http://my.galagzee.com Tech in a Galagzee, Not So Far Away. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:20:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I upgraded few FreeBSD installations to FreeBSD 7.2 over the last couple of days, I took the customary stroll to see how FreeBSD continues to stack up against the Linux distributions.  And once again I determined it does so very well.  I've been a devout FreeBSD user for almost ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/06/22/freebsd-vs-the-world/ For few years now I've used the lightweight C·O·M·O·D·O firewall in conjunction with ESET nod32 AntiVirus. Both are lightweight and effective. Or were. ESET nod32 is still getting better with every consecutive release (the recently released 4.x, for instance, it lighter on system resources than its predecessor). But C·O·M·O·D·O just ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/05/15/end-of-comodo-firewall-onl/ My troubles with Fusemail were caused by automated outbound spam filtering system Fusemail utilizes!  Fusemail filters all outbound email for spam and when their system thinks an email you're sending is spam, it incredibly deactivates your account, automatically! According to their tech support (who finally returned my call 15 hours ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/05/03/fusemail-auto-suspends/ Over last several weeks I've gradually externalized both my own and my employer's mail systems from internal servers to an outsourced service.  My own mail has been running for years on qmail on FreeBSD.  It's worked well, but the age of my own server has become a growing concern, and ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/05/03/fusemail-strike-one/ For several years I've used Schedule Wizard scheduler for Windows Server task scheduling.  For a long time I haven't been totally happy with its stability (or lack of).  During any given year there has generally been a handful of incidents where I notice the tasks haven't been running, and often ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/04/16/dumping-schedule-wizard-for-visualcron/ Last fall I wrote about various (S)FTP(ES) clients, and in that article mentioned that secure authentication with popular open source FTP server pureFTPd did not work with VanDyke Software's SecureFX FTP client as it lacks the option to use unencrypted data channel – a requirement with pureFTPd. VanDyke Software is ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/04/16/ftp-client-update/ I've been working on couple web-projects for last couple of months, doing more intense web-development than for some time (my work takes me sometimes to the system side, even to hardware, and then back again to the application level).  This time I've had the pleasure to work on a design ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/04/06/cross-browser-insanity/ It's interesting how, every now and then, I come across some really obvious improvement to my workflow, even though that "fix" has been sitting – literally – under my nose all along. Here's an example: today I was researching a better way to organize lengthy CSS files in an attempt ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/03/23/workflow-discoveries/ I needed to restore some files from an archive on UNIX, but only the files of a particular date-range were needed.  It took a few moments to find and figure out how I could easily extract files older than a particular date, or files from a particular date-range. This is ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/02/23/unix-shell-find-files-by-a-date-range/ Today I decided to resolve a problem in an Apache virtual container rewrites I'd been having for a while. It appeared that RewriteCond was "leaking".  However, on closer observation (and lots of Googling) it turned out that RewriteCond only applies one RewriteRule that comes immediately after the RewriteCond. I didn't ... http://my.galagzee.com/index.php/2009/02/11/mod_rewrite-one-rewritecond-to-many-rewriterules/