I'm scheduled to give a talk at the ICT Expo this Friday afternoon on "Linux and some of its friends in the enterprise " So what should I be talking about? Of course I have some ideas already formulated, but what kind of images / ideas spring to mind when someone mentions OSS and business? Are we talking about desktops? Servers? Mail? Web? Replacements for proprietary … [Read more...] about Open Source In Business?
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Whois vs DAS
One of the few things that Eurid seem to have done properly is providing a DAS server to supplement whois lookups. While a whois query on a .eu domain will return none too verbose results the das query is simplistic: whois -h das.eu:4343 get 1.0 mneylon % .eu Domain Availability Server 1.0 % % (c) 2005 (http://www.eurid.eu) % %% RC = 0 Domain: mneylon Status: REGISTERED No … [Read more...] about Whois vs DAS
Linux Email for the part-time sysadmin
A lot of small to medium sized businesses do not have dedicated IT staff. They may outsource to an IT services company, but more often than not somebody is "elected" as the resident "IT expert" as they know slightly more than their colleagues. … [Read more...] about Linux Email for the part-time sysadmin
Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Released
The latest version of Ubuntu has officially been released. The release comes shortly after the news that ie.archive.ubuntu.com is now mirrored in Dublin by Heanet … [Read more...] about Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Released
Postgrey – Greylisting In Postfix on Ubuntu (Debian)
A lot of mail server admins have been forced to implement some form of spam checks at the SMTP level. Some of the implementations are quite demented and probably do more harm than good, whereas others are extremely sane. … [Read more...] about Postgrey – Greylisting In Postfix on Ubuntu (Debian)