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cheap portable hard disks a go go

June 21st, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

I decided to buy a portable hard disk this week for my trip to germany, so that I can ensure I don’t run out of CF space. It’s a vosonic vp2160, and at £109 for a 60gb model I’m pretty happy. It happily reads my CF card fresh from the camera, and copies over all [...]

Virtual domains in exim4

June 14th, 2007 Chris Ganderton 1 comment

I’ve been using exim for a while with virtual domain support, and thought it be best to document what I did somewhere. For a long time I wondered how I might actually support virtual domains in exim 4 and held off by just dumping all mail from all domains into my mailbox (how gosh darn [...]

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the number of servers you run …

April 13th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Well reading popeys blog entry on how many servers he has, and what he uses them for made me feel a bit better than I did previously, about running more than one server of my own for personal use. I only have three servers, and a workstation and a laptop; maybe I don’t waste as [...]

always check the disk free!

April 12th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Came up against the strangest problem the other day, which in the end made it blatantly clear that the most simple 1st checks should always be done; that is things like disk space etc. A server I have access too uses LDAP for user info and Kerberos5 for realm authentication. It was reported that this [...]

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http load balancing with squid

April 9th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

A while back at work I had to create a configuration for an internal squid http accelerator, and thought “hey, wouldn’t it be neat if I could load balance thefraggle.com with this method”. Now, usually Squid is used to act as a caching proxy server, which means that client http requests are sent to the [...]

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