I’ve been pretty good at keeping my server up to date. I’ve taken a general policy of “if it isn’t broke, don’t touch it”. It works well, for the most part. When it comes to servers though, security is a good idea, and that plays havoc with the previous mantra.

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This year, all chaos and mayhem is going to break lose. Well, at least that’s the theory. This year the Government decided to bump the DST from April to March. This isn’t too bad, until you start to think of the impact of all the computers having the wrong time. Fortunately, [...]

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Being pretty much stuck on Windows due to the tools I have to use (Outlook, Visual Studio, SQL Enterprise Manager), I find that developing home stuff a little bit of a challenge. Sometimes I’ll SSH into one of my development boxes, and work from there, but it becomes a bit of a strain jumping [...]

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Well, I took a leap, and upgraded to WP2.1. Quite a smooth upgrade. Of course, I demo’d the upgrade on my dev box at home, and found the only plugin I had to upgrade was the markdown plugin as it generated preg_replace errors. Once upgraded, all was smooth sailing again.

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Stumbled on an odd one today. I was adding some new hosts to our Nagios server, and while I was looking at the interface, one of the servers kept popping up an error, the error was:

PING WARNING - System call sent warnings to stderr System call sent warnings to stderr

So I checked the [...]

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I have been curious about building “the ultimate Linux Desktop” for a while, but one of the requirements would be support for my Nikon D70s. As I shoot in RAW format, and that is usually propitiatory per camera manufacturer (Nikon is NEF), some special software is required, so I googled for “Linux Nikon RAW”, [...]

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While I know there are plenty of documents on how to defeat spam with Postfix and various tools, I’m still quite amazed at how effective two options are. They are:

smtpd_sender_restrictions = [...]

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Just jumped onto Freenode, and saw a wallop pop up from christel. She’s a freenode staffer mentioning something about sending condolences, I was a little baffled until I read this. Rob Levin, the administrator from Freenode, was sadly hit by a car whilst riding his bike, and later died in hospital. A [...]

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Okay, odd… I’ve just realized I’ve been on the SquirrelMail project now since about 2002, and in the 4 years I’ve been on the project, I don’t believe I’ve written a single plugin. Most unusual, however today I remedied that with a request in #squirrelmail for a new version of ip_user. I quickly [...]

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Brought to you by the folks over at Lifehacker is a nice little handful of scripts (bash and python) that makes simple TODO managing not so difficult. Todo.txt is a nice bash script that manages todo lists in a simple plain text fashion. Nothing too complicated. It even allows you to break [...]

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