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Bye bye Postfix, hello Qmail

Posted on vr 21 april 2006 in services • Tagged with cloud, debian

I switched to postfix about a year ago for most of my mail stuff, but have decided to move back to qmail. The Postfix + MySQL combo does work, but I think it is slow and error prone. So back so qmail+vmailmgr it is ;)

Finally getting to the point where …


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Linux on the Scouting Desktop

Posted on ma 17 april 2006 in scouting • Tagged with debian, hardware

I spent the weekend in Harderwijk, as a leader of a Internet related Scouting activity. We were unable to bring too much fancy new hardware, because of insurance issues so I was stuck reclycling a couple of Pentium II systems. As I already got rid of all my Windows CD-ROMs …


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Gotta love those open source guys :-)

Posted on vr 07 april 2006 in open source • Tagged with hardware, debian

When running the ybin -v utility to update the boot menu on my iBook, I got the following output:

ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda6'...
ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda3'...
ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/hda6...
ybin: Installing primary …

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My last switch to Linux

Posted on ma 03 april 2006 in desktop • Tagged with debian

From now on I will only be installing Debian GNU/Linux on computer at home. I've 'switched' for a number of times in the past, but I always thought that there would be something better. When even Mac OS X could not satisfy me, there was only one option left …


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Switch update

Posted on ma 03 april 2006 in desktop • Tagged with debian

This week I was able to remove two things on my 'switching to linux on the desktop' tasklist:

Configure remote control / lirc on media system (Trinity)

I haven't actually used it yet, but keypresses on my remote control are visible within the operating system

Fix wireless driver iBook

I did …


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