Monthly Archives: August 2007

Published:
August 27, 2007 – 9:18 am
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By Dave

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?

Categories: Configurations, Programs

Published:
August 24, 2007 – 2:42 pm
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By Dave

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 [...]

Categories: Tech, Television

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August 24, 2007 – 2:18 pm
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By Dave

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 That is a sure sign that your machine has been hacked and ls has been replaced by an unknown program.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 [...]

Categories: Linux, Security, System Administration

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August 17, 2007 – 12:05 pm
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By Dave

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 updates [...]

Categories: Cell Phones, Tech, Webdesign, Windows Mobile

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Published:
August 14, 2007 – 10:40 am
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By Dave

My MySQL Binary Log files are taking up all my disk space! 3

…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 are generated when you have log-bin=mysql-bin or other log-bin= [...]

Categories: Configurations, MySQL, System Administration

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