A look at setting up an open source mailserver. He picked Sendmail. Must take a look at smtp_auth for my own use.
Author Archives: Donncha
How to get an ATM PIN number in 15 guesses
The Register reports a worrying attack on PIN numbers, although “the risk of attack comes from a corrupt insider, perhaps in computer operations and with access to sensitive manuals, who might be able to use the attack to refine what would otherwise be a brute force attempt to guess PIN numbers.” And with a maximum of 3 or 4 attempts at an ATM nobody’s going to do this on the street. Probably.
Yerase's TNEF Stream Reader
This script looks like it’d be very handy for those of us who have to accept mail from Outlook users.
ytnef is a program to work with procmail to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat attachments) like those created with Outlook. Unlike other similar programs, it can also create vCalendar/vCard entries from meeting requests, address cards, and task entries.
Admin Test 2000 Answers.
Re: Last Admin Test. via ILUG.
1] Name two ways to disable a users account.
Disable the user, or merely threaten them with violence if they touch a machine.
Coolest bow tie in the universe
Coolest bow tie in the universe – via slashdot.org
b2 and Smarty Updates
*phew* Got a lot done tonight:
- b2 is playing nicely with Smarty. The main index page, comments, trackback and pingback popups are working.
- I modified the template edit page to edit the .tpl files in the template directory *only* as the user really shouldn’t be seeing PHP. The most complex code in the templates is an if-else statment in some of the popups.
- I created a “new blog” php script based on the register script. Fill it in and it’ll email me. Once I veriify the person I click on the b2install.php file of the new blog and create the db/finish the install. It also emails the user to tell them the blog is ready. An “exit” command in b2config stops the user using the blog until I verify who they are. (This is important for my own case
- The b2options page has been expanded to edit the name and description of the blog.
It’s not all perfect though. When a user registers they’re asked to login as “admin”, not the username they entered on registering..
I may call the b2install script when the user registers so they can enter profile information on registration. I can default to displaying the user first name on blog posts instead of “admin”. Would be nicer.
You want a URL? Mail me! Address is over there on the left I think!
New major release of SpamAssas …
New major release of SpamAssassin is out. Version 2.50 has lots of updates and bug fixes. Jeremy has more on his site!
Mozilla upstart looks up to Sa …
Mozilla upstart looks up to Safari.
A small band of software developers tired of code and feature bloat are building yet another browser based on Mozilla.
A new development project called Epiphany has splintered from the Galeon effort, which also was formed to create a simplified Mozilla-based browser for Gnome.
b2 and Smarty
Good evening! This is a blog generated by the the excellent b2, heavily modified by me to use Smarty, and with scripts to make it easy to create new blogs. I’ll hopefully be able to release code sometime next week when I track down any errant bugs.
Hello world !
This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging !