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Battling spam

on in Linux, Other

We got a lot of complaints about legitimate mails being marked as spam and therefore not being delivered to our customers.  As a solution I wanted the mails to be delivered to the user’s .SPAM folder.

These is the configuration I decided on:

/etc...

Burning from the commandline

on in Linux, Other, PHP

I download a Debian Sid livecd on my home server/HTPC and there’s a cd burner in there. So I would like to burn the downloaded iso. There no X Server running (yet) on the box so I was searching for a nice commandline utility.

I found cdw and it really...

Installing Transmission daemon on Ubuntu

on in Linux

I wanted to install the transmission torrent daemon on my new HTPC server so I can upload a torrent and go to sleep without having to leave my laptop on. Or thinking about starting transmission when my computer (re)boots. So here’s how I installed...

Building my new HTPC

on in Other

This friday I got all the components of my new HTPC. With thanks to my boss :)

It consists of:

  • Antec Veris Media Fusion Remote Silver

  • Coolermaster 460WATT PSU ExtremePower Plus

  • Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2+

  • AMD Athlon 64 X2 4850E AM2

  • MDT 2048 MB DDR2...

Phoogle: a _good_ fixed version

on in Development, PHP

Recently phoogle broke because of some Google maps update. The original creators of Phoogle haven’t updated the code (yet). And when searching online for newer, fixed versions all that showed up were crappy hacked Phoogle files by people who don’t...

df reporting 100% disk usage

on in Linux, Other

I’ve had a couple of times now that on one of my computers df keeps reporting 100% disk usage. Until now I have resolved this issue by rebooting. But today this happened on one of our servers. And I was reluctant to boot and I had to solve it fast...