Ok, to start off with I learned a very valuable lesson today, I was under the assumption (since I hadn’t done it before) that saslauthd was only used by my mail system (yeah go figure I don’t know everything), I decided it would be a good idea to uninstall it as I moved mail handling to google apps. I initially set up the email to basically prove that I could do it and run it for a while without being used as an anonymous relay and such, so my install was *pretty* secure with all the normal caveats. So back to the lesson, I decided to uninstall saslauthd (smacks forehead) and it then decided to uninstall php5 and a bunch of other packages that I needed for the website to run (yes I obviously fixed it) but here are a couple of valuable lessons that I have learned:

1. If you have a global bashrc (or rc) alias rm to rm=’rm -i’ as soon as you setup the system (especially for root).
2. If you’re going to remove a package that you don’t really know much about, do a test run of some sort (all package managers have the functionality builtin (if they don’t why in gods name would you be using it?)).

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I have been thinking about this post for the past few days, and have been thinking of posting some grand review of comic con, but honestly it was a comic convention with some other stuff thrown in - pure and simple. I have been putting pressure on myself to write something meaningful and witty about comic con, but to be honest I had a lot of fun, mainly with the people that I went with. There were two people that I did get to meet that was awesome, one of my favorite actors
Thomas Jane which was way cool, he was really nice, I basically patted him on the shoulder looked him straight in the eye and said “Thank you”. He responded in kind by shaking my hand, I believe he understood what I meant. I thought he was an awesome Frank Castle (was my favorite comic growing up) and was absolutely phenomenal in The Mist As a side note, I think that autographs are a stupid idea in general (there are always exceptions my dears), but I wasn’t about to get someones signature. I also got to meet the director of one of my favorite horror movies, feast
John Gulager. I got to actually speak to him for a few moments which was cool and I am so looking forward to the next two movies in the series, he said that two goes the funny route, but 3 comes back to the roots and is scary, I can say if they’re anything like the original I am soooo stoked. Well that’s about it for now, not too much to report other than that. Toodles!

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