SpamAssassin 2010 Bug
I first heard of the SpamAssassin 2010 bug in an email notice from cPanel and then saw it mentioned on LWN. The full details of the incident can be read in the bug report.
Remote Encrypted Storage Revisited
Introduction I’ve been using my Dropbox / encfs combination since April and it’s worked great. Lately, however, I’ve come across some areas where I would like to see some improvement. Namely: I want it truly cross-platform — this solution does not work with any OS that does not support encfs. I want control of my [...]
Practical Remote Encrypted Storage
Introduction I’ve been looking for an easy way to keep my important files off-site and secure at the same time. When putting together what I thought would be my perfect solution, I came up with the following features: Automatic — no manual synchronizing or uploading. Secure — encrypted file storage and file transfers. Portable — [...]
VMWare Tools on Ubuntu 8.04 Server
Introduction I maintain a VMWare Server (not ESX) that currently hosts 9 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS guests. To my mistake, I never thought of installing VMWare Tools on any of them until I started seeing premature performance bottlenecks. Being tasked with 9 installations, I could either install the Tools on each guest manually or look for [...]