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Fighting Spam

Fighting spam

Introduction

This page describes some ways in which you can help fight spam or at least reduce the amount of spam you receive in your Inbox. It doesn’t go in to any detail on how to install or setup spamd or spamc for example or how to use the SpamAssassin configuration in a “global” sense (although it’s possible to do).

Some of the configuration file locations may be distribution specific. Some of the configuration options may not work for your release of Linux distribution/release XYZ.

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Small Hosting

I’m looking for 1U, possibly 2U, of hosting (initially; may well be more later) somewhere between Reading and Bristol. No huge bandwidth requirement, but I must be able to get physical access if needed, and of course good availability. — KeithEdmunds

UK Hosting

Things to consider about moving out of London:

  • The datacentres outside London are more often based on one ISP’s transit, i.e. the same company that provides you IP transit also owns the facility and this is the only company you can use for IP transit. That means you can’t shop around for [continued…]

Lspci Output

The output of lspci -n is pretty cryptic. If you want to know what all the numbers mean, read on…

hrm@joshua:hrm $ lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:3580 (rev 02) 0000:00:00.1 0880: 8086:3584 (rev 02) 0000:00:00.3 0880: 8086:3585 (rev 02) 0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:3582 (rev 02) 0000:00:02.1 0380: 8086:3582 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 03) 0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 83) 0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24cc (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24ca (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.6 0703: 8086:24c6 (rev 03) 0000:01:04.0 0280: 8086:4220 (rev [continued...]

Disks And Partitions

(NOTE: This is a work in progress. Don’t add it to the index pages)

Disk partitioning in Linux can be confusing. This article attempts to take some of the mystery out of it.

Disk controllers and disks

The first thing to know about is the naming of disks. Linux’s approach to disk naming is slightly confusing, and requires a little knowledge about the hardware.

Linux treats different types of disk hardware differently. Concentrating on commodity PC hardware, there are four or five main types of storage hardware available:

Pseudo Root

Introduction

This document outlines some of the things that you can do to make your life easier when needing to perform tasks as user root while still logged in as your normal self. Doubtless many people are su’ing to root to perform tasks. That’s fine for single commands, but there are other means, which this article will look at. You may well be wondering why not just log in as user “root” all the time. The answer is simple. Unless one never makes a mistake in typing, and trusts everything running won’t ever damage one’s computer, then go [continued…]

Customising Fluxbox

Customising (and using) fluxbox

Introduction

Fluxbox is a Window Manager, just like KDE, GNOME, XFCE4 etc. At first, fluxbox looks very basic but with a few tweaks, it’s a very nice window manager and extremely fast. I once thought XFCE4 was fast…

This guide will go through some of the things I’ve done with my fluxbox install.

Very quick introducing to using fluxbox

To get it running, simply put exec fluxbox in your .xsession file and run startx

You’ll notice fluxbox is very minimal (and fast!). If you right click anywhere on your desktop it’ll [continued…]

2nd October2004

When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 2nd October 2004

Where: SeminarRoom1, Building 59 (Zepler), Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.

Who was there