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GnuPrivacyGuard basics These are the bare-bones instructions to get you going. Reading the documentation (online at http://www.gnupg.org/en/manual.html) is highly recommended. It is a good idea to get a buddy to go through this at the same time that you do -- ...

(19 March 2012) Last year when I rebuilt my server I had the opportunity to see specifically what effect greylisting was having on my inbox. Right now my mailbox is stored on a Gmail account. However I handle the MX for my zone directly, and then send the inco...

Figure out what your cdrom drive's device is. For your own peace of mind, don't use SAM, because SAM is broken in HP-11.00. [root@dusty]ioscan -fnC disk Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description disk 0 10/0/...

(2015-03-10) Something which I realized a few years back and have not read anywhere before or since: If you are messing around with interface-based VPNs (on your JunOS or ScreenOS firewall), the temptation is to put them in the untrust zone. VPNs are untrusted...

(14 August 2012) Available on rpmforge. Basic throughput testing, TCP: run the server # iperf -s run the client # iperf -c 10.0.0.22 ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 10.0.0.22, TCP port 50...

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 an...

(2005/2006 era) Alex is at the age where Sesame Street is a frequent, if not regular, visitor to our TV. It is gratifying to see parts of the children's shows which are aimed not at the children, but at the adults which frequently watch the shows with their ch...

(7 September 2012) Poul-Henning Kamp writes about A Generation Lost In The Bazaar: Here is one example of an ironic piece of waste: Sam Leffler's graphics/libtiff is one of the 122 packages on the road to www/firefox, yet the resulting Firefox browser does no...

Law There's always an easier way. Corollary Things frequently get done sooner if you just do them the hard way rather than continuing to seek an easier way. (Also known as the Projects Manager's Observation: sometimes you just have to shoot the engineers and p...

Law Anything which can be measured, will be measured on the Internet. 1st Corollary Anything measured on the Internet will become the subject of a Dick-Size War. 2nd Corollary Anything measured on the Internet will become the subject of at least one person or ...

(29 January 2008) I watched the Google Talk video about the Inbox Zero concept. It is long (about 60 minutes) but the first half hour especially is good, where he talks about his system. My system is similar. I don't process to zero (ie reduce everything to an...

(10 October 2011) Interesting results from an IBM study comparing the effectiveness of folder-filing email versus just sorting a big random pile of email: Search-based users find what they are looking for in an average of 18 seconds; folder-based users take a...

Put five apes in a cage. In the middle of a cage is a set of steps, and at the top of the steps is a banana hanging from the top of the cage. When the first ape starts up the steps, blast all five apes with ice cold water from a firehose for five minutes. When...

(written back in 2005) IT Is A Utility For most companies, IT is just as much a utility as HVAC, electricity, or plumbing is. The difference is that most companies don't keep a team of electricians or plumbers on staff. The basic service comes out of the wall ...

(5 October 2011) So a long time ago, the company I worked for at the time decided that the head office (which was in California) needed to have 24x7 access to a technical contact here in Ottawa. To gain this access they obtained a North-American-wide pager wit...

Problem Mixed-mode file systems suck. You'll have to be a bit more specific. Someone applied a CIFS ACL to a directory tree in a mixed mode filesystem and now the unix permissions are not usable. Specifically: there was a requirement to deny a Windows user (an...

Problem Doing an rsync to a filer, the user gets gratuitous errors: rsync: mkstemp "$LONGPATH/$FILE.gz.FiA0Vm" failed: Operation not permitted (1) Solution OK, that was painful. The root problem here is that this is a mixed-mode filesystem. In a mixed-mode fi...