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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Openvpn has been one of the tools of choice this week, so as I was tinkering on my ubuntu boxen…. I thought why don’t I install openvpn there as well for a little broader testing. So, I did, but was a bit disappointed to see that the version was not the most current. [...]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
This is a good quick reference for some command line linux commands…. pixelbeat.org - linux command line tips. Nice reference. (of course you can also make use of man/apropos and -h to find out more….)
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
One of the slickest video editing tools I’ve used in linux is kino. The only problem is that it’s geared towards dv files which comes straight from a camcorder (using the dv format.) Most of my video clips are in mpg format…. so there are ways to get it converted… here’s one such [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
One of the utilities under Linux I’ve made use of in the last few months is Dvdstyler. It essentially will take your dvd ready video and make the DVD filesystem (as well as menus). Simple menus are very straightforward as is setting bookmarks (chapters) within a file imported into a dvd project. [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
A long time ago I had found how easy it was to reject messages outright with Postfix that came from non-existent domains. You know… junk from asdflkjuasdlfkjh@imadethisupmyselfanditsnotregisteredanywhere.com
Well, since the mailserver at THIS site runs sendmail I wanted to fix sendmail the same as my home server. My home server is postfix based and [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
I almost forgot to pass along a link to a more comprehensive detailing of postfix’s anti-uce controls…. here. Also, in the last article I briefly mentioned whitelisting. IF you intend to have several blacklists active it will pay to learn how to whitelist before you HAVE to. To do so, I simply [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Postfix has a NUMBER of tools for rejecting unwanted messages before they get in the door and waste your CPU time on deciding “hey this mail is spam”. Up until recently I’ve mostly used the relays.ordb.org check (which in the last couple months has now gone defunct.) When we started noticing problems with [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Haven’t had the chance to try this one firsthand yet, although I’ve been watching for this. You may be familiar with ies4linux which is a script that uses wine to download/install multiple versions of Internet Explorer on a linux install. (But why oh why would you do this?) For many that [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Anyone that’s setup software raid on a system with multiple storage adapters has probably run into this kind of issue, but I thought I’d mention it. Last weekend I built a machine to replace my server (the server was to be captured into a VM). The main system was going to be installed [...]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
One of the tools I looked at having for my expanding kit has been a usb wireless adapter that would work with minimal install on Windows/Mac or Linux. As you can imagine…. it’s not as straightforward as just getting one that’s compatible with Windows…. well, after much searching I found the D-Link DWL-G122 802.11g [...]
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