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Linux Mouse trails, crappy laptops
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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The future of packages
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 We should move forward with improvements and put aside outdated methods.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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Testing email by hand, again
There have been a number of articles written about testing email by hand. The problem is that I always have to look for them, and very few actually present the full fields required if you are testing against a vicious … Continue reading
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nospam server
Over the years I have built a number of spam filtering servers, and for some reason I have always called them nospam. At one time I was contributing to the gentoo howto on spam filtering, until it crashed. I use … Continue reading
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Log messages to an rsyslog server
Ok, so we have all done this a million times. Thing is I recently had to do this, and I typically use syslog-ng, but this time I was on a RHEL/CentOS box and wanted to just check it out with … Continue reading
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Amanda backup on a Backblaze Storage Pod
Yup, sometimes something is better than nothing. We have all been there before in IT. You have no backup server. You have no budget to buy a “real” backup server. You have been told a million times hard drives are … Continue reading
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