Chucks Blog

Found this while stopping for lunch today. I think it speaks for itself.

I just about finished moving everything over to my server located on a VPSLink Link-3 from its previous host, a 1GHZ P-III with 512mb’s of RAM running off my DSL connection. I also opted to configure all my services manually instead of using DTC to manage it all, primarily to save on RAM.
I think I’ve [...]

Quick little how-to for setting up a simple postfix mail server to send outgoing emails on a Debian etch server. Really useful to have running on web server to provide for services like Wordpress and SMF.
First we start off with a fairly blank VM. We’ll assume the domain your server is running on is
example.com
You want [...]

Back about a month ago I signed up for a VPS plan from WowVPS; it was a pretty simple plan that had the following specs:
12GB disk space
200GB transfer
192MB RAM
3 IP Addresses
All for 10.95$ USD. Not too shabby for its price, though there was a sale at the time. (And still is as of the writing [...]

Alright, I’ve decided to around the middle of every month to post quickly on the current email spam trends I am noticing, so that I can compare them and figure out the best way to filter them.
So this months trend is: Invoices & Sales receipts pointing to wonderful “Canadian” pharmacy domains
An excerpt from one of [...]

Ok, just because I’m getting hit by quite a few Google searchs for this I’ve decided to just do a quick post on what this error message means:
554 service unavailable blocked using zen.spamhaus.org

Is just a fancy way of a server saying they have blocked you from sending email to them due to a listing in [...]

I just recently reinstalled Ubuntu on my labtop, an Inspiron 1521, and noticed quite quickly that multiple monitor support on ATI cards is much better than before. Though I advise against using the proprietary driver since you already get 3D acceleration with the open source one.
The only thing I see that is a big disadvantage [...]

While just doing my regular news searches I found an interesting article on a topic know as “Silent spamming.” 
Basically the way this works is by utilizing features most of us include on our forums and websites, like member website links in a forum and referrer links in unprotected stats folders. The target of these spammers is not people exactly; it’s [...]