I was happy to receive Dov Zamir’s email announcing the creation of a fork of the DSPAM anti-spam filter, called dspam-community.
I have been using DSPAM for a while now, and am very happy with it, but was quite anxious that the project is left out by Sensory Networks (the company took over DSPAM in May 2007).
I give all my confidence in the fork as the original author, Jonathan Zdziarski, is part of the new development team!
I have prepared EXPERIMENTAL packages of the first RC of DSPAM-Community.
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IPv6 available on this site
Thanks to a recent article published on debian-administration.org, I have managed to get an IPv6 connectivity at home, and have hence decided to make this website available through IPv6.
I have used Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel service as recommended on Linode wiki, and everything seems to be working.
This was a really simple process (both at home and on my Linode!).
The AAAA DNS records have been set up.
While the propagation is being processed, you can still test using the IP 2001:470:1f06:ccf::2 (I now really understand why DNS have been created!). You can use ping6 or telnet -6 or even use your browser.
While browsing www.kirya.net using IPv6, you should get a message in the header (just below the links to RSS feeds) confirming your request have been served using IPv6.
Note that I haven’t yet set up all Apache virtual hosts to answer on IPv6, which might lead to some web pages being redirected to the defaut vhost. More over, the HTTP server will only answer to IPv6 request on port 80 (no SSL at the moment).
One month on Linode.com
I moved my services onto Linode one month ago. Since Then, everything is running smoothly, I am really impressed! No problem at all, which clearly wasn’t the case with my previous hosting companies.
PS: No, I am not paid by Linode and I have no link to them, but I think it is good to tell people when something is good.
This post is written in French as it is an invitation to my French readers to join the APRIL Association (more information on http://www.april.org/fr/presentation-april-association).
Pour encore mieux promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre l’April a lancé, avec le soutien de Tristan Nitot (président de Mozilla Europe), le 12 novembre 2008 une nouvelle grande campagne d’adhésion.
L’objectif de l’April est d’établir une structure de promotion et de défense du logiciel libre avec des moyens à la hauteur des enjeux.
Pour cela, l’April a besoin du soutien de tous.
Adhérer à l’April n’implique pas d’être actif dans l’association. Mais forte de milliers de membres, l’April obtiendra plus facilement l’audience des élus et du gouvernement. Grâce à nos cotisations, elle pourra financer ses permanents et embaucher les personnes qu’exigent ses actions et les dossiers de plus en plus complexes qu’elle traite.
Cette campagne d’adhésion a pour but de renforcer l’April dans sa représentativité et dans ses moyens d’actions. L’April souhaite atteindre dans un premier temps les 5 000 membres avant la fin de l’année 2008.
Pour rejoindre l’April : http://www.april.org/adherer
Plus d’informations sur la campagne d’adhésion : http://www.april.org/fr/tristan-nitot-appelle-a-adherer-a-lapril-pour-soutenir-ses-actions-de-promotion-et-defense-du-logiciel-libre
“The Definitive Guide to symfony” is part of the official documentation of the symfony PHP Web framework.
This book can be read online, and is published under the GFDL license. Hhowever, reading a printed copy allows a better in-depth understanding of this framework. It is very well written, with a lot of examples. It is directed to either newbies wanting to begin developing web applications with symfony, or experts, as it can be used as a quick reference for specific aspects of the web framework.
Though the book was updated online for newer releases of symfony, no new revision was printed at the moment of writing. Symfony 1.0 remains the preferred stable branch for long term projects, with its 3 years support (until January 2010).
For those who like having a book in their hands and want to use a simple but powerful web framework, here is the Amazon link for buying a printed copy.
VPS moved to the US!
Nothing related with the recent election of Barak Obama as President of the USA, but I have just finished moving all my services to Linode.com, after less than 2 unfortunate months at OVH (no link). So far, I really appreciate what Linode propose to their customers.
DNS haven’t yet been finished propagating (should be done in the next hours). Should you notice any issues with my website or any other services run on this VPS, please contact me.