February 2009

Success of policyd-weight and RBL

Submitted by DerGrobe on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 15:18

As I already told I'm using policyd-weight for SPAM protection purposes. Since I'm always curious how it behaves I use the mailgraph to get some statistics from my logs.

If you look on the number of past week's sent and received mails is approx. 0.13 mail/minute.

Sent/received mails

New release of Zero RRD Framwork

Submitted by DerGrobe on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 21:02

The new release of the Zero RRD Framework is out. You can either update via SVN or download the tar.gz of version 0.9.2.1.

We mainly fixed some installation annoyances and hopa updated the VMware and VirtualBox images. Furthermore we improved the date selection of the start and end date which accepts either rrdtool compatible of human readable dates now. Even a nice looking JS calendar for date selection is available.

Subversive in Eclipse Ganymede

Submitted by DerGrobe on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 22:58

I updated my pretty old Eclipse Europa installation to Ganymede today. OK, the restart you have to do quite often were really annoying, but besides that everything worked quite well.

Über ausgefallene Hobbys und außergewöhnliche Menschen

Submitted by DerGrobe on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 12:04

Es gibt ja eine ganze Reihe von ungewöhnlichen Hobbys und viele davon lassen uns nur Schmunzeln, milde Lächeln oder einfach nur den Kopf schütteln. Dann gibt es aber wieder Hobbys die uns erstaunen und ganz ehrfürchtig werden lassen.

eMail notifications for reading and delivery

Submitted by DerGrobe on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 15:31

Inspired by Bob's article on email reading notifications, I wanted to check out the details about all these notifications: reading, delivery and whatsoever.

But first of all, I do know that you can't rely on any notifications for various reasons and that's it's therefore questionable if you should use them or not. But still, it's interesting from a technical point of view.

Securely setup subversion (SVN) with Apache

Submitted by DerGrobe on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 14:57

There are a lot of explanations out explaining how to setup Subversion and Apache to work smoothly together. Since I'm a bit paranoid I'd like to give one the needed rights to the Apache user.

But let's start at the beginning and setup the environment before we care about the proper rights.

Squid proxy and user authentication

Submitted by DerGrobe on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 13:14

There are cases where you want to control the access to your proxy server. This could be via IP-restrictions and/or authentication via user name and password.

I recently configured my Squid to support user authentication. There are different options for authorization via authorization helpers:

  • LDAP: Authenticates against LDAP databases.
  • MSNT: Microsoft NT domain authentication.
  • NCSA: Authenticates against the same type of password file as many NCSA-compliant web servers (e.g. Apache htpasswd)

Find coordinates on Google maps

Submitted by DerGrobe on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 09:38

There's one thing I really miss on the web front-end of Google maps: show that coordinates of location you found.

Luckily Bernard Vatant filled this gap with the page to
find latitude and longitude with Google Maps using the Google Maps API.

Thanks for the helpful piece of work.