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HOWTO: SpamAssassins sa-learn von IMAP Mailboxen lernen lassen

Seit wohl mehr als zwei Jahren wundere ich mich hin und wieder, weshalb mein SpamAssassin bei der Beurteilung, ob es sich bei einer eintreffenden E-Mail um Spam oder nicht handelt, nicht langsam mal ein wenig cleverer wird. Nutze ich doch schliesslich sa-learn und verfüttere ihm gesammelte Spam-E-Mails, damit deren Signaturen erkannt und zukünftig nicht mehr durchgelassen werden. Irgendwie wurde es aber nie besser. Gefühlt kam immer mehr Spam durch. Aber das Thema war auch nicht so wichtig, dass ich es mit Nachdruck verfolgt hätte. Bis vor ein paar Tagen. Continue reading

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Websites going into maintenance mode soon – major database migration forced

Due to critical hardware failure, I’m forced to shut down and migrate all my websites and those hosted on my server soon. This might happen this afternoon already. Right now, most of the websites are still working properly. Nevertheless, several … Continue reading

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unfake.it: performance increase and temporary twitter failure

Hi there, during the past few days, unfake.it‘s performance increased dramatically. Several scripts and jobs have been moved onto new servers, the database structure and various SQL statements have been enhanced and even SQL SELECT statements have been optimized to … Continue reading

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unfake.it now with facebook integration

Hi there, after several months, unfake.it has become even more important in the Web2.0 community. A few weeks ago, I was talking to some guys and co-workers about programming and such things. I then told about unfake.it and a co-worker … Continue reading

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Highly sophisticated wakeup call using nagios

Hi there! Do you know this problem?! You have to get up at some certain time in the morning, so you set up your alarm clock to give you a friendly “rrrrrrring-rrrrring”. But you simply don’t wake up! Your alarm … Continue reading

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Twitter Tools patch

Hi there! Lots of you may use WordPress as blog system. Lots of you may also use a Twitter account. I guess, most of those people will use the famous Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King (http://alexking.org/) to automatically notify Twitter about … Continue reading

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HOWTO grab and thumbnail websites

Hi there! Because some of you asked, how I realized the grabbing and thumbnailing of whole websites (here’s an example and I wrote about that in this post), this is a brief HOWTO. Imagine, you have a Linux system without … Continue reading

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http://unfake.it/ goes magic!

Hi there! http://unfake.it/ now provides a tiny JavaScript bookmarklet which may be saved in your browser. While surfing on the web, you can click this bookmark and the page you’re currently viewing will automatically be faked/shortened. But the real new … Continue reading

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Guide to LPIC-1 certification

Since I lead a team of highly specialized IT personnel, who are mostly certified LPI level 1, level 2 or even level 3, I decided it was my turn to give it a try. I passed LPI 101 (part one … Continue reading

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