Archive for November, 2009

Qmail and Wildcard Subdomains

We were working on a new email solution at work and it required wildcard subdomains to both be passed to the mailserver (via the MX) and then Qmail on the server accept them.

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Secret Santa Script

**Edited to include an emailing section, although is a little messy.**
**Tidied and updated again as it’s getting quite a few reads.**

We’re doing a secret father christmas santa in our office and because I was bored in the spirit of things I thought I’d knock together a bit of Perl to take the pain out of assigning who is buying for who.

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Why the iPhone worms are a load of rubbish

I’ve been keeping track of some of the online and media coverage regarding the recent iPhone ‘worms’ and it’s mainly a pile of crap.

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iWeb odd  characters

On Friday I discovered something odd about Apple’s iWeb. A customer was seeing that a site she’d uploaded was full of odd ‘Â’ characters.

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Why I'm considering Apple Exclusivity

Two words, function and style.

Since I’ve had this Macbook Pro I’ve been increasingly pining for it when using PCs at work or my other machines at home.

Apple aren’t perfect, but they’re definitely doing something right.

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Regaining Root Using Grub

Ever needed access to a linux machine that you have physical access to but you’ve long since forgotten the root password?

Grub is your friend…

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