Category Archives: Computing

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Hacking At Random

Posted on 13 August, 2009 by Matthias Scheler

Despite almost getting flushed away by rain during What The Hack Silke and I went on another camping event, the Hacking At Random. We arrived in Holland by car ferry early in the morning and drove to the campsite. When … Continue reading →

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Is there such a thing as too much disk space?

Posted on 3 May, 2009 by Matthias Scheler

As a geek I firmly believe that there is no such thing as too much CPU power, main memory, disk space or network bandwidth. Recently however my beliefs were put to a test. It started with a new 4GB CompactFlash … Continue reading →

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Phasing out Sendmail

Posted on 29 March, 2009 by Matthias Scheler

Three weeks ago I finally managed to finish one of my longest lasting IT projects at home: replacing the Sendmail MTA on all my NetBSD systems with Postfix. There were plenty of reasons for this migration: Sendmail’s configuration files are … Continue reading →

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