Posts Tagged ‘open source software’
18
Nov
Posted by Douglas in Internet, Open Source Software, Software. Tagged: blog, gpl, open source software, website, wordpress. Leave a Comment
This is an excellent video introduction to the concepts of WordPress. Pay close attention to the open source principles and references that Matt makes. Those same ideas drive everything I do at work and online.
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28
Sep
Posted by Douglas in Linux, Open Source Software, Software. Tagged: libre, libreoffice, Linux, mageia, mandriva, open source software, openoffice.org. Leave a Comment
Two of my favorite Linux projects are forking! Mandriva -> Mageia Mandriva is becoming Mageia. My first successful foray into the world of open source software (way back in 2002!) was made using Mandriva (called Mandrake way back then) as the operating system. At that time I was running the current version (Mandrake 9.2). I [...]
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30
Jul
Posted by Douglas in Linux, Open Source Software. Tagged: email, Linux, open source software, postfix, rate limiting. Leave a Comment
Since I had to figure out how to limit outbound traffic by domain today I thought I would post the procedure for everyone to enjoy. Listed below are the configuration changes that I made to our main postfix gateway server. Add the following lines to /etc/postfix/master.cf. You could also copy the smtp line and rename [...]
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29
Jul
Posted by Douglas in Linux, Open Source Software. Tagged: mailman, open source software, permissions, Security. Leave a Comment
I have been spending a good deal of time in our mailing list server archives trying to run down several permissions related problems. After doing a great deal of searching online I realized that there was no place online that listed the comprehensive required permissions for the /var/lib/mailman/archives and /var/lib/mailman/lists folders. I spent a few [...]
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