Various notes and How-I-Did-Its
relating
to computer systems administration
Robin Whittle 24 September 2013
Back to the main First Principles page for all
sorts
of things.
The web-mail directory, which include
some
systems-admin stuff:
- A list of web-mail systems.
- How I installed with
CentOS 5.1
- Postfix MTA (a secure, simpler replacement
for sendmail)
- Courier Maildrop - for delivering to Maildir
mailboxes and for
mail
filtering.
- Courier IMAP.
Archiving Yahoo Groups
How I grabbed messages, attachements, files and photos from two Yahoo
Groups, in September 2013, just before my account was Neoized and this
became (as far as I know) impossible.
DIY-patchbay/
How I made a compact audio patch
bay from a solderless breadboard.
HTML-email/ - The problems I
perceive with HTML email and why I believe that
all email
clients should default to sending plain text.
- Silent-Hard-Drive/
- My aluminium case to keep hard drives really cool and
quiet. Also
some notes on CPU and power supply fans and on the beautiful Panasonic
Scirocco centrifugal blowers.
- TIFF-to-PDF/
- Using
open-source Ghostscript to convert one or more TIFF files
into a single or multi-page PDF file.
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