Over the last couple of months I have been struggling to deal with an increased level of SPAM. I run my own mail server (Debian, Postfix, Courier, ClamAV, SpamAssasin). About 2 months ago my server was hacked, at that time all I could find in terms of malicious damage was that the root password had …
Category Archive: Web/Mail Servers
Sep
06
Aug
14
One Hour And Indexed In Google Ranking 5 In The Serps
Just one hour ago I posted a blog post about work I have done today on the shed. My post talked about the product I have used for this which is Coroline corrugated bitumen roofing. I use the Google Bot Bling plugin for WordPress which tells you when Google has visited your site and emails …
Jul
31
Mysql Update Turns On Binary Logging
I recently ran an apt-get update on my Debian Etch server as I wanted to install pSpell for php. I found that the apt repros were out of date. After and Internet search I found that they have been archived. This is worrying that the OS that I am running is now seemingly obsolete but …
Jul
09
Fasthosts Dns Issues
Fasthosts have had ongoing DNS issues over the last three days. This is very frustrating as one of the domains affected by these problems is my Digitalquill.co.uk domain. Fasthosts did have a message up on their status page about these problems, but this has now been taken down but my domain is still affected. I …
Jun
07
Linux And Open Source Is Inherently Insecure
The title of this blog post will be a scandal in many people’s eyes; however, I will justify what I mean later in this post. In the technical circles there are many that continually bash the big commercial software companies, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and so on for producing software that contains bugs and security flaws …
Apr
14
Working On Some Exciting New Software For Selling Digital Downloads
Over the last few weeks I have been working on some exciting new software to add to my portfolio, it is slightly different to the other two products I have as it is not a WordPress plugin but it is a stand alone piece of software. During the time that i have been selling the …
Jan
27
Virtualbox
Following my recent re-install of my desktop machine I have followed the direction we are heading at work and setup Virtualbox with several environments each with a different OS. The Desktop PC I am running is relatively old, Pentium 4 1.8Ghz with 3Gb of RAM. I have the following running in Virtualbox Windows XP Windows …
Jan
17
Memopal Online Backup Service
I have suffered several computer failures in the past month or so, including a big failure of my web server. This has caused allot of problems for me personally and my businesses. I have therefore been looking at online backup services which seem to have been popping up all over the place recently. My first …
Jan
06
Still Sorting Out After Server Failure
I have at last got my mail serve back on line and checking SPAM although I am not too happy with how much SPAM is still getting through. I will tighten up the rules. I deliver SPAM to a Spam folder in each users mail boxes, I used to have a script that deleted emails …
Jan
02
Server Failure
If you have been trying to get to this blog over the last week or so you will have found that it has been down, along with all my other sites. This was due to a hardware failure on my web server, which coming as it did over the Christmas period has been somewhat frustrating. …
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