Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Quick Mailserver Update

I have at long last done a little more work on the mailserver project. The latest thing to report is the addition of dspam to filter out spam. In addition to this clamAV is also integrated. The next step will be to do some more testing and then plug in another application which should make [...]

Mailserver Project: Another Update

I was hoping to begin this month with news that my mailserver project was reaching the milestone objective of being secure and working, alas it is not to be. The good news is that over the past month I have made significant progress and am in the final stages of securing and testing. I have [...]

Time Sink

Over the past 3 and a bit months I have been playing Eve-Online, a massively multiplayer game set in outer space. This has been the first time I have played something like this for any great length of time and like any game it took me the best part of 3 months playing to get [...]

Time to give back to the community

It appears that all of a sudden there has been a failure of the Тюмень ландшафтgentoo-wiki.com site. Maybe not a failure as such but events being such that it nolonger exists. It means that a huge ammount of Gentoo and Linux information has been lost from the web (some may be recoverable from Google cache). [...]

Firefox 3

Firefox 3 has been released. Get it now!!

XHTML Valid Once Again

Since the upgrade to WordPress 2.5 I have been a little unhappy that the site wasn’t validating as XHTML 1.0 Transitional Compliant. Today I have taken steps to correct this. Why is it important to have a standards compliant site? Well for starters a site that adheres to the standards should appear the same on [...]

Azureus Magnet Links for Linux

On a Windows machine with Firefox and Azureus installed magnet links in web pages are already associated with Azureus. In Linux (at least in my experience with Gentoo) this association is missing by default. The following steps will enable the desired functionality. In Firefox Type about:config into the address bar and press Enter. Right-click -> [...]

Web TV Streaming

The end of February is fast approaching and I spent much of the month roaming the web discovering many new offerings. The BBC lauched its iplayer service at Christmas and I have on the odd occasion used it to catch up on a missed TV show. Given the choice however I like to keep a [...]

I’ve won £650,000

I was pleased to receive and email from an Italian website telling me I have won £650,000. That is very good news as I don’t even remember entering anything. To collect my prize all I need to do is send my Name, Address, Age, Sex, Occupation and Telephone number. It sounds too good to be [...]

Firewall Script – Improvement

I have improved the previous version of the firewall script to reduce some security flaws. Have a look