I use 1and1 for my personal and business websites as well as for our clients. We’ve had a client recently that was not receiving emails from one of their colleagues and of course the other company’s IT person said it was our problem. Having been an email administrator for many years I always like to [...]
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1&1 tightens up Email spam rules
Published by July 31st, 2009 in business, family, friends, linux and technology. 9 Comments
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Tags: 1&1, 1and1, alias, business, business websites, cname record, dns admin, e mail, hosting, mail servers, mx record, mx server, smtp server, speedy response
Tags: 1&1, 1and1, alias, business, business websites, cname record, dns admin, e mail, hosting, mail servers, mx record, mx server, smtp server, speedy response
I was inspired by a blog post about “Why Do You Use Linux” to post why I use Linux and I wanted to post how I use one of the best operating systems out there as well. First off if you are not familiar of what Linux is you can read up about it [...]
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Tags: client servers, desktop environments, desktop pc, linux, open source software, security, server choice
Tags: client servers, desktop environments, desktop pc, linux, open source software, security, server choice
Setting up Azureus and SafePeer in Linux
Published by October 19th, 2007 in azureus, howto, linux and software. 0 CommentsSo there are tons of utilities to keep the SafePeer plugin up-to-date in Windows (like BlueTack’s Blocklist Manager), but Linux and the Mac have been left out in the cold. We’ll I found a way to get those 190k+ ips blocked in azureus without having to use Peerguardian or MoBlock (MoBlock is still safer [...]
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Adding fdftk to php under debian
Published by October 18th, 2007 in debian, linux and php. 1 CommentSince there is not an easy step by step howto for adding features to packages I decided to write a quick and dirty one myself. this is also for reference if I ever need it later. Read more to see what I did….
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SuSE SLES 10 Migrating from NIS using MigrationTools
Published by August 9th, 2007 in linux, security, software and technology. 0 CommentsSo we were moving a NIS database to LDAP under SUSE SLES 10 using the MigrationTools-47 scripts. It generated the ldif file, but would not import because it was failing on adding groups. This was the error we were getting:
(65) no structural object class provided
All we had to do is change this:
objectClass: posixGroup
objectClass: top
to this:
objectClass: [...]
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Gallery2 Watermarks on all Images
Published by December 5th, 2006 in linux, pictures and programming. 0 CommentsAfter much searching and Database queries I found a forum post that explains how to add a url rewrite rule to make all images on a gallery2 site have a watermark. I’m sure also with some massaging it can be applied to different albums, but all I need is all or nothing.
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DTV released as Democracy (Linux Preview)
Published by February 22nd, 2006 in diggs, iptv, linux, podcasting, software, technology and video. 0 CommentsThe long awaited, open-source Democracy platform is a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation allowing you to subscribe to video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), watch fullscreen and share with friends.
So I checked out Democracy and was impressed at the layout and that I was actually able to download content right [...]
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mtink: Status Monitor for EPSON inkjet printers
Published by January 24th, 2006 in hardware, linux and software. 0 CommentsI found a great little print monitor for linux called mtink. It works great for my Epson Stylus Photo 825 printer when hooked up via usb and I can reset, clean, and nozzle check the printer all from this little program. If using my particular printer you will need to select the Stylus Photo printer [...]
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My Next Laptop: IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet
Published by November 7th, 2005 in hardware and linux. 0 CommentsI was looking over the KDE Look feed in akregator (a RSS feed tool in KDE) and opened up a splash screen that I thought looked good in . I clicked on a google ad, to help support sites I like, and came upon a site called eLucis which sells linux distros on cd and [...]
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All I can say is wow. The latest VueScan takes advantage of GTK2 on linux and is an awesome app (also runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX). It makes scanning as easy or advanced as you would like and helps turn old pictures and faded shots into photos like they had just been printed. [...]
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