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Redmine and the tls + smtpauth problem

So you have a magic redmine server… so that server is behind a fascist firewall that does not allow external connections in or out… you know.. for security reasons… So you’ve been banging your head against the wall TRYING to get smtpauth + starttls to work with the relay mailserver. Not going well [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 i386 & AXIGEN & ClamAV & spamassassin

Axigen has wow’d me for just simple ease of use and features! They give a great community version which allows you to have 5 extended type users and 100 basic users and a bunch of domains. All and all, an amazing product they are offering to the community. The features are top notch (IMHO) for a [...]

Oh No! Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists!

So you’re using Ubuntu 11.04 or something and the updater has a big “red bar” badge. You click on it and you get “Could not initialize package information” and a whole bunch of stuff that makes sense to people who are smarter then me. Some thing about problems with a merglist and possible other [...]

Ubuntu 11.04 and the (broken) broadcom drivers

So you’re stuck, you got a lappy with a broadcom wifi and you just installed ubuntu 11.04 and you can’t click activate on the additional drivers AND you don’t have wired interwebs? AND you get some “look in jockeyshorts log cuz some shit failed yo!” when you try to activate? This is what I found… [...]

Geolocalized spam sources…

My server gets about 1000-2000 attempts to deliver spam a day. While in the grand scheme of things, this does not seem like a lot. However, given that my server is on a slow link, each unnecessary use of my server bandwidth is a source of frustration for me. (more…)

Creating a thumbnail of a PDF with LAMP

Fairly simple if you have ghostscript, imagemagik for php installed. <?php $im = new imagick('file.pdf[0]'); // open the first page $im->getNumberImages(); // get number of pages $im->setResolution( 300, 300 ); $im->setImageFormat( "jpg" ); header( "Content-Type: image/jpeg" ); echo $im; ?>

ProFlightSimulator vs. FlightGear

AKA FlightSimPro, ProFlightSimulator, FlightSimPro, Earth Flight Sim, FlightProSim, Real Flight Simulator It seems there is a new player in the market of flight simulators. Lets install and check it out. Hmm it looks very familiar. Oh my, could it be, yes it is, ladies and gentleman we have a [...]

FiddlerCap and HTTP protocol debugging

Capturing web traffic Introduction If you’ve reached this page, chances are good that you were asked to capture a HTTP log file. Usually, this action is performed to track down a bug in your web browser or a website. You can use Microsoft FiddlerCap to take a snapshot of HTTP traffic, and send [...]

Six train woes….

This morning, no different then last morning other the the explanation, I arrived at the NYC Metro station right on time to get to work at 10:15am. Paid my paltry 2 dollar fare for access to the wonderful sights and smells existing in the station. And I waited. An uptown 6 went by. More [...]

libOpenMetaverse

libOpenMetaverse (formerly libSecondLife) is a very interesting project. Basically, it’s a library in C# is used for connecting to the secondlife grid. I’ve been playing with 0.5.0 (last official release apparently) and also with /trunk. I’ve been able to work my around into creating a name2key [...]