Development

Development

Filtering spam with Postfix

If you are responsible for maintaining an internet-connected mail-server, then you have, no doubt, come to hate spam and the waste of resources which comes with it. When I first decided to lock down m ...

by Kirk Strauser – 3/7/2005

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The history and future of SMTP

SMTP is an abbreviation for “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”, and is the standard internet protocol for sending email from one system to another. Although the word “simple” belies the inherent complexi ...

by Kirk Strauser – 3/4/2005

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We can all finally install

I’ve seen a lot of new users—and even kids—using Linux comfortably. And everything goes fine—until they decide to install new applications. You see, in Mac people can install an application by simply ...

by Tony Mobily – 2/15/2005

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Every engineer’s checklist for justifying free software

In a few years viewing source code within the major components of software infrastructure will probably be a routine way of doing business. In the meantime it seems that the only reason managers want ...

by Malcolm Spence – 2/7/2005

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XML: the answer to everything?

This article weighs the pros and cons of XML for some applications (publishing), and explores why it is the best possible solution for many programming and publishing needs. Everywhere you turn these ...

by Kay Ethier – 1/23/2005

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A screen shot tour of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

All major Linux distributions include a lot of free software applicationsand libraries, which turn Linux into a powerful desktop or server. Red Hat in particular has done a great job in including nume ...

by Saqib Ali – 9/15/2004