/My college roommate, Kahn Evans, has started a blog. He’s been writing pretty consistently for a week or two, which is a good sign that he’ll stick with it, unlike some of my other friends. 
Two New Jobs
/UNI is looking to fill two IT positions. One is an Information Technology Specialist in the College of Education, the other is an Information Technology Specialist in the Library.
Dovecot certificate problems on RHEL 4
/If you've recently upgraded to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and are trying to generate a new self-signed certificate for the Dovecot IMAP server, you've probably found that simply typing "make dovecot.pem" doesn't work. What you have to do is generate one "by hand" using this command:
openssl req -new -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -nodes -keyout mykey.pem -out \ mycert-pem
Thanks to the folks on the Dovecot mailing list for helping me with that. :)
Yet Another UNI Blog
/One of the Computer Science faculty, Eugene Wallingford, also has a blog. I should have noticed this sooner, since he commented on a post of mine a few weeks ago, but I'm just now getting around to cleaning out my inbox.
Water Intoxication
/A student in California has died as part of a fraternity hazing ritual, but rather than the usual alcohol poisoning, this student died from ingesting too much water. If it was alcohol, you could bet your ass that there'd be some crackdown on booze, but somehow I don't think they're going to start restricting access to the faucets. My point here is that stupid behavior is what kills these people, it has almost nothing to do with what they're ingesting, so let's not blame the alcohol, let's start banning the Greek systems instead. Harsh? Yeah, it is, but seriously, why would you want to join an organization that does this to its members? Have some self-respect.
