Penguins-On-Hudson is an advocacy program sponsored by Codefix Consulting to help promote Linux and F.O.S.S. (Free Open Source Software) in the lower Hudson River Valley.
In most cases, Ubuntu desktop systems will automatically detect and mount removable media, and this is largely done with software that is part of the X Windows system; for server systems without X Windows however, this sort of thing requires a bit of work.
Now some may ask, “Why automount removable media at all?” It is […]
Shortly after I last upgraded my mail server, one user reported that his mail client was failing to connect with the message:
“Unable to connect to your IMAP server. You may have exceeded the maximum number of connections to this server…”
He was the only one known to be having this issue, so after a cursory check […]
Some time ago I enabled recipient delimiters (e.g. user+foo@host.tld) as a convenient way to know if shady web forms are contributing to my spam folder. The idea is that when House Depot requires me to have an account before I can see if they have loose screws in stock locally, I can sign up […]
S.A.R.E. Ninjas are the folks over at SpamAssassin Rules Emporium who act as sort of an arms dealer in the Spam War: they publish custom rules and plugins for SpamAssassin, the Open Source world’s powerful anti-spam software. This article is about an imminent software release that promises big trouble for spammers.
Dell didn’t ask but if they had I would have told them that Ubuntu Linux is a good choice. I have generally refrained from the usual histrionics whenever something Linux-ish makes the news, but I’d would like to voice a couple remarks regarding Dell’s Ubuntu announcement.
While I’m always happy to see Linux reaching a wider […]
Earlier this month Debian 4.0 (codename ‘Etch’) was released; many web pages now sport instructions for upgrading, but not all of these are wholly correct and some aren’t even safe. Naturally the best source for all things Debian is the official Debian website, where one may find comprehensive upgrade notes, but quick and easy tends […]