I wrote this howto a while back ago. It explains what is needed to be done in setting up a secure Postfix SMTP server with TLS/SSL and SMTP-AUTH. It isn't fully done (but the meat is there). I hope someone will find it useful.
Sunny Dubey
PS: no I have *not* submitted it to postfix.org, for it is not done, and its doesn't have all that I want in it. (Must add virus/spam scanning to it first)
I wonder how many good job offers MS has floated by Linus?
Probably none actually. Reason is being they have a great fear of the GPL. If in the event any of their code has any GPL code, they would have to GPL the whole thing. In this day and age, Linus is pretty much married to the GPL. So it would be unpossible for MSFT to even contemplate hiring him.
Shake is also costs twice as much for linux. Enough that it's cheaper to get a powermac and shake than to get a linux box and shake.. that's intentional.
It should be noted that Weta Digital opted for the more expensive Shake+Linux combination than going the full Mac route, heh
No it won't. Maybe at companies owned by Steve Jobs, like Pixar, but AMD64 has won the war. Even intel surrendured.
Nice troll. Quickly modded up of course because it's pro-Apple.
Wow this is ironic, you should see some of my previous posts, you'll see I'm anything but apple friendly.
I think you are confused as well. IBM created the PPC64 hardware, not Apple. (Additionally IBM did so even before Apple needed to use PPC64.) Therefore, PPC64 != Apple. I root for PPC64 for many reasons, but mainly because it is an alternative to AMD64/Intel64, and because it is an impressive hardware platform.
One day PPC64 will be just as common as AMD64 in the server room...
Sunny Dubey
Re:thank god for FreeBSD
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Ah, you sound young to the word of *nix, heh
But I switched because upgrading IS HELL ON LINUX. It really is simpler on FreeBSD. All the ports are tested. Perfect? No, but hell and I mean hell of alot better then RPM.
Upgrading isn't hell. All I have to do is "urpmi.update -a ; urpmi --update --auto-select", and I've upgraded software or the entire distro. Do not fault the "linux upgrading system" for the sheer stupidy Redhat used to employ. Also RPM is rather powerful, but once again thanks to the stupidity of redhat, RPM has been marred for life. No matter how cool other people (mandrake, yellow dog, etc) do with it there are lots of ignorant people who will hate it automatically, even if they haven't tried the newer set of tools.
the profile system under Unix is meant for a centralized mainframe/server and dumb terminals for each user. All the apps are on 1 system so all you need under/home are the setting files for programs. Windows/Novell profiles on the other hand are the opposite. Only policies are uploaded while apps are local to the client. I am hoping Novell will change this after they buy SuSE.
You give no clear reason why you desire this massive un-UNIX like change. Also thanks to nss_ldap, much of the above can be done in one manner or another. (however, nss_ldap requires running nscd unless you want massive lagage, but that in turn causes sync'ing issues. One day all fo this will be fix0red. Only linux and Solaris support nsswitch(), none of the BSD's support it in a correct manner, therefore this is not possible with them.)
Why the hell do.so's or newer versions of glibc are incompatible with the old versions?
Because the binaries are linked that way. (read my other comments to see how all this works out.)
I can run an ancient Windows95 or Windows3.11 app without a problem under Windows2000.
Thats because retarded Windows applications like to over-write critical libraries with their own versions. Hence why Windows has a "roll-back" feature, and why LongHorn's WinFS allows for invisible versions of the same file. Its to allow for sheer windows programming stupidity.
Why can't they just keep older libraries and make a seperate newer one?
No one ever said you can't install old libs, I do it all the time to play old dynamically linked binary only games on my linux machine.
If the developer wants to link to the new one they can but the old one should be linked at compile and execution automatically.
Thats gotta be the biggest "dum-ass" idea ever (and yes, I spelt dum instead of dumb.). Different libs have different features, calls, etc. Go read a CS book to see why the MSFT people are smoking real crack. (go read ESR's "art of unix programming" to see why they're on more than just crack)
Sunny Dubey
Re:thank god for FreeBSD
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I'm sick of this shit, I love you BSD guys and all, but lets think about this:
Just do a cvsup to the latest ports tree. and portupgrade all your ports.
