Posts in Lateral Opinion about sysadmin

When you upgrade a piece of software on Linux, there are two paths it can go when there are incompatible changes in the config files (ok, 3 paths, Debian asks you what to do): ...

2008-06-20 14:23:13

Adding MSN notifications to Argus

I am a user of Argus as a monitoring software. Since it's very flexible and easy to extend, I wanted to add MSN alerts, the same way I had added SMS alerts a while ago. It was easier than I thought! ...

2008-05-12 22:10:11

Wine kinda works nowadays

I had stopped trying to run stuff in WINE a few years ago,because pretty much nothing worked. ...

2008-04-15 17:13:36

Pop quiz!

Q: What happens if you have a SMTPA server, and you have a user called info, and then set its password to info? ...

2008-04-15 16:14:36

Linux as a windows crutch: Sending SMS

Suppose you want to send SMS messages from windows through a bluetooth connection to a phone. ...

2008-04-04 11:41:37

This is why Linux is not ready for the desktop

If you delete the empty directory /var/lib/xkb, then enable the KDE keyboard layout switcher, the up-arrow key works like print-screen. ...

2008-03-11 14:23:26

Good News: Linux gives life to old hardware. Bad News: Maybe in some cases it shouldn't.

I was in one of my customer's datacenters the other day, and while I do most work remotely, I had to take this opportunity to take some snapshots of their proxy server. ...

2008-03-07 07:43:47

New qmail plugin idea: overload

It should not happen but it does: Your qmail server is overloaded. Maybe you are under a DOS attack, or there is a reason why you are getting 10x your usual amount of mail. ...

2008-01-24 17:47:41

Yes, Xandros was horrible. But this ubuntu thing is working out nicely!

As I said before, the bastardized Xandros [1] sucked. In fact, I managed to destroy it. So I decided to switch to another distro. Any distro. ...

2007-11-30 16:40:28

No second part of "Rethinking linux configuration" today

I had to do a vry late night job yesterday, so I am not going to do it right today. Probably wednesday. ...

2007-11-28 15:51:51

If you are a qmail user: read this

- If you don't know what qmail-spp is, please check it out. It makes qmail much much better. ...

2007-11-28 14:01:26

Rethinking Linux Configuration: Part I

I have said Linux sucks. Here's my new project: Make it suck less, one bit at a time. ...

2007-11-23 20:03:45

Don't let them tell you the CLI is bad

I mean, can you do this on a GUI? ...

2007-11-23 17:32:48

Wanted: C programmer

Checking on my semi-dead projects, I found that one was almost finished but I had forgotten about it: rater ...

2007-11-16 14:54:30

What I want for christmas (The cool new trend on preloaded Linux)

Dear fictional character that oppreses the workers of the North Pole: This christmas, I want an Asus eee PC, an Everex gPC, and some bare white box with a nice Phoenix PC 3.0 BIOS. ...

2007-11-15 16:23:59

Bash does thing I never suspected.

Try this and be amazed: ...

2007-11-13 21:24:19

Windows XP is popular!

Or at least my article about it. ...

2007-11-13 10:12:14

Windows: my eXPerience

Can you be a computer consultant and generally a computer guy without ever installing windows? ...

2007-11-05 12:23:05

Dropping BIND, at least a little

One of my customers has about 15000 email accounts. ...

2007-09-13 15:00:19

Geek challenge: Backup this thing!

Here's the scenario: ...

2007-08-10 13:06:59

Good experience with VoIP service: Metrotel

Trying to create a more serious looking infrastructure for my consulting business, I decided I needed a non-mobile phone number, and a way to receive Faxes [1] . While I would use this as a secondary business number, it's just my home phone. ...

2007-07-29 12:06:04

Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part II

Second (or third) article on this series. Now we tackle why and how cron/at suck and what we can do about it. ...

2007-07-21 18:48:49

Making Linux systems that don't suck. Part I

One of the ways your linux system sucks, and what you can do about it: system notifications. ...

2007-06-19 11:08:25

I must be doing something right

Here are the two largest mail servers I manage. They handle over 20K users, with full mail service. ...

2007-05-20 22:37:03

Why I use Arch Linux

I have been an Arch Linux for a while now, and I am still liking it. ...

2007-05-18 14:25:05

Small software released: RA-WebPass

I just released a wee piece of software, called RA-WebPass which is simply a webpage that you can use to change linux system passwords. ...

2007-05-16 11:37:53

A KDE hack: Faster mail searches in kmail, using mairix

Kmail searches slowly. ...

2007-05-13 21:15:49

Sometimes I am stupid. Then again, it doesn't matter, because I am lucky!

I am working on changing BartleBlog so it can be used from scratch. That may sound odd but because I have been using it since day 2 to post this blog, it has grown very organically, meaning there are things that only work because of the way I used it while developing it. ...

