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Site fully rehoused

Last night, I moved e-mail service to the new hosted server. That was more or less painless. The only grief I caused myself was in upgrading Postfix as part of the process, which rendered my version of one of the … Continue reading

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New home

If you’ve had any connectivity problems with this site over the last couple of days, that’s because I’ve been busy moving the site to a new home, over at managed.com. Every time we move house, I have the headache of … Continue reading

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Nice Perk

I was lucky enough to have a seat today in Kirk McKusick’s course, FreeBSD Kernel Internals, based on his book, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. Today was the first day of the course, which has been … Continue reading

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Fighting trackback spam

As I wrote in my last entry, I’ve been forced to take measures against trackback spam. The patch is proving effective, so I produce it here in the hope it will help some of you, too. Note that this patch … Continue reading

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Trackback spam

Blog comment spammers have been having a hard time of it lately, given the new measures that people have been devising to render their links ineffective. Of course, rendering spam links ineffective works only acts as a deterrent. It doesn’t … Continue reading

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