Monthly Archives: August 2007

Postfix Release Notes Comments Off

I just read this in the Postfix Release Notes… and thought I had to share. [Incompat 20060806] Postfix no longer announces its name in delivery status notifications. Users believe that Wietse provides a free help desk service that solves all their email problems. Who said coders don’t have a sense of humor?

BeyondTV on Mac OSX Parallels XP Comments Off

This neat – one of my favorite products, BeyondTV, records television (standard or HD) but it is only a Windows program. You can use BeyondTV Link to play video on any other PC on the local network (because of bandwidth constraints – if you want to view over the internet, use the BeyondTV Web Interface [...]

Analysis of a hacked machine Comments Off

If you are a system administrator, you should dread any time you use the normal “ls” command and receive a strange error in return. That is a sure sign that your machine has been hacked and ls has been replaced by an unknown program. Gnist blog has a nicely written step-by-step list of what you [...]

Meebo loves iPhone – what about Windows Mobile? Comments Off

Meebo, which I have recently been turned on to, yesterday released an iPhone client which is basically a web interface to their chat website (which integrates AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, gtalk, and more). It looks great, take a peek: That is great that they are developing this and I applaud them for their efforts of releasing [...]

My MySQL Binary Log files are taking up all my disk space! View Comments

…and other MySQL Oddities. If your MySQL binary log files are a “Growing” problem… there are a few simple steps you can use to curtail their growth and save your disk space from these huge files. They probably look like: mysql-bin.000001 mysql-bin.000002 mysql-bin.000003 mysql-bin.000004 mysql-bin.000005 … And around 1 gig in size each. These files [...]