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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]