Access your e-mail on your phone w/ Flurry

Flurry is a pretty cool new service/application which helps you bring all your countless e-mail accounts and favorite news headlines to your cellphone. Signing up for an account is free, and you’ll receive a text message with a link to download the application. After you’ve set that up, you can access any number of POP [...]

A working list of apps not working on Vista

Microsoft may be reticent to provide a list of what is not working on Vista, but that isn’t stopping others from going public with their findings. The folks over on IEXBeta.com have published as a Wiki a list of applications that work (mostly) well; work somewhat less well and don’t work at all with Windows [...]

Prevent from using (reuse) same old passwords under Linux

PAM is a flexible mechanism for authenticating users.
There is a module called pam_unix. This module provides functionality for PAM modules such as authentication, account management etc.
Same module can be used to maintain a list of old passwords for every user. This is useful if you want to disallow use [...]

Tracking System Changes of an Application Install

Today’s tip is on monitoring the changes made to your Windows system during the installation of an application. We’ll be using a utility called InCtrl5, which was developed by PC Magazine. This utility will allow us to track all filesystem and registry changes associated with an application’s installation. Knowing this information can [...]

Understand IPv6 Addresses

For general knowledge on what IPv6 has to offer the following article is not a bad one.
In the olden days, it was possible to skate over understanding the binary math behind IPv4 addresses by memorizing the various classes and their address ranges. That won’t work for IPv6. Get yourself an IP address calculator and learn [...]

Linux mail server: How to fight image spam

This is getting out of control these days.
There is an interesting article at LWN about Fighting image spam.
From the article:
A number of spammers have been evading filters like SpamAssassin (SA) recently by encoding their messages as images. SA already has a set of rules that are meant to combat image spam, but the more recent [...]

MySQL backup and data recovery with mysql-zrm

This guide describes how to back up and recover your MySQL databases with mysql-zrm on a Debian Sarge system. mysql-zrm is short for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL, it is a new tool that lets you create full logical or raw backups of your databases (regardless of your storage engine and MySQL configuration), generate reports [...]