System Administrator Appreciation Day

Friday, July 28th, 2006, is the 7th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day.

Configure Spamassassin on Qmailrocks

A good info on how to tweak your spam filtering rules in Spamassassin.. works also on QVCS..haven't tried on Qmailtoaster.

Configure Spamassassin on Qmailrocks

Open Source Symposium 2006

From an email that i received.

Experience the Power of Open Source Architecture
Feeling helpless and trapped with your existing proprietary platform and applications?
Held ransom by costly software upgrades?
Open source innovation is not a fad. It is here to stay. Enterprises around the world have migrated to Linux because they used to be as frustrated as you. Things happen for a reason. Especially good things. Isn’t it time you make them happen?


Philippines, Manila
Date:September 12

Time:9.00am - 5.30pm
Venue:Makati Shangri-la Manila Rizal A, Level 2 Ayala Avenue corner Makati Avenue, Makati City 1200, Philippines
Fee: USD99

SPAM Phrases # 1

This are some of the SPAM Phrases not detected by Spamassassin

*10k scholarship*
*Affordable top brand*
*RE: Big choice*
*re: Big choice*
*RE: Creditt*
*Fwd: Creditt*
*Extensive news*
*3400 Kilkenny Pl*
*MortReview*
*Low prices for all watches*
*SystemSoap*
*Crredit*
*Creedit*
*Creditt*
*Crediit*
*ch3ap*
*b4d*
*Analysis.Mort*
*AffordablE mEdicinE*
*888*
*777*
*3ff3ctiv3*
*You’re guaranteed of a fun*
*Hey Buddy*
*Brand New Every*
*Brand New It's*
*Superman Has Done It Again*
*Equity Report*
*A payout rate of over*
*Roller Cassino*
*cheap pills*
*ch3ap pills*
*MB.is*
*Re: Its true Confirmation*
*New Black and Beautiful*

Retro Mode

My friend borrowed my laptop for a project. These past few days, I'm using an old box. Fedora Core 4 is running nice on Pentium III 450 MHz and 320 MB RAM. Of course I have to use a light window manager, this time it's my old favorite WindowMaker. WM is readily available on FC4's yum repository.

I'm also in the process of looking for lighter apps. Dillo web browser is fine for reading some news and blogs. But I'm still using FireFox for blogging and Gmail purposes. For other email services, I'm using Sylpheed-Claws. I'm also looking into using XChat for IM purposes via BitlBee. As always, I use XMMS (Classic WinAmp-like app) for audio playing. As for office application (though I rarely use it), I use Abiword and Gnumeric.

Dare to Hack your IPOD

Hack your IPOD... Install Linux.... Full info on iPodLinux Project

Some Network Monitoring Tools

The following are some of the tools that we use in monitoring our systems/networks. Most of them are already available on your distro's repositories (e.g. yum, apt, YaST).

• EtherApe
• Ethereal
• AutoScan
• Nmap

That's it for now. There are other tools around, perhaps the other posters here can add more.

Qmailtoaster

I've been fiddling around with this guide. Except for some minor glitches (MySQL script), it seems to be a solid system. More posts coming up after I finished and tested my x86_64 installation.