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- 60 Seconds of WIP
15: Cheese Mover Habits
Here’s a few words about system upgrades–or, rather, a few words about about system upgrades. Modern systems administrators have outsourced their…
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14: Competent Spammers
Here’s a few words on the Sender Policy Framework, aka SPF, aka omg why please no no no. SPF is often touted as an anti-spam measure. It isn’t. It’s one…
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13: The Only Right We Have
Today I’m reading from a story that’s coming out this winter, “The Rats’ Man’s Lackey and the Forbidden Tinsel.” I’d agreed…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 14 September 2023
Today we have a tidbit from Run Your Own Mail Server, where I discuss debugging submission at the command line. Don’t leap straight to OpenSSL or a TLS-aware…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 7 September 2023
Run Your Own Mail Server has finally forced me to write a bit about netcat versus telnet. Netcat is a flexible network tool that, among other things, allows…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 31 August 2023
Today’s reading is from the Kickstarter-supported afterword from Apocalypse Moi. I have no idea if this will make it into the final book. I write things…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 24 August 2023
Today’s reading is from an as-yet-untitled Christmas story. Yes, I write Christmas stories. And I sell them to anthologies. We go through a lot of coal…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 17 August 2023
Today’s snippet is from Run Your Own Mail Server, discussing Dovecot’s password algorithms. You also get a footnote. What are all these algorithms…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 10 August 2023
Today’s snippet is from Run Your Own Mail Server, discussing local databases in Postfix. We discussed the aliases file back in Chapter 1. An alias is a…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 3 August 2023
Today’s snippet is from Run Your Own Mail Server, discussing LMTP versus dovecot-lda(1). Once multiple messages start arriving simultaneously it’s much…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 27 July 2023
Today’s snippet is from Run Your Own Mail Server. Here’s a tidbit about the link between Unix accounts and email addresses. I expected to be…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 20 July 2023
I finally got to see a historical-rules baseball game over at Greenfield Village, which gave me the background I needed to write the final stretch goal for…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 13 July 2023
Hi folks! Many folks don’t know I write the “We Get Letters” column for the FreeBSD Journal. You can download the PDFs free from their web…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 10 July 2023
Welcome to a bonus “Lucas is debugging his web site’s podcast settings to see if he can auto-syndicate” episode of 60 Seconds of WIP! Because…
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60 Seconds of WIP, 7 July 2023
My extensive survey of precisely one person shows that nobody wants to look at my face, so I’m switching these over to MP3. When surveyed, I was very firm on…