Greylisting is ‘da Bomb!
With my new server, I switched from sendmail to postfix. I also upgraded spamassassin. The spam count dropped quite a bit, but I was still getting a heck of a l...
Category: Computers
New Server
Well, I took the plunge and moved to my new server tonight. Things appear to be working okay. I still have a couple of services and applications to move over, b...
Server Woes
My **#()@!@$@# server keeps hanging on me in the middle of the night. I have some newer hardware to move to, and the OS is installed, but I need to find time to...
Useful mod_perl Articles
We run mod_perl on Apache at work. We are having a small issue with some long-running requests and I’m doing some Googling to try and figure out what̵...
Free Data Recovery Utilities!
Way cool. TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery utility! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable ag...
Outage Last Night
We had a short (about an hour and a half) outage last night while I moved all the servers and gear into the new rack. It looks pretty nice now – I’l...
Keeping iTunes Synced With Folders
Here is a great tip about a program to keep your iTunes synced with your music folders. I’ve already had some trouble with this on my OpenFiler share, so ...
Pointless SPAM
WTF is the point of this spam email? Subject: your 🙂 What’s so good about it? 🙂 The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Frate...
vi vs. wysiwyg editor debate/rant
There was an email thread on my motorcycle list that referenced vi (the *nix text editor). One of the people on the list didn’t know what vi was, so I sai...