July 2010

Moving from SquareSpace to WordPress

July 27, 2010

On July 20th, I moved my personal blog site, robpickering.com from SquareSpace to WordPress. This article is about why I did it and then how I performed the task, maintaining all of my posts, post dates, migrating authors, and most importantly, keeping all of my user comments.

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Track Spammers using Gmail

July 20, 2010

I hate spam. I’m sure you hate spam. I’ve spent a significant amount of my personal time working on solutions to combat spam. I’m fortunate, in that I run my own mail server, and can therefore deploy a variety of spam fighting techniques. My current mail server is running: SpamAssassin amavisd-new Greylisting Postfix UCE Rules [...]

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Inexpensive eBooks from O’Reilly Media

July 19, 2010

I love eBooks. I’m not actually sure the last time I purchased a physical, paper book. If I have recently purchased one, then it was a Computer Reference book of some type. Most likely it was a Cisco Press, O’Reilly “animal” book, or any one of a number of technical books and programming manuals. Over [...]

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Create a Full Backup Image of your Amazon EC2 Instance

July 18, 2010

I’m doing this backwards. I’m currently writing another article about Amazon EC2 and getting started by moving your existing hosting service to EC2. However, I recently realized how much time and effort I had devoted to my EC2 Instance and getting things installed, configured, and running the way I want them. Then I stumbled upon [...]

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Goodbye Geek Brief TV…

July 17, 2010

Saturday Mornings I get up early, my wife Deb does not. This is time for me to relax and catch up on my “me” time by drinking some coffee and watching my video podcasts. There are several video podcasts that I download and watch on my AppleTV, among them: TedTalks, Hak5, Tekzilla, Scam School, and [...]

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