Website with Mambo CMS

My brother Kees and his girlfriend are going to travel around the world the next 12 months. And of course they want to inform friends and family. A few years ago they went to New-Zealand and I set up an very easy PHP-website (yes it was programmed…

There are people who don’t want to become friends

Last Monday, I was monitoring my /var/log/maillog on the server morpheus. And I saw a lot of rejected e-mail scrolling by. After about 10 minutes it stopped. And in the mailgraph I saw an average of about 2 messages per second… I really do not l…

The old Tank is death… long live the new Tank!

As I wrote before Tank is death. And since yesterday he is back alive (although… not fully functional, but it is a matter of time).Within the next few days I will install all the required software:DNS ServerMailserverHerakles retention dumpSo h…

Spam fighting

In my fight against spam… I installed SpamAssassin. .A user can decide to use it or not by editing his dot-forward file in his/her $HOME.Realtime statistics can be found on the mailgraph webpage.

NedZone…

Yesterday I’ve been to NedZone. NedZone is a company in Steenbergen who provides Rackspace and connectivity.Marcel, one of the engineers, showed me the new data centre of them:More pictures about their data centre can be found in the NedZone Galle…

UPDated GPG

According to this message:There is a command execution vulnerability in Squirrelmail GPG Plugin. The vulnerability has been tested on the latest versions of Squirrelmail, 1.4.10a, and GPG Plugin, 2.0.Detailed analysis and command execution PoC ava…

Tank.adslweb.net RIP

On friday 29th of june, my server tank.adslweb.net died. I guess the mainboard of the computer died… so I have to find a solution, because at this moment no backups are available. I have two options:Buy new hardware;Use the old hardware of morp…

mailing to chello.nl…. blocked…

As a lot of ppl found out, sending a mail to chello.nl is hard to do with your own MTA on a consumer broad-band connection. The consumer ranges are blocked by Chello/UPC But we can hack it… al you need is access to a non-blocked MTA (i.e. smtp….

VMWare ESX… it is just linux

At the moment I am working on a project who uses VMWare ESX. It is quite nice, although it is just ‘Linux’, with some VMWare stuff built in.The hardware to play with is also quite nice, it is an IBM x3800 with 4 dual core Xeon cpu’s (at the moment…

HP OfficeJet 7310 and Gentoo Linux

Yesterday my new OfficeJet 7310. So I grabbed it out of the box and wanted to install it under Linux.. .But… I couldn’t configure it using the menu… it wants to install it via the Windows-tools (or Apple tools) So I decided to install the free…