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Archive for October, 2004

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19 Oct

Snapshots and LVM

I’ve been looking for some instructions on how to do snapshots on my machine. I did some research a while ago, and found several partial explanations, some of them contradictory. http://arstechnica.com/columns/linux/linux-20041013.ars goes through the whole process. He’s using XFS as the file system, so there is an extra step to freeze it. I suppose with [...]

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17 Oct

SpamAssassin 3.0.0 + SURBL rock!

A friend suggested I try out the SURBL, a DNS based blacklist of URLs that appear in spam messages. The theory is that most spam is trying to pitch something via a website, so if you keep track of the websites, you’ll have a good idea if the message is spam by checking the urls [...]

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