Category Archives: computers

So I decided to install a full anti-virus and Spam filtering system on my web/mail server using Amavisd-new/ClamAV/SpamAssassin. This has gone pretty well especially since I’m using the Razor plugin for SpamAssassin. Razor is like a collaborative network of machines … Continue reading →

Kasia has compiled a good security checklist against the recent spate of ssh attacks. If you don’t know about this attack, read your log files, particularly the auth.log files and if you see repeated attempts to login as root, guest, … Continue reading →

Instead of trying to painfully compile GNOME 2.6 on the poor laptop, I very unwillingly decided that I should install linux on a separate partition on my mac and dual-boot between OS X and Linux. I installed Yellow Dog on … Continue reading →

I need to get a new laptop badly as my current one is way overdue for an upgrade. It’s more than 3 years old now and I keep trying to put new linux distros on it by mistake I loaded … Continue reading →

Woohoo! I’ve just placed my order for the new version of OSX, codenamed Panther. I qualified for the special upgrade offer for new Mac owners, and I got it for 14 pounds! This release (10.3) adds quite a number of … Continue reading →

(Click to enlarge) I’m posting this using NetNewsWire which is an RSS aggregator available on OSX. Simply put, it gathers news for me daily from several different websites and shows it to me in a nice 2 or 3-paned view, … Continue reading →

Although the Apple and OS X experience has been smooth sailing so far, a few problems with margins finally did crop up yesterday when my wife tried to print an old Word document that she created on a Windows machine. … Continue reading →

Been quite mad in the office the past few days since the move. Things are still not all organized yet, such as the ADSL connection, networking cables, etc. Everyday we come in and get distracted from work slightly. I just … Continue reading →

Finally the domain seems to have been transferred across ok. It took a little more than two days which is just fine. So now I have to add some more stuff soon. Let’s see how it goes.

Well, another delay. I’ve been upto so many different things in the past days and many new things have happened. A few days ago I got my video card changed since it wasn’t working properly in linux. I thought about … Continue reading →

Somehow I got really really tired yesterday and went to sleep early. But I didn’t manage to wake up early. After prayers I came back home, ate lunch and slept again! My mom forced me to wake up after 3 … Continue reading →

Yes, I’m still alive and well … I’ve been having some PC problems lately. I had to slow down the video card in my PC to make it run under X in Linux. And my modem isn’t working in linux … Continue reading →

I went to different hardware sites today and read and read and read a lot about the processors that are currently available on the market in order to decide on an upgrade path for my friend Siddiqi. Currently we are … Continue reading →