Monthly Archives: June 2004

Installing dspam on Fedora Core 1 with Sendmail and procmail

6/29/2004 – 11:55 pm

The recommended storage interface for dspam is MySQL, and after dealing with RedHat specific problems revolving around SleepyCat’s db4, I am not at all surprised. (More on that later if you encounter the same issue.) The simplest part, by contrast, is actually compiling the software and configuring Sendmail to call procmail such that dspam obtains [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Quick Guides | Comments Off

USB Flashcard reading fun

6/19/2004 – 3:57 pm

I found some useful guides on using a USB flash card reader under Linux. I had already compiled the modules in case I ever needed them, so I merely had to stick my flash card in. My reader supports four types, but I didn’t enable SCSI support to probe multiple LUNs, so only the first [...]

By jasonb | Posted in The LAN | Comments Off

Using the Xterasys 802.11g XN 2422G under Linux with NdisWrapper

6/19/2004 – 1:04 am

I was happy to learn that the Xterasys card uses the TI ACX111 chipset, which is already supported by NdisWrapper. (There is also experimental support using the ACX100 project‘s native Linux driver.) In fact, for Debian systems, it merely entails adding a single line to /etc/apt/sources.list. Once that’s complete, apt-get update and apt-get install ndiswrapper [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Quick Guides | Comments Off

Windows reinstall, attempt four

6/17/2004 – 11:49 pm

Once again, it’s time to reinstall Windows. Oops, I forgot it can’t deal with multiple controllers intelligently. Time to unplug the USB card reader it sees as a SCSI device and the SCSI disk drive. Reboot. Let’s try again. So sad. I never have to worry about hardware configuration changes owning Linux. And then, on [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Rants | Comments Off

Windows finally installed

6/17/2004 – 10:20 pm

It seems to be working, now. I moved some PCI cards around. Unsurprisingly, Linux worked fine throughout the entire ordeal. I should have 40GB x 2 RAID 1 once everything is complete. Sadly I seem to have run out of room in this midtower case. 1.5′ ATA cables really get messy when they need only [...]

By jasonb | Posted in The LAN | Comments Off

Windows 2000 blows up again

6/17/2004 – 2:43 am

So, here I am installing a 3Ware Escalade 6200 in my workstation. A simple procedure, right? I wish. Once Windows 2000 SP4 finally installed, explorer.exe immediately crashed on boot. No clue why. It’s just magically not working. Lovely, now msdtc.exe is experiencing a illegal instruction during reinstallation. Something’s toast.

By jasonb | Posted in The LAN | Comments Off

SpamAssassin spamvertiser domain blacklist

6/16/2004 – 2:13 pm

A new method for blocking spam based on URIs in the body came up on leaplist this week. I set it up and it’s already blocking mails.

By jasonb | Posted in General | Comments Off

PowerShot A60 time

6/16/2004 – 12:16 am

With Office Depot offering a $50 mail-in rebate, I finally bought a digital camera. I picked up the Canon PowerShot A60 this evening. It’s an impressive little device which comes with a surprisingly extensive amount of documentation. It looks like fun.

By jasonb | Posted in General | Comments Off

3Ware Escalde 7810 and 3 x30GB Segeate arrive

6/15/2004 – 3:55 pm

I found such a good deal on an 8 port 3Ware card, I couldn’t resist. I’ll probably setup 6 x 120GB on the backup server running RAID 5 on the 7810. When I can find some cheap 200GB disks, I’ll chain 3 x 200GB off the 7410 I currently have. Then, I should finally be [...]

By jasonb | Posted in The LAN | Comments Off

Solaris Security Hardening Links

6/10/2004 – 8:44 pm

I came across some excellent looking tools to lock down a Solaris box on sunhelp today. http://fixsolaris.sunhelp.org/ http://wwws.sun.com/software/security/jass/ http://www.yassp.org/

By jasonb | Posted in General | Comments Off