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    • Mar 25, 2011
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    How to reject spam from certain countries (if you must really, really do it)?

    Every now and then, a question like this pops up on some email server management forum:

      I'd like to be able to reject connections from remote IP addresses if they're from certain countries.
    

    The usual reason is either that

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    • Mar 23, 2011
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    How to create stacked area graphs with Gnuplot

    Gnuplot is a really great plotting utility, that can be used either interactively or automatically, from inside scripts of all sorts. However, sometimes it can be quite difficult to use simply because there are lots of documentation, but it is hard to figure out exactly what piece of documentation you should read and where it is.

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    • Mar 23, 2011
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    How to post content to a Wordpress blog from the command line

    Wordpress is a great publishing system, but managing it manually can be a very time consuming process. This is especially true when you want to upload lots of posts, or if you would like to write content in your preferred, full-blown text editor and then have it “magically” appear online.

    Wordpress takes care of these needs

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    • Mar 23, 2011
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    Review, Linux E-Mail,set up, maintain, and secure a small office e-mail server

    (this is a review that i originally posted somewhere on Slashdot, IIRC)

    Linux E-mail, Second Edition is a book written for Packt Publishing by I. Haycox, A. McDonald, M. Back, R. Hildebrandt, P.B.Koetter, D. Rusenko and C. Taylor. Linux E-mail contains

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    • Mar 12, 2011
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    How to create lists of WordPress posts from the command line

    WordPress is a great online publishing system. One of its strengths, as far as I am concerned, is the administration interface, which I find flexible, efficient and easy to use. However, sometimes even that interface isn’t flexible enough.

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    • Mar 3, 2011
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    MCG, the eMail Configuration Generator for procmail and mutt

    Many U*nix users with advanced email needs, a high load of email, and possibly a lot of addresses to keep separated, invariably come to procmail and to Mutt (but the MCG concept can be easily adapted to other MUAs: read on).

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    • Mar 1, 2011
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    Flash/nVidia horrors, Gnome/KDE fights in my Fedora 14

    Flash/nVidia horrors, Gnome/KDE fights in my Fedora 14 /img/flash_ad_spilling_from_firefox_to_kate.jpg
    Flash/nVidia horrors, Gnome/KDE fights in my Fedora 14 /img/flash_ad_spilling_from_firefox_to_kate.jpg

    . Just a few days after I had brought back my Fedora computer to life, the last updates in kernel, nVidia driver from RPMfusion and what not did to my Fedora 14 box (the same that was damn slow three weeks ago) what you see in these pictures,

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    • Mar 1, 2011
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    Update on, Why is my Linux so damn slow?

    About three weeks ago I became so fed up with the disgusting performances of my Fedora computer to make a public Help request: why is my Linux so damn slow?. I got plenty of help (90 comments to that post while I’m writing this one) and useful suggestions. Later this week I will reformat all those suggestions in a separate post aimed to complete Linux newbies, to help them to find get support faster when they find themselves in a similar situation.

    This page, instead, is a short status report,

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    • Feb 12, 2011
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    Help request, why is my Linux so damn slow?

    I’ve discovered Linux in 1995 and I have been using it as my only home/work operating system since then. I still love it and want to continue to use and promote it, but in the last 2⁄3 weeks it’s become almost impossible. In this page I explain why, hoping to get and collect useful suggestions.

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    • Nov 26, 2010
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    Create your Web database applications with DaDaBIK

    Create your Web database applications with DaDaBIK /img/01_dadabik_admin2.png

    Dadabik is Free Software that you can use (writing little or no code by hand!) to create PHP-based Web applications that even users with little previous experience can use to manage several types of (already existing) relational databases.

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