When trying to set up a SSH tunnel through a remote host in order to bypass a pesky firewall, I received an error which I did not immediately understand. Continue reading »
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Aug 182011
Wine bug #8826 is about not having visible fire and smoke in the game Silent Hunter 3 until zoomed out really far. Not seeing the smoke and fires can be a bit strange, especially if you can hear the fire blazing, but nothing is visible. This post will attempt to explain how to apply a patch to wine so that fires and smoke are visible. Caution: this means you will have to patch the wine source code and compile it, then install it into an alternative location in order to preserve the wine version that shipped with your distribution. Continue reading »
Mar 232011
This article is as much a “how to” as it is for myself to document how I built a postfix front-end mail server for MS Exchange and integrated spam and virus scanning. The base for this server is a HP DL360, running openSUSE Linux 11.3., but it should work for most other distributions out there. It assumes you already have a running installation of Linux. We’ll be using postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and spamassassin.
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