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• An awful lot of files in SVN (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:31:49 +0200

  Derick was always bitching at me when doing releases for the huge amount of time needed to process the Webdav components sub directory. We always supposed, that the Subversion performance issues here resulted from the Webdav test suite, which consists of an awful lot of small test files and some sub-directories. I finally found the time to refactor the tests and the performance improvement is astonishing. [Read full post…]

• Using Gmails spam (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Since I maintain my own server for web, mail and some other services, I do not use my Gmail account much. I originally created the account just by curiosity for their UI and now use it to log into other Google services and occasionally if I need a different account than one of my main ones. What I like about Gmail is, that it seems to have a quite good spam filter. In the past half year about 10 spams got through to my inbox, while more than 900 were filtered into the spam folder (in the past 30 days, if you believe Gmail). [Read full post…]

• Major update for spamdyke on Gentoo howto (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  I recently migrated my server to a new maschine and a new provider. After supporting Kore today with installing spamdyke on his maschine, too, I seized the chance to update my Spam Filtering with Spamdyke in front of Qmail howto on the wiki. The howto describes how to install the most recent version of spamdyke on a Gentoo system, explains the most important configuration options and gives some practical hints for such setups. You can ask Kore, it only takes about 10 minutes to do so ;) and saves you a huge lot of spam. Comments and addtions are very welcome. [Read full post…]

• Revolution OS (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Also quite old I'd like to recommend the video Revolution OS, which I stumbled upon yesterday, to you. The video deals with the evolution of the open source scene and how it started. While integrating some technical and geeky facts I think it is quite good for non-technical people, too, and can possible give them a hint on what we geeks do here on the internet and how they are affected by it themselves. [Read full post…]

• Howto: Spamdyk and Qmail on Gentoo (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  After my server was close to wasting all its CPU time for checking email messages for potential spam using Spamassassin I decided that it was time to investigate. My friend Arne, who helped me a lot with Qmail problems earlier, recommended to install spamdyk, an SMTP spam filter that is placed in front of Qmail and does not require specially patches for the MTA itself. Spamdyk can filter mail by blacklisting, whitelisting, greylisting and using several other options. [Read full post…]

• Making the kernel (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:34:32 +0100

  Since my new baby is not fully working under Gentoo, yet, I'm updating my kernel each time a new version of gentoo-sources occurs in portage. If you are configuring your kernel by hand, you know what that means every time (at least for me it did): [Read full post…]

• My new notebook (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:34:32 +0100

  After 2 years of really satisfied use of the IBM/Lenovo T43p I decided that time has come to upgrade. When the T61p was released by Lenovo some weeks ago I felt that this would be the right for me and so far I did not regret it until now. While I read/heart a lot about Lenovo quality constantly dropping I cannot confirm this. [Read full post…]

• The return to the mess... (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  When I returned from vacation, which already wasn't as relaxing as expected due to priate issues, I directly returned to a huge mess, which you might already have been noticing by the downtime of phpunit.de website. [Read full post…]

• Comfortable PHP editing with VIM -6- (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I recently added 2 new functions to my PHP FTPlugin for VIM, which I wanted to implement for a longer time and recently needed quite often: [Read full post…]

• Back to Windows... (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Today I needed to start up my VMWare to test some PHP stuff on a Windows XP installation. I was quite curious, how I would perform after more than 4 years completly without Windows. Here are my experiences... [Read full post…]

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