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  1. Re:"exacerbating poverty and inequality" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Silicon Valley Continues To Explore Universal Basic Incomes (siliconvalley.com)

    I know that won't go over well here since 95% of Slashdot would have to die

    Except creimer. He's a miracle worker - "pig like that, you don't eat all at once."

    Besides, he's already proven he's willing to live on poverty wages and thank his employers for the privilege. He's no drain on the system.

  2. Perl POD Documentation by LogicX · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Comments are More Important than Code

    How about Perl's POD Documentation? I do a lot of hacking of Matt Simerson's Mail::Toaster and Nictool projects, and I find that the Perl POD Documentation system, combined with well-named variables is easy on the eyes, and leads to it being well interpreted by an outsider.

  3. Re:Something Different by notestein · · Score: 1 · on EnGarde Secure Linux v2 Out

    I use this Mail Toaster for FreeBSD.

  4. My solution: The mail toaster by gregwbrooks · · Score: 1 · on Are PTR Records Important?
    I know this isn't a debate over various mail servers, but Matt Simerson's qmail-based "mail toaster" just added checks against several a bunch of open-relay blacklists and reverse-DNS lookup against the sender's "From" field as options in the build script.

    Together, these have reduced about 90% of the spam my users were receiving.

    The toaster (basically qmail with tarpitting, secure remote access and apache/mysql for a webmail component) is secure, free and supported by an active mail list. You might want to give it a look.

  5. A complete solution - the FreeBSD toaster by gregwbrooks · · Score: 3, Informative · on Mailing List Managers?
    If you go here you'll find a great recipe (including install scripts) for a FreeBSD-based solution that includes Qmail and EZMLM-idx, but also includes a webmail interface and wicked-cool support for virtual domains. The setup is supported by an active e-mail list and it's been rock-solid on my moderate-sized lists, as well as much larger lists used by others.

    Probably more of a solution than you need, but it's a very good way to take a generic boxen and quickly turn it into a slam-dunk mail server and listserver.

    The guy who developed it (Matt Simerson) is uber-conscious of security issues and a helluva nice guy to boot; he's put together an exceptionally tight package from a security standpoint. If nothing else, you may want to look at what he's got and do a modified or stripped-down install.

  6. Re:What kind of cluster? by Havokmon · · Score: 2 · on Mandrake Announces Turn-Key Clustering Distribution
    So, what kind of HA (High-Availability) or Failover turnkey clusters are available for Linux?

    To do what? File Serving? SQL Server?

    I believe NFS is 'HA', and I believe Postgres SQL would also be HA. There are also Linux-based load balancers available, so if you wanted to do something as simple as have 2 servers with static web pages, the load balancer would NAT those two systems, and direct requests to whatever one had the lowest load. That includes being completely down too :)

    One nifty HA application is Email. Take a look at Matt Simersons FreeBSD email toaster (The Same apps are available on Linux) for a way to setup a HA Email cluster. It describes one system, but add NFS and MySQL replication, and you have HA.

  7. Re:qmail anyone? :) by cymen · · Score: 2 · on CERT: Sendmail Distribution Contained Trojan Horse

    Matt Simerson's Qmail Toaster

    Doh...

  8. qmail by jabbo · · Score: 4, Informative · on Improving Unix Mail Storage?
    This is just too easy.

    Life With Qmail

    Building a Linux Qmail Toaster

    Same thing, but with FreeBSD (more scalable, in my experience)

    have fun

  9. Re:Overkill??? by Havokmon · · Score: 3, Informative · on Linux On Big Iron
    I would tend to agree, but it's also possible they're planning a large acquisition and need the horsepower to support a few thousand new employees instantly.

    That's possible too, but head on over to Matt Simerson's FreeBSD Toaster. I'm SURE that could easily support a few thousand users in a clustered environment (NFS & Mysql)
    Need more users? Add another box.

  10. Want to install SMTP-Auth? by Havokmon · · Score: 2 · on Open Relays, Free Speech, and Virus Propagation
    Go here for a nifty little toaster, or skip on over to www.vfemail.net, and create your own account!

  11. Everybody can do this by rainer_d · · Score: 1 · on Secure Web-based Email

    Try the qmail FreeBSD Mail-Toaster.

    Great performance, no cost, no egomaniac comments in the source. ;-)

    FreeBSD is so stable, I've already forgotten where my colo-facility is (sort-of)...