After all the fun and games of the past few days Aaron and I have managed to rebuild the entire VM, and apachecon website. It was a lot of fun and games, and I’m sure in we’ll be buying each other a lot of beer in Oakland. So, go, get your daily dose of apachecon [...]
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Postfix + SASL + Dovecot
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After trying to find a way to make my postfix installation allow authenticated users (over TLS will come later) relay mail using SASL, on a CentOS machine using only CentOS packages I discovered it was not as easy as I may have liked. So after installing cyrus-sasl, postfix and dovecot all I needed to do [...]
webroot – wow how good?
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Earlier today I was on the end of yet another presentation. Only this time I walked out wanting to buy the service(s) on offer. Webroot are a provider of hosted email, and web filtering tools. My employer currently uses an alternate solution, but sufficed to say after today’s meeting we may be looking elsewhere. The [...]
Botnets! Seek and destroy!
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I have just had over 11, 200 emails delivered. Sadly they were all NDRs [1]. Sadly some flaming idiot in Poland, has been sending out emails claiming to be me. I have looked at the message headers for a few of them, they all came from different servers, different providers. Now, I wonder if there [...]
Slicehost
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As with DrBacchus, I am now the proud owner of a slice. I decided to migrate all my websites, hosted email, and other miscellaneous hosted services to a dedicated service, rather than hosting it elsewhere. I had struggled to keep the box located in my employers datacentre racks, due to space and the somewhat agreessive [...]
Eyeing up an 17″ MBP
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Right, for the past few weeks I have been trying to get my hands on a 17″ MBP. Not the standard retail model, I want the smaller but faster disk, more RAM, and a few other tweaks. In the UK (apple.com/uk) retail price for this unit is about £2,200. However in the US the same [...]