No offense, but this has got to be the most over-simplified system of upgrading ever. I've rarely found people who been able to cleanly update their system the way FreeBSDers keep telling us. Additionally its just not logical to do on 25+ machines.
urpmi, yum, apt, and the ilk are much more suited where many many boxen are involved and the cost of sysadmin time, can be high for an employer. (not to mention the computing resources needed for such a huge compile)
Sunny Dubey
For those who want PPC970 without getting a Mac...
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Is not the same at nick completion. That only adds whatever you desire to the end of of a completed/nick. (And thanks to some odd Xchat bug, it only works with a single char, though some of the code clearly supports using more than a single char.)
I could to totally wrong on this, but from what I've seen great features are being removed from really cool apps in this absurd strive for a "simpler interface"
Case in point:
Xchat used to have this GUI option called "Old Nick Completion" (Its like zsh's tab completion, but for IRC) But now it doesn't. The code for the function is still there, but the GUI option is not. No offense to the xchat guys, but this easily robs people of a great IRC great experience.
This is for your New Yorkers who know what I'm talking about. (wifi service in the island of Manhattan free for all verizon dsl/dialup users)
What is to be careful of? Fake Verizon-WIFI APs. No joke. I was walking down 14th street next to Broadway, and suddenly I wanted to hop online to check what the weather would be for later that day.
I pop out my Zaurus, pop in my wifi card, and start sniffing for whatever wireless networks I can get to. I hit a Verizon-WIFI AP, which works for me being that my company is a customer of theirs. I pop in my Verizon Online password, and my password, hit enter, and I'm in.
Except for ONE problem. I typed in my username wrong! (Zaurus 5600 owners know how much of a bitch it is to type numbers with the damn Fn key.) But I still got in!!! I reconnected, typed in a bogus user/pass, and still had zero issues getting in.
At first I didn't realize what was going on (being that I was late for class, and rushing like crazy). But then it dawned on me, that this was a fake AP setup to steal real verizon user-names and passwords. Pretty slick if you ask me.
Yeah yeah, not too related to the topic at hand, but other verizon customers may want to know
Poor Mandrake, seems like every time they go gold on a release one of the major components gets a major upgrade:)
Not true:
First, Mandrake 10.0 was NOT the final release, it was the community release. The final release of Mandrake 10.0 (due soonish) will have all the fixes and whatever else is desired.
Secondly (don't quote me on this), but I believe many of Mandrake's KDE 3.2 packages have the various patches needed to make it a better desktop all around.
I'm not too sure why they selected Xandros or Lindows over Mandrake for such a review.
Unlike either of the two, Mandrake is composed of 100% FLOSS, is freely available, and it simply "kicks ass".
In fact, I'm some what insulted they chose lindows at all. Lindows is a rather craptacular distro, with super annoying marketing practises, and a high yearly fee for people to get additional software.
Debian-style package management for Mandrake. I like apt-get, especially in conjunction with the kpackage front end. I also like Mandrake's installer {though I can put up with Debian's command line interface}.
This is like the more ignorant statement one can make.
First Mandrake has URPMI, which works just like apt-get. Secondly Mandrake has RpmDrake, which is a *PURE* GUI front end for URPMI.
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Hi guys,
Postfix + TLS/SSL + SMTP-AUTH HOWTO
I wrote this howto a while back ago. It explains what is needed to be done in setting up a secure Postfix SMTP server with TLS/SSL and SMTP-AUTH. It isn't fully done (but the meat is there). I hope someone will find it useful.
Sunny Dubey
PS: no I have *not* submitted it to postfix.org, for it is not done, and its doesn't have all that I want in it. (Must add virus/spam scanning to it first)
I wonder how many good job offers MS has floated by Linus?
Probably none actually. Reason is being they have a great fear of the GPL. If in the event any of their code has any GPL code, they would have to GPL the whole thing. In this day and age, Linus is pretty much married to the GPL. So it would be unpossible for MSFT to even contemplate hiring him.
Sunny Dubey
Shake is also costs twice as much for linux. Enough that it's cheaper to get a powermac and shake than to get a linux box and shake.. that's intentional.
It should be noted that Weta Digital opted for the more expensive Shake+Linux combination than going the full Mac route, heh
Sunny Dubey
2.6.4? OLD-SK00L!
I'm not too sure if parent was kidding around or not. But at the rate 2.6x has been going, the above is pretty much true.
Sunny Dubey
This is similar to the infamous psDooM (aka: DooM for Sys Admins)
Sunny Dubey
No it won't. Maybe at companies owned by Steve Jobs, like Pixar, but AMD64 has won the war. Even intel surrendured. Nice troll. Quickly modded up of course because it's pro-Apple.
