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I am shrugging off my World of Warcraft addiction again. Addiction is probably the wrong word - I have no problem quitting, but I do have difficulty playing in moderation. I had gone cold turkey for four or so months last year, but then my wife pulled me back in.
My problem with the game is: anything I do I want to do well, which in the case of WoW means doing it to excess, grinding daily quests and re-running instances until the item you want drops, trading your time for the ability to wave a larger e-peen than your peers.
But the last patch just came out and I was highly underwhelmed by the new content, which has provided the last nudge I needed to drop off again.
The first thing that my sudden free time has allowed me to do is to finally install a webmail client on republic.org. For a decade now I've used pine as my mail client, which means ssh'ing into the box. And, let's face it, an ASCII GUI is just a little bit behind the times.
Of course, as with all things UNIX/Linux, this meant a much larger workload than simply installing a webmail client. Ha! No, I had to install PHP, which is of course a horrible security hole so I had to do my best to lock it down, and then I had to install an IMAP server - I didn't need one before, and on the Internet if you don't need a service, turn it off or better yet uninstall it - and connect it to my existing MTA, and *then* I was able to install and configure the webmail server.
Happily, aside from one MTA configuration snafu, everything went as planned and now I and my 2-5 users can access our email using a more-or-less full-featured webmail client!
I wonder if tonight is raid night.