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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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Automatically add PDF Files to iBooks / iTunes via Dropbox

June 24, 2010

If you’ve just recently upgraded to iOS 4 (aka iPhone OS 4), then you are eligible to download iBooks version 1.1. Why is iBooks version 1.1 so exciting? Because it provides support for PDF files, natively, on the iPad and the iPhone. Previous to iBooks 1.1, I was using GoodReader as my primary application for [...]

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PXE Boot your Parallels VM

March 22, 2010

The Problem If you’re in a corporate environment you probably have Windows OS servers. Those servers probably use a protocol to boot machines without an OS called PXE (Preboot Execution Environment). Here at the office, this is how we load the Windows OS on all of our desktops / laptops. However, if you use Parallels [...]

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Love is in the Air – 2010

February 9, 2010

The Love is in the Air World Event is now live on all servers. This year’s version of the World Event has undergone major changes and, as such, most of the guides available on the Internet are now outdated and incorrect (except of course WoW.com’s, they rock). To start you off on the right foot, [...]

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Enchanting Heirloom Items

January 29, 2010

Heirloom items are one of the best things that have happened for leveling in World of Warcraft.  The other is Refer-a-Friend (I’ll probably do a different post on RaF in the future).  Once you’ve amassed some Heirloom items on your leveling characters, don’t forget to enchant them.  If you’re an Enchanter, then spending some time [...]

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