{All the way from Cambridge}

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 [...]

Today at Apachecon Europe 2009 I managed to get full multi-master LDAP replication working for the ASF. So in the near future we will start using LDAP for authentication.  This will include access to shell accounts, and Subversion.  However additional features that will make use of authorisation extensions will follow shortly afterwards.  We will use [...]

So, today I will be rolling out LDAP on the first of what will hopefully be our new LDAP infrastructure. So cross your fingers.

I thought I would add a little piece on the battery life of my new MacBook Pro, there are a lot of misleading and conflicting articles on the internet regarding the new battery in this awesome machine. So I thought, what the hell I’ll add another one. As you can see from the image below [...]

It has been just over  1 week now since I parted with the readies to pay for the new 17″ MacBook Pro. So far it has been awesome.  I am currently in the throws of getting my hands on a bunch of software to allow me to do what I would normally be able to do on [...]

At some point today I’ll be moving from postfix to qmail as my MTA. In part my hand has been forced, after offering to host a website for my brother in law (alias overlap). So aspart of the reorganization I decided to take a look into qmail. The fact that we use it within the [...]