Monthly Archives: June 2014

nospam server

Posted on June 26, 2014 by number9

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

Posted on June 23, 2014 by number9

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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FreeCode is gone…

Posted on June 20, 2014 by number9

Well, all free things must come to an end, either by them making money or by them stopping. As of June 18, 2014, Freecode.com is no longer accepting any submissions. Sigh, I had a wonderful time posting my open source … Continue reading →

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Amanda backup on a Backblaze Storage Pod

Posted on June 20, 2014 by number9

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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Backblaze pod, somebody set us up the RAID

Posted on June 17, 2014 by number9

Just for fun, here are some short notes on setting up the old backblaze pod. This backblaze pod is the older chassis, but with the new SuperMicro X9SCL-F motherboard, Intel i3-2120 and 16GB of ram. It is using the older … Continue reading →

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Jolla, how long do we have to wait?

Posted on June 12, 2014 by number9

Jolla, the Sailfish OS Finnish phone company has put 4G on the Jolla. I have rarely lusted after some hardware as of late, but the software is making me lust after this phone. It is a different OS, can run … Continue reading →

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ComputerThoughts goes live

Posted on June 10, 2014 by number9

This is a site dedicated to things I see on my IT journeys. I post solutions, problems, interesting items and general computer thoughts. Example, today I had to take apart our second backblaze pod.  The place I work at purchased two … Continue reading →

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