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Free Software programmer, network engineer and Debian developer.
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Manilla, Git and Gjay
Work doesn’t often send to me places as great as Manilla in the Philippines, but here I am. It’s a reasonably modern place and to me feels more like America than Asia in so many ways, posssibly because of its history. One thing is for sure, noone follows road rules here. Red lights are a…
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Happy new RC
It’s the late afternoon of the first day of 2010 here, though I suppose its still 2009 for someone for a little while. After a lot of waiting, JFFNMS release candidate 1 for 0.8.5 got uploaded to sourceforge. This release is mainly about fixing some database release bugs 0.8.4 had and they’re all caused by…
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Updated: psmisc, gw6c and gjay
Time away from work and its been either raining or hot. So I’ve updated and released some software. It always seems to happen there is a lot of Free Software development during the breaks. psmisc got a bunch of updates, including a new program called prtstat which formats the stat file in the procfs for…
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Changing Sites
While I originally had a blog site on Avogato, I just didnt seem to use it much. I needed some place that I could put some writing that wasn’t quite up to a new whole page with the associated heavy work to format it but it had to go somewhere. So I’ll try to put…
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Connecting to Internode IPv6 on Debian
A guide to getting connected on IP version 6 on Internode ISP
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Using Amanda for Backups
How i use the AMANDA programs to backup my Linux servers
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Creating an APT archive
Apt has a feature so you create your own archive of Debian packages, this document describes how to create the archive
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Filtering base64 encoded spam
Spammers now base64 encode their spam to stop body checks, this is how to still filter their spam using postfix.
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Bridging firewalls for ADSL Connections
For a long time I’ve had the 56k (hah – If I’m lucky) dialup. Between the modem and my local network was a nice Linux firewall, all was good. Then I changed my connection to ADSL from [Internode][], that was good too. I soon found out that I couldn’t put my firewall in as-is, that…
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Printing using LPRng and Foomatic
How to print using the foomatic filters within LPRng