Monthly Archives: January 2007

Postfix queue tools 1

Here are a few handy items for Postfix email server users:
1. If your system is acting as a spam / antivirus / relay server for secondary internal servers, and your destination mail server is down, postfix will queue your messages to resend at a later time. In order for postfix to instantly re-queue these messages [...]

Free ISO Ripping Application for XP Comments Off

I was looking for some software to save (rip) an ISO file from a CD drive that you have. This is great for making backups, or if you access a CD often, it can help you in that you will not have to insert the CD every time your program runs. Also it speeds up [...]

Apple iPhone – A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. 1

I know I’m a day late and a dollar short, but I wanted to throw in my thoughts on Apple, Inc.’s newly introduced iPhone. Besides pending trademark issue with the Cisco/Linksys iPhone, this looks like a great device. Even if they change its name – a rose by any other name would smell as [...]

Accessing Microsoft ODBC data sources in Linux Comments Off

Developing web apps cross platform can be a pain sometimes, as the drivers used in Windows are typically not available (by default anyway) in linux. For example, if you are using perl based software in linux, and you need to connect to a Windows database (for example, MSDE 2000 or SQL Server)
There are two essential [...]