Posts Tagged ‘Geek’

Switched to GIT

After having converted my packages to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format, I have decided to move everything to GIT.
rkhunter was moved to Alioth’s collab-maint project, and I have set up a personal GIT repository for the other packages.
This page on the wiki has helped a lot.
I now need to learn how to use this [...]

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Email management and spam fighting, testing Google Apps

I have been thinking a lot lately about email management and spam fighting.
For my personal email, I use a setup based on Postfix, RBL and WL, grey listing, and DSPAM (by the way, you can find unofficial packages of current development version in my personal repository).
To better train DSPAM, I have removed all other filters [...]

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Xorg input hotplug

I had written a few weeks ago about my new (almost) empty xorg.conf file and explained how I had to edit an HAL .fdi file to change my keyboard layout and define my compose key.
The Debian Xstrike Force have written a complete guide on the Debian wiki explaining this input hotplug system.
I have found that [...]

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Switched to Pulseaudio

Following to an issue with esound not playing GNOME system sounds, I have decided to give Pulseaudio a try.
Installing the pulseaudio package pulled all necessary dependencies, including the esound compatibility plugin. I have added local users to the pulse-rt group, as recommended. After this, all worked perfectly except the main channel was muted and its [...]

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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 [...]

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