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Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the …
We are running dovecot as MDA. Dovecot gets its user details from OpenLDAP and adds new users automatically. But removing a user in LDAP does not mean it gets removed in Dovecot as well. To have this a little bit … Continue reading →
The command ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber will show you your Mac’s serial number. With this, you can find out when your Mac has been created if you enter this number to https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do For…
Introduction Maybe you know the situation: You successfully logged in to a corporate network and somehow you can’t reach your server. You check all possibilities and realize that some of the ports you desperately need to manage your daily life &#…
For years, we were using Squirrelmail as the default web mail client. Well, it would be a lie to say its design looks good but it offers a lot of functionality that nearly compensates the design deficits. The really basic functionalities … Conti…
Recently we realized that proftpd misses several modules that are available but not included in the standard distribution. Therefore, we created an ebuild. As time was short today, we only included mod_dnsbl. In the near future, we will add more modules. The ebuild is available on our SVN repository: http://dev.informations-compagnie.de/svn/gentoo/net-ftp/proftpd/proftpd-1.3.2b-r1.ebuild. Please have a look at …
From time to time it can happen that websites that used to be on your webservers are being moved by your clients without notifying you. Therefore, you will have to search for «zombie websites». I have the following setup: There is an Apache webserver that has a lot of websites. Each website has at least …
Google released the source code of the Apollo 11 mission – together with an emulator.
On the first sight this may seem as yet another nerdish project, but it’s much more than that.
If you belong to the rare specie of Assembler programmers, you will have the unique chance to follow the thoughts of the people …
Laconica (pronounced "luh-KAWN-ih-kuh") is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, …
# Any random options you want to pass to sshd. # See the sshd(8) manpage for more info. SSHD_OPTS=”” # Pid file to use (needs to be absolute path). SSHD_PIDFILE=”/var/run/sshd2.pid” # Path to the sshd binary (needs to be absolute path). SSHD_BINARY=”/usr/sbin/sshd2″ Although there are many ways workarounding the lack of security with ye olde FTP, there …