As you know, I own an Acer TravelMate 800 since quite some time. As I have used it for server stuff during the last month, it was time to start with a new install as there was too much junk on it. Considering the fact, that this notebook is a real old one, it works at impressive speed […]
Tag: linux
Testdriving 2.6.23
Since today I am running the new gentoo-sources patchset, which is using the new 2.6.23 kernel sources. The update was more or less pain free, disregarding some sandbox violations. But those were avoided using FEATURES=”-sandbox -sfperms -usersandbox”. The best thing about the new sources is, that I do not need to patch them with the uvesafb patches as […]
Surprise, surprise
You remember the Btrfs project, the new and really fast filesystem? Rei – a fellow gentoo user tests this filesystem on her computer and discovered a nasty bug causing a kernel panic. She reported to the mailinglist. The bug was already fixed in the Mercury-Repository – so she did some Live-Ebuilds. Well done!
Horde Framework
A long time ago, it must have been last century – I have started setting up a mailserver for me. For being able to access my mail from the office or trade school I used some kind of webmail as someone pointed me to towards the Horde Framework.
Efficiency of my spamfilter
Is my Spamfilter doing a good job here? Does anybody out there got some values to compare? Here are some recent stats of my mailfilter (SpamAssassin with Bayes, more than 800 messages / day) Efficiency : 99.85% False Positives: 0.02% False Negatives: 0.13%
What if an interface starts up?
What happens if you bring up an interface using an init script on gentoo? Do you know? Already figured out how to start services depending on what interface is up/down? The gentoo-way is done in /etc/conf.d/net.