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I previously wrote about how to block domains named in the ISPA Spam Hall of Shame using DNSBL at SMTP time, these domains have now resorted to using 3rd party senders to try and get their Junk through. Because they are using 3rd party senders the envelope from address is no longer the one that is listed on the hall of shame. In this post i will describe how you can catch the mail that has slipped through your SMTP DNSBL checks.

Canonical announced at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.10, that they plan to stay with the good ol' EXT4 filesystem for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) distribution.

mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Squeeze server.

With GNOME Shell Extensions Updater, you can update all the extensions installed from extensions.gnome.org with a single click. This extension checks for updated extensions every 5 days and displays a notification in the GNOME Shell Message Tray with all the available updates:

BCache for the Linux kernel is still being worked on and is now up to its thirteenth revision prior to being merged into the mainline Linux kernel. BCache provides write-through and write-back caching as a new block device...

Configure SNMP Version 3 to securely access your CentOS server using encryption. This article shows how to quickly set up SNMP versions 1,2 and 3 and then will show you have to make it secure.

My jet lag is gone, I've finally come back to ground, and at last I can start to sort out my experiences at the 10th annual Linux Audio Conference, held this year at CCRMA, the Center For Computer Research In Music And Acoustics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California USA. It was the first time the event had been held in the States, and the organizers obviously intended to make a good impression. I'll cut to the spoiler right now to let you know that they succeeded, with honors.

Aaron Seigo, the founder of KDE powered Vivaldi tablet, has announced that they have doubled the internal storage of Vivaldi to 8GB, earlier the RAM was doubled to 1GB. So, all this delay is turning out to be good for the customers.

The way we travel has evolved a lot over the years. In the early days, people used to walk around with giant folded maps, asking for directions to random strangers. Not that anything is wrong with that, it was just that those methods weren't as great as the ones we have now. For example, not only is using GPS devices more convenient than carrying maps and guides, it’s also much more time saving. These days, all the things you need for your journey are packed neatly into your tiny smartphone, thus fitting a whole bag full of accessories right in your pocket. Furthermore, there are a variety of applications that help us take care of the smallest of hassles we encounter in our voyage. Today, we’ll take a look at five handy apps that makes an Android smartphone or tablet a perfect companion for travelers.

While other big publishers, such as Blizzard and Ubisoft, ignore Linux as a gaming platform, Electronic Arts pushes its first Linux games into Ubuntu Software Center.

Robert Shingledecker announced earlier today, May 10th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.2 Linux operating system, including the Tiny Core Plus edition.

There's no denying the incendiary nature of the topic of desktop Linux, which tends to gets rehashed in heated detail every so often both on these pages and beyond. What some may not remember, however, is that there's another recurring Linux subject that can be equally controversial. It hasn't appeared in some time, but apparently some slow fires have been burning all along, because they just flared up anew.

Last year plans began to surface for Ubuntu TV -- a version of the popular Linux distribution intended to be deployed by television manufacturers -- and during the Ubuntu Developer Summit this week there was much talk about the Ubuntu TV plans...

iOS devices might be seen as toys in some IT circles, but a new tool from OpenText that lets you run Unix applications might change that perception

Here at Sauce Labs, we recently celebrated the completion of a significant project to improve our service uptime and reliability, as we transitioned the last of our CouchDB databases to MySQL. We’d outgrown CouchDB, to the point that a majority of our unplanned downtime was due to CouchDB issues, so wrapping up this migration was an important milestone for us.

Icedove's recent history in the Debian Mozilla APT archive has been spotty. You can rely on the archive for either the latest stable Iceweasel (aka Firefox) or a development version. But Icedove has been in and out. However, as of today (OK ... as of March 31 through April 4, 2012, to be exact) Icedove, iceowl-extension, calendar-google-provider and calendar-timezones are all at 10.0.3.

xplanetFX is a Cool apps thats allow to create desktop backgrounds with high quality, real-time renderings of planet earth in ubuntu 12.04. xplanetFX comes with huge templates and many settings to choose from to create realtime earth’s patterns and handy GTK user interface which makes things a whole lot simpler.

XFCE 4.10 was released about two weeks ago, too late to be included in Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. But you can install the latest XFCE 4.10 in Xubuntu 12.04 using a PPA.

Few days ago was released Grub Customizer 2.5.5, the new release comes with an improved kde menu compatibility, translation updates, preserving quote charachter, replaced update-grub by grub-mkconfig + output_fileGrub.

Citrix XenServer doesn't offer a template out of the box for Slackware. This article will show you how to install the current Slackware 13.37 on XenServer assuming you have access to the XenCenter software.