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On a closed mailing list someone wrote: 2 X 120gb ide drives installed as slaves on each ide channels. … Presto. A 230’ish GB storage NAS for all my junk. I’m not going to write a long technical response on a closed list so I’ll blog about it instead. Firstly I wonder whether by “junk” […] This story on 365tomorrows.com on the topic of rootkits is interesting (note the OSs involved). Also it made me wonder about the other possibilities for a root-kitted robot, the mind boggles at how it might determine whether you need an enlargement to some body part… 365tomorrows is a good site, they post a short sci-fi […] One advantage of not being a permanent employee is that I am free to do paid work for other people. This not only gives a greater income but also a wider scope of work. I’ve just completed my first significant project since leaving Red Hat. The Inumbers project provides an email address for every mobile […] I’ve been working on a mail forwarding system which required me to implement SRS to allow people who use SPF to be customers of the service (as I use SPF on my domain it’s fairly important to me). Reading the web pages before actually trying to implement it things seemed quite easy. All over the […] I started using Linux in 1993. I initially used it only in text-mode as I didn’t have enough RAM to run XFree86 on my Linux machine. I ran text-mode Linux server machines from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 I purchased my first laptop and installed Linux with KDE on it. I chose KDE because it […] In response to my last entry about anti-spam measures and the difficulty of blocking SPAM at the SMTP protocol level I received a few responses. Brian May pointed out that the exiscan-acl feature of Exim allows such blocking, and Johannes Berg referred me to his web site http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects for information on how he implemented Exim […] There are two critical things that any anti-spam system must do, it must not lose email and it must not cause damage to the rest of the net. To avoid losing email every message must be either accepted for delivery or the sender must be notified. To avoid causing damage to the rest of the […] In a mailing list to which I subscribe there is currently a discussion on US politics with the inevitable discussion of wasted votes. As I don’t want to waste my writing on this topic on a closed list I’m posting to my blog. There is ongoing discussion on the topic of wasted votes. As a […] |
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