Wow this is ironic, you should see some of my previous posts, you'll see I'm anything but apple friendly.
I think you are confused as well. IBM created the PPC64 hardware, not Apple. (Additionally IBM did so even before Apple needed to use PPC64.) Therefore, PPC64 != Apple. I root for PPC64 for many reasons, but mainly because it is an alternative to AMD64/Intel64, and because it is an impressive hardware platform.
Sunny Dubey
40+ patches, ouch :)
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One day PPC64 will be just as common as AMD64 in the server room
Sunny Dubey
Ah, you sound young to the word of *nix, heh
/home are the setting files for programs. Windows/Novell profiles on the other hand are the opposite. Only policies are uploaded while apps are local to the client. I am hoping Novell will change this after they buy SuSE.
.so's or newer versions of glibc are incompatible with the old versions?
But I switched because upgrading IS HELL ON LINUX. It really is simpler on FreeBSD. All the ports are tested. Perfect? No, but hell and I mean hell of alot better then RPM.
Upgrading isn't hell. All I have to do is "urpmi.update -a ; urpmi --update --auto-select", and I've upgraded software or the entire distro. Do not fault the "linux upgrading system" for the sheer stupidy Redhat used to employ. Also RPM is rather powerful, but once again thanks to the stupidity of redhat, RPM has been marred for life. No matter how cool other people (mandrake, yellow dog, etc) do with it there are lots of ignorant people who will hate it automatically, even if they haven't tried the newer set of tools.
the profile system under Unix is meant for a centralized mainframe/server and dumb terminals for each user. All the apps are on 1 system so all you need under
You give no clear reason why you desire this massive un-UNIX like change. Also thanks to nss_ldap, much of the above can be done in one manner or another. (however, nss_ldap requires running nscd unless you want massive lagage, but that in turn causes sync'ing issues. One day all fo this will be fix0red. Only linux and Solaris support nsswitch(), none of the BSD's support it in a correct manner, therefore this is not possible with them.)
Why the hell do
Because the binaries are linked that way. (read my other comments to see how all this works out.)
I can run an ancient Windows95 or Windows3.11 app without a problem under Windows2000.
Thats because retarded Windows applications like to over-write critical libraries with their own versions. Hence why Windows has a "roll-back" feature, and why LongHorn's WinFS allows for invisible versions of the same file. Its to allow for sheer windows programming stupidity.
Why can't they just keep older libraries and make a seperate newer one?
No one ever said you can't install old libs, I do it all the time to play old dynamically linked binary only games on my linux machine.
If the developer wants to link to the new one they can but the old one should be linked at compile and execution automatically.
Thats gotta be the biggest "dum-ass" idea ever (and yes, I spelt dum instead of dumb.). Different libs have different features, calls, etc. Go read a CS book to see why the MSFT people are smoking real crack. (go read ESR's "art of unix programming" to see why they're on more than just crack)
Sunny Dubey
I'm sick of this shit, I love you BSD guys and all, but lets think about this:
Just do a cvsup to the latest ports tree. and portupgrade all your ports.
No offense, but this has got to be the most over-simplified system of upgrading ever. I've rarely found people who been able to cleanly update their system the way FreeBSDers keep telling us. Additionally its just not logical to do on 25+ machines.
urpmi, yum, apt, and the ilk are much more suited where many many boxen are involved and the cost of sysadmin time, can be high for an employer. (not to mention the computing resources needed for such a huge compile)
Sunny Dubey
You should check out: Momentum Computer
Sure its pricey, but I suppose if your interested in such price isn't the key issue.
Sunny Dubey
preferences->input box->"nick completion suffix
/nick. (And thanks to some odd Xchat bug, it only works with a single char, though some of the code clearly supports using more than a single char.)
Is not the same at nick completion. That only adds whatever you desire to the end of of a completed
Sunny Dubey
I could to totally wrong on this, but from what I've seen great features are being removed from really cool apps in this absurd strive for a "simpler interface"
Case in point:
Xchat used to have this GUI option called "Old Nick Completion" (Its like zsh's tab completion, but for IRC) But now it doesn't. The code for the function is still there, but the GUI option is not. No offense to the xchat guys, but this easily robs people of a great IRC great experience.
