admin on April 29th, 2009

In the need for a quick pipeline to encrypt and decrypt data, gpg can be quite handy, for example it can be used in this way to encrypt  some backup before transferring it to a third part hosted  storage:
cat backupfile.tgz | gpg -c –cipher-algo=BLOWFISH > backupfile.tgz.gpg
(you’ll be asked for the Passphrase to use for encryption)
and [...]

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admin on April 21st, 2009

To clear the whole Postfix mail queue you can use this command:
~# for i in `mailq|grep ‘@’ |awk {’print $1′}|grep -v ‘@’`; do postsuper -d $i ; done
Thomas Sewell from coolsewell.com contributed with this helpful notes:
you could also just do:
postsuper -d ALL
to clear all mail queues or even
postsuper -d ALL deferred
to just get rid of [...]

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admin on April 21st, 2009

Sometimes a backup is needed but the server storage is not enough, in this case you must backup your data on the fly via the net, without the facility of storing locally and then transfer the data.
There are many methods to backup your data on the fly, using rsync via ssh is one for example, [...]

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admin on April 16th, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition makes it easy to experiment with cloud computing. Eucalyptus, an open source technology which is included in Ubuntu as a technology preview, enables you to use your own servers to deploy, experiment and test your own private cloud that matches the Amazon EC2 API. You can dynamically create virtual machines, configure [...]

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admin on September 23rd, 2008

Here follows a very well pointer on what blog trackbacks are and how do they work:
Wordpress Trackback Tutorial

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