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  • fpo.mail.dk

    Nogen der kender nogen der sidder og bestyrer fpo.mail.dk?

    Hvorfor afviser den ret konsekvent emails med:

    SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host fpo.mail.dk [80.160.76.237]: 421 Message rejected

    Og hvordan får man email igennem til den?

  • Slicehost– or why slicehost sucks.

    I recently got a slice at slicehost (A so called virtual server) and moved my various services over there. Mail, web, this blog and so on. I have now tried to request a additional IP, as I need a couple of services running on port 443.

    Apparantly their silly automatic processes includes rebooting *my* virtual server and nuking my changes to files inside *my* virtual server.

    Any places having a virtual private server which are run by *clueful* people without stupid automated processes? I guess it is time to move before my next payment.

    Angry.

  • Moving web and mail and stuff

    Over the last days I have moved my email and web and stuff from a simple web and email hotel to a virtual server managed by me.

    So now I got a nice setup with

    • Exim mailserver, smtp auth for sending
    • Dovecot imap server
    • roundcube webmail
    • apache2 serving my blog and stuff

    But most important for me: I can write my own spam filtering rules serverside and I can easily make sure all passwords are sent encrypted.

    What’s left on my todo, partly because I haven’t figured out how yet is

    • Have exim not show the first recieved line when sending mail. No reason to put the IP of whatever place I am located into the emails
    • Have exim rewrite the Subject: header of spam emails, not add a second Subject header
    • Some kind of public/shared folders in dovecot
    • Have moved my local pop3 kmail filtering rules over to exim filters

    And I also still haven’t moved all my domains, but it is coming soon.

  • stupid mailinglist threads

    Please remember to fix a release critical bug every time you reply in a thread that ends up being somehow stupid.

    …worked on 3 rc bugs so far since I got up this morning.

  • meta-planet

    Disclaimer: Jeg er en af planetmestrene på planet.opensource.dk men skriver her for egen regning

    Jeg læser gerne planet.opensource.dk for at se:

    • Hvad der sker i andre projekter hvor der er danskere involveret
    • Spøjse historier fra opensource-udvikleres hverdag
    • Hvad andre opensource-udviklere|oversættere|grafikere|… laver ellers i deres liv

    Jeg læser ikke planet.opensource.dk for at se:

    • evangelier og propaganda for hvor godt opensource er
    • de samme historier postet fra nyhedssteder og lignende
    • Historier fra tilfældige brugere

    Skal jeg lade disse punkter forsøge at skinne bedre igennem som planetmester? eller er jeg for “skrap” – kommentarer velkomne.

  • Fosdem2008

    First time ever I have been at a conference and attending so few talks. Needed to talk to sooo many people.

    But anyways, it was quite interesting to put some faces of the people I kind of work with. Especially my favourite kde upstream people.

    So many keys to sign, but I guess I am finally thru it. If you are expecting a signature from me and haven’t got one yet, please check your spam filters and/or try poke me. I guess I will keep my paper notes a couple of days before ditching them.

    Beer event was bigger this year, but still too crowded. Fosdem is also quite crowded – so crowded that I missed some talks because of it.

    But anyway, see you next year – probably.

  • digital cameras

    Dear lazyweb

    I have been looking for a small nice digital camera, one that of course takes nice pictures, but besides that have the following technical features:

    • connected with a “generic” usb cable
    • a usb mass storage device for the computer
    • battery charged over the usb cable
    • uses a generic memory card type (eg. sd)

    I want it to be using a generic cable for charging and transfering pictures because I am not that good at not loosing cables and chargers and such so a replacement cable should be very easy to get. And I want it to be a usb mass storage because I want it working with any computer.

    It kind of seems hard to figure out what devices to look at. Most “technical specifications” doesn’t contain information on wether it is a USB A => USB mini B cable or some vendor specific cable, nor do they contain information on wether it is a usb mass storage device or a device requiring mtp/ptp.

    Canon looks like it is doing mtp/ptp over a generic cable – and with a external charger.
    Samsung tells deep inside their manuals that it uses the usb mass storage driver. Samsung uses a vendor specific cable, but is also charged thru this cable.
    Kodak seems to be using a generic cable, a external charger and undefined how the communication with the computer is.
    Olympus seems to be using a vendor specific cable and a external charger. But it is a bit unclear. Seems to be able to do both mtp and usb mass storage
    HP seems to use a generic cable, standard AA batteries and no charger bundled, seems to be configured to use usb mass storage.
    Sony uses memory sticks which are just too expensive.
    Casio seems to use a generic cable, a external charger and is a bit unclear about communication. Could be usb mass storage though.
    Nikon seems to use generic cable, mtp protocol and a external charger

    Argf. What have I missed?

  • libqt3-compat-headers

    libqt3-compat-headers is a debian package containing headers from qt3 to help migrating from qt2 to qt3.
    This is long ago. Qt people laughed at me when I asked about how long ago that would have been.

    Apparantly, this package is still build-depended upon by 66 different debian packages. A big bunch of them are probably just leftovers from the past. The rest is probably a 5 minute job (+build time) pr package.

    For me, it kind of makes the packages look kind of unmaintained.

    grep-dctrl -sPackage -FBuild-Depends libqt3-compat-headers /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources to see the full list.

    I just filed bugs with patches on 3 random of them.

  • Nattens dame

    Fandt lige denne i samlingen af glemte mp3-filer med glemte bands. Synes lige jeg ville dele den.

    Skal vi holde quiz i kommentarene? Hvem er det?

    Hun tar´ sit nattøj på,
    Sætter tiden i stå, og står på bussen over Langebro.
    Hun kysser Amager godnat,
    Medens hun tygger lidt khat,
    Der dulmer smerten fra de høje sko.
    Med lange lår i lækker læder lårkort lægger hun op,
    Og der har altid været penge i en mørkebrun ung kvindekrop.

    Men hvis hun kunne var hun flygtet,
    Væk fra internet close ups,
    Langt bort fra gamle mænd og kvalmen,
    Ved de billige blow jobs.

    Hun har en fast kundekreds,
    Af mænd på over halvtreds,
    Og alt det løse yngre mandekød.
    Og hun har lært at smile pænt og,
    Tænke på hvad hun tjener,
    Når de lægger sig i hendes skød.
    På løgnen om den lykkelige luder lader lusene op,
    Til en prestige-sikker scoring af en mørkebrun ung kvindekrop.

    Men hvis hun kunneâ¦..

    Hun vil gi´ alt hvad hun har for et kedeligt liv,
    For at ku´ elske noget uden først at drikke sig stiv,
    Og når man ved hvad man vil er det temmelig trist,
    At ligge fast under 80 kilo svedig turist.
    Hun har i lang tid vidst hvor pengene ligger,
    Et hurtigt los i skridtet og alfonsen bliver tigger,
    For det er ikke pænt at slå men det´ en anderledes sag,
    Hvis det´ for at få sit liv tilbage.