For proof of what I'm talking about:
a) look at this patch: Xchat Old Nick Completion Patch
B) the Mandrake Xchat package ships with the above patch
C) download the Xchat source code, and take a gander. Then notice how your own Xchat installation is missing this great feature
Lets not dumb down GREAT SOFTWARE like Xchat!
Sunny Dubey
Because Redhat != Fedora.
Sunny Dubey
Oh man,
You can't even hit up ebay for anything these days without getting billions of those.
Add the professional snipers, and Ebay wasn't what it used to be (well what did we expect ? heh)
Sunny Dubey
BE DEAD CAREFUL OF VERIZON's WIFI SERVICE
This is for your New Yorkers who know what I'm talking about. (wifi service in the island of Manhattan free for all verizon dsl/dialup users)
What is to be careful of? Fake Verizon-WIFI APs. No joke. I was walking down 14th street next to Broadway, and suddenly I wanted to hop online to check what the weather would be for later that day.
I pop out my Zaurus, pop in my wifi card, and start sniffing for whatever wireless networks I can get to. I hit a Verizon-WIFI AP, which works for me being that my company is a customer of theirs. I pop in my Verizon Online password, and my password, hit enter, and I'm in.
Except for ONE problem. I typed in my username wrong! (Zaurus 5600 owners know how much of a bitch it is to type numbers with the damn Fn key.) But I still got in!!! I reconnected, typed in a bogus user/pass, and still had zero issues getting in.
At first I didn't realize what was going on (being that I was late for class, and rushing like crazy). But then it dawned on me, that this was a fake AP setup to steal real verizon user-names and passwords. Pretty slick if you ask me.
Yeah yeah, not too related to the topic at hand, but other verizon customers may want to know
Sunny Dubey
I don't know about you guys .. but those GNAA morons must be up do something
...)
So far I have like 420+ posts under my threshold (+1). This is in a matter of minutes of this story being posted too
Being that slashdot prevents people from posting too fast, this must have been a distributed effort.
I wish this GNAA-trolls losers would grow up and go away (don't we all
Sunny Dubey
who thinks Shakespeare is over-rated, and over-valorized ?
This could have easily been done with any other author/book/etc. Lord of the Flies IMO would have been more fitting
Sunny Dubey
What about a *nix Geek and a med-school gal ?
Sunny Dubey
Poor Mandrake, seems like every time they go gold on a release one of the major components gets a major upgrade :)
Not true:
First, Mandrake 10.0 was NOT the final release, it was the community release. The final release of Mandrake 10.0 (due soonish) will have all the fixes and whatever else is desired.
Secondly (don't quote me on this), but I believe many of Mandrake's KDE 3.2 packages have the various patches needed to make it a better desktop all around.
Sunny Dubey
I'm not too sure why they selected Xandros or Lindows over Mandrake for such a review.
Unlike either of the two, Mandrake is composed of 100% FLOSS, is freely available, and it simply "kicks ass".
In fact, I'm some what insulted they chose lindows at all. Lindows is a rather craptacular distro, with super annoying marketing practises, and a high yearly fee for people to get additional software.
Sunny Dubey
Why do I say this ?
.... (check out #ati on Freenode for more )
Because this story is pretty much misinformed. Support for XFree86 4.3.0 is nothing new at all. It has been for quite sometime.
Additionally the previous article about ATI's support for linux/XFree86 has also been totally wrong as well.
And apparently there is a port of the driver to FreeBSD going under way
Sunny Dubey
Macsoft ? I thought the same guy (Ryan C. Gordon) who was doing the linux port was also doing the OS-X port ? Sunny Dubey
Debian-style package management for Mandrake. I like apt-get, especially in conjunction with the kpackage front end. I also like Mandrake's installer {though I can put up with Debian's command line interface}.
This is like the more ignorant statement one can make.
First Mandrake has URPMI, which works just like apt-get. Secondly Mandrake has RpmDrake, which is a *PURE* GUI front end for URPMI.
Sunny Dubey
I don't know about you guys, but last time I checked not all email clients supported all the AUTH protocols out there.
I know that Kmail does a pretty good job of supporting most of them (PLAIN, LOGIN, GASSPI, KRB5, etc)
Sunny Dubey
If you're going to make such a vague statement of: the thing still looks way too kluttered for the average Joe.
Please give us an *EXAMPLE* of what it is that sucks. Blanket terms like the above do Nothing to help, nor are they in any way informative.
Sunny Dubey