2006-11-07 09:28:48

Veanme en CafeConf 2006! / See me at CafeConf 2006!

Como todos los años, voy a dar una charla en CafeConf 2006, el tema de este año es " Booteando más rápido y mejor usando runit " . ...

2006-11-07 09:28:48

Veanme en CafeConf 2006! / See me at CafeConf 2006!

Como todos los años, voy a dar una charla en CafeConf 2006, el tema de este año es " Booteando más rápido y mejor usando runit " . ...

2006-05-16 00:20:32

Using runit is even simpler

I have posted in the past about runit . ...

2006-05-16 00:20:32

Using runit is even simpler

I have posted in the past about runit . ...

2006-05-14 09:39:28

Booting with runit / runit RPM - updated

I have updated my Booting with runit story for the commands in runit 1.5.1 and included a mention for my easy runit RPM (which is now also up to 1.5.1). ...

2006-05-14 09:39:28

Booting with runit / runit RPM - updated

I have updated my Booting with runit story for the commands in runit 1.5.1 and included a mention for my easy runit RPM (which is now also up to 1.5.1). ...

2006-01-13 12:21:36

First piece of my "distro"

Here are runit RPM and SRPM for CentOS 4.2 (probably works on some other distros as well). ...

2005-08-02 19:17:36

Deployments and stuff

Have been reading the planets lately (I mean planetkde.org and planet.gnome.org, not astrology) and run into posts by Aaron Seigo and Luis Villa which are, let's say, interesting. ...

2005-08-02 19:17:36

Deployments and stuff

Have been reading the planets lately (I mean planetkde.org and planet.gnome.org, not astrology) and run into posts by Aaron Seigo and Luis Villa which are, let's say, interesting. ...

2005-03-20 23:59:12

UNIX stuff that makes no sense ( the rant)

First of all, I love Linux. I have used it exclusively since about 1994 (yeah, the last Windows I actually used for real was WfW 3.11). ...

2005-03-20 23:59:12

UNIX stuff that makes no sense ( the rant)

First of all, I love Linux. I have used it exclusively since about 1994 (yeah, the last Windows I actually used for real was WfW 3.11). ...

2005-03-20 23:59:12

UNIX stuff that makes no sense ( the rant)

First of all, I love Linux. I have used it exclusively since about 1994 (yeah, the last Windows I actually used for real was WfW 3.11). ...

2005-03-20 23:59:12

UNIX stuff that makes no sense ( the rant)

First of all, I love Linux. I have used it exclusively since about 1994 (yeah, the last Windows I actually used for real was WfW 3.11). ...

2005-03-19 23:59:12

Booting with runit

The first tutorial coming from my custom-distro experiments. Since it's a good idea to start at the beginning, here is... Booting with runit. ...

2005-03-17 23:59:12

Linux: a not-unix-like OS.

Well, I am still experimenting with my concept-distro. ...

2005-03-17 23:59:12

Linux: a not-unix-like OS.

Well, I am still experimenting with my concept-distro. ...

2005-03-17 23:59:12

Linux: a not-unix-like OS.

Well, I am still experimenting with my concept-distro. ...

2005-03-17 23:59:12

Linux: a not-unix-like OS.

Well, I am still experimenting with my concept-distro. ...

2005-03-15 23:59:12

Source-based distributions, the good side.

I am no fan of source-based distributions. I think that for most practical purposes, a distribution where installing KDE takes over a day (I own a lowly Duron as my fast computer) is useless. ...

2005-03-15 23:59:12

Source-based distributions, the good side.

I am no fan of source-based distributions. I think that for most practical purposes, a distribution where installing KDE takes over a day (I own a lowly Duron as my fast computer) is useless. ...

2004-10-13 16:03:28

Adventures in Hi-Fi

As I blogged earlier I am writing a game (and yes, it's pretty much playable already). ...

2004-10-13 16:03:28

Adventures in Hi-Fi

As I blogged earlier I am writing a game (and yes, it's pretty much playable already). ...

2004-10-13 16:03:28

Adventures in Hi-Fi

As I blogged earlier I am writing a game (and yes, it's pretty much playable already). ...

2003-12-20 13:07:28

Well ordered toolkits

I think some months of formal math training would do wonders for the average guy. ...

2003-12-20 13:07:28

Well ordered toolkits

I think some months of formal math training would do wonders for the average guy. ...

2003-12-01 13:01:04

Playing with Flonix

A Linux distro in my USB keychain. I will do a writeup on it in a day or two, probably, since the plan to work less is working (tuesdays and thursdays off already :-) ...

2003-12-01 13:01:04

Playing with Flonix

A Linux distro in my USB keychain. I will do a writeup on it in a day or two, probably, since the plan to work less is working (tuesdays and thursdays off already :-) ...

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