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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 8: PTR and SPF records
The easiest way to increase your odds of not getting rejected as a spammer when talking to other MTAs.
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 7: Encryption
Encrypting MTA-to-MTA encryptions for private and secure relay of email
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Customizing Midnight Commander
Quick-quitting, left-right-proportions and skinning
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Renaming music files with beets – and avoiding troublesome characters
Avoiding troublesome characters? Story of my life, mate
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Docker makes debugging a darn sight easier
Changing contexts with the push of a button facilitates quick testing
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Using Rsync on Android: Getting Syncopoli talking to the rsync daemon
Transferring files from your linux host to your phone using good ol’ rsync
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Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly – Part 3: LMTP
Assigning Dovecot the task of local mail delivery using LMTP
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 6: Relay authenticating with SASL
Piggybacking off of Dovecot to provide authentication services for Postfix.
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Powerline secrets
You know that XKCD comic where the protagonist googles a tech question and the only matching result is from a long dead thread or even forum that details…
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StackExchange Answers: Shells
Sometimes a Stackoverflow answer is so good that it helps me understand something I had kind of given up on. The distinctions of login and interactive shells are…
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How to force Steam UI doubling on linux
In 2018 Steam on linux got the ability to autodetect HiDPI screens and resize the UI accordingly. I would guess this kicks in on 4k resolutions. I’m guessing…
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Customize your keyboard layout (and have it work under Wayland)
Customizing keyboard layout is a bit of a jungle. What works when you’re on the console may not work when you’re running X which again may not work…
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Proxy-set-header: Forwarding HTTP headers from Nginx to a WordPress container
I detailed in a recent post how I got a working WordPress container setup, complete with database and PHP engine. I saved the bit about how to redirect…
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My life as an IP hobo and the promise of Dynamic DNS
When your servers don’t respond / who you gonna call? Well, maybe not call but look. And I’m talking about my server residing on my HTPC not yours.…
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Moving site: Using MySQL to search-and-replace WordPress domain name
It seems that the recommended way to change the references to the domain name in MySQL on a WordPress install is to take the whole thing offline and…
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