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Here’s how I keep on top of updating the GeoIP binary databases used by various scripts and applications I use.

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Installing VMware on Ubuntu 7.10 isn’t as easy as Ubuntu usually makes things out to be. None the less, my handy how to will sort you out. (more…)

I’ve just stumbled over a PDF scanning engine for SpamAssassin. In light of the recent PDF spam making it’s way round the internet I figured I’d give it a try.

This plug in scans the PDF pdf body and embedded images. Great, huh?

Here’s how I did it. (more…)

FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin that analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mail and spam.

I’ve been running it on some mail servers for a few months now and I’m very happy with the results. (more…)

This article will guide you through installing pure-ftpd configured for virtual hosts using mysql as the authentication mechanism. It assumes you have a functioning Linux server running mysql already. (more…)

Here’s my mini guide on creating SSL certificates for use in Apache.
I create a lot of these things, so saving 45 seconds per request really adds up!

* Well, it depends how fast you can type copy and paste. (more…)

This is a mini howto on installing eAccelerator.

eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Summary: Makes your PHP faster.

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PowerAdmin has been around since 21st October 2002, approximately 19:41 in the evening. Although it is a fantastic web based interface to PowerDNS with MySQL backend it hasn’t been updated since 2002. There has been a few updates now and again by 3rd parties, but nothing very positive.

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Christopher J. Buckley has posted a good article on protecting against current spam attacks. Go on, take a look.

I recently setup awstats on two Intranet servers for a client. Local web server log analysis software seems to be going the way of the Big-eared Hopping Mouse.

• Analog hasn’t been updated in forever.
• Webalizer hasn’t been updated in forever.
• Firestats is fantastic, I use this on Internet based sites with Google Analytics
  * It’s AJAX just doesn’t like mod_auth_ntlm or the other way round.

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