Some days it’s a bad idea to ignore (or rather, just not check) email. And ignore weird stuff when you see it. Turns out for two days straight my server has been spewing out spam, after a user on the server had their password compromised. The server is a Ubuntu server with Postfix as the […]
Debugging And Removing A Spam Attack Through Postfix Read Post »
A bit ago I got an almost-free computer from work with a couple of parts I wanted to upgrade my home system, bumping the CPU a bit and replacing the video card that goes WRRRAAAAAAWWWRRRRRRR-ER-ER-ER WRRRRRAAAAAWWWWRRRR with something a little quieter. Last night I finally got around to switching the parts, and found a couple
Moving From nVidia To ATI In Ubuntu Karmic Koala Read Post »
The short answer is to look here for the instructions that finally made it all work for me. After a little “mishap” with my addressbook a few days ago (helpfully synced, empty to the net and to my phone, so nowhere had a backup) I finally figured that checking out the much touted “Time Machine”
Leopard Time Machine Backups To an Samba SMB Share Read Post »
First of all, I love Linux. I discovered it in 1994(ish) right around the time that kernel 1.0 was just about to come out. The fact it was a home brew system, that it was a rebellious band of freedom fighters coming together as a community to create something great, and that anyone could contribute
Allow Me To De-Fanboy A Bit (Linux) Read Post »
As I said I just got an iPod, so now I have to deal with managing the music for it in my particular situation. I have the following going on at home right now: A fileserver with approximately 140G of mp3s all nicely tagged via MusicBrainz‘s tools and organized nicely into directories (ie: music player
Thoughts on the iPod and Music Management Read Post »
Just so my bitching isn’t restricted to Microsoft, today a fair chunk of time fixing the Arcterex.net webserver after the latest version of Apache that is in the Gentoo repository. Version 2.0 has been installed and working fine for a while, but the config layout seemed to change and a bunch of things moved. Generally
Gentoo Apache 2 Updates Read Post »
Long time no blog. Feeling a bit down lately, busyness, stress, life, work etc all sucking, so I’ve been pretty quiet. A nice change from that was Saturday myself, Dana, Wim and Tammie and Clayten went down to Linuxfest Northwest, the yearly geek fest down in Bellingham. Definitely not a place for non-geeks though… there
Linux Northwest 2007 Wrapup Read Post »
Well, it’s the time of year again for Linux Northwest and Novell Linux’s Reverend Ted will be there doing a Xen presentation. Any of the Linux crowd from this end of the woods (you know who you are) want to carpool down again?
Time for Linux Northwest once Again Read Post »
I played with Ubuntu Linux a few days ago and reported that it went on slick and easy and was nice and stable, and I was considering replacing my desktop system with it. Well, in a fit of boredom this weekend I decided to do just that. Because I’m sane, and have had “oops” moments
The Great Ubuntu Upgrade that Wasn’t Read Post »
Decided to throw Feisty Fawn, codename for the latest Ubuntu onto the second hard drive on my main windows box today, just to shake things up. System specs are as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU (2.40Ghz) 2G DDR2 nVidia GT7950 2x 320G SATA Hard Drive The system is my windows Photoshop / Gaming
Playing with the Latest Ubuntu Linux Read Post »