Author Archives: number9

Auditing IT departments

Posted on April 21, 2017 by number9

This post is spawned from a need to write down at least a minimal set of procedures that get preformed over and over through my IT adventure. It typically starts on day one: I’m the new guy, and the IT … Continue reading →

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Linux Mouse trails, crappy laptops

Posted on March 9, 2017 by number9

Did your boss or company force one of those really crappy Dell Latitude laptops on you (like an E5570)? Did you install Linux in a fit of rage as you had to get rid of proprietary crap? Did you notice … Continue reading →

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Custom Linux Mint bootable image (USB/CD)

Posted on January 10, 2017 by number9

There have been a number of posts on how to create your own Linux Mint bootable image. There was a need to create one recently, and I noted a number of things that were addressed by others, but not in … Continue reading →

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Minor update on nospam

Posted on June 15, 2016 by number9

Just a minor update on the previous nospam entry. This update will guide you through the process of releasing a quarantined message. It is not often one has to release a quarantined message, but it is pretty quick and painless.

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Linux Mint, login background images

Posted on May 28, 2016 by number9

Yes, I run Linux Mint on two of my “home” machines. Also gentoo, slack, debian (and derivatives) and centos. Speaking to Vincent Batts, who is self proclaimed to be “OS agnostic”, makes me ponder trying to be even more OS … Continue reading →

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We have all been there, right?

Posted on October 16, 2015 by number9

Just looked up from my desk and realized that a lot of my team members have ergonomic issues (the screen is too low when you put the monitor/laptop on the desk, the desk itself is too low, etc). I chuckled … Continue reading →

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Planning

Posted on September 24, 2015 by number9

A lot has been said about planning, and I am by no means an expert in planning of any kind, but today I was walking into the office and noted something about a plan I was looking over. A plan … Continue reading →

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Postfix 3.0, defaults to smtputf8 attribute

Posted on May 2, 2015 by number9

Upon upgrading a nospam type server last week, the amavisd decided to not send any mail anywhere. Looking through the mail logs, it became apparent that amavisd did not know about an attribute that Postfix is using called smtputf8. With … Continue reading →

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The future of packages

Posted on January 28, 2015 by number9

I noted in this post that the infamous FreeCode is now gone. I had fond memories of posting my software when it was FreshMeat.net. But time passes and things change. We should move forward with improvements and put aside outdated methods. As … Continue reading →

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Most basic iscsi on linux

Posted on September 10, 2014 by number9

We had a machine at work that needed to connect to a Dell Equallogic box via iscsi. I set this up, but since I was only using it about once a month, I did it manually (this was to take … Continue reading →

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