cloud 9 blog

we are running keepass to store our password for servers, weblogins and anything that has a password. now a while ago we started using keepass version 1. it was light and linux had version 1 in the repositories of the distros. then we decided to move over to version 2 as it had way more [...]

my blogging as of late has been meh. sorry for the lack of exciting posts as i am working on 2 exciting projects right now. i’m trying to get the 2 projects up and running soonish, while doing my day job AND trying to keep my blog always filled with interesting content, but alas i [...]

so the past month has been pretty much a roller coaster ride for me and another big moment in my life. last month i was unexpectedly let go from my position and it came as a big shock but that’s life, throws you those odd curve balls that you just have to take in the [...]

sorry i have not blogged at all in the last 2 day but i was swamped with a deadline i had to make for today. i was in the process of a total makeover for Chisani Creations because jquery broke on the other design and it was about time i made Chisani on a more [...]

i had to do some work from home tonight so i ssh’d into my desktop computer at work, from my home firewall with in another screen session, started up another  screen session on my work desktop machine ; then i forgot my shortcut keys for my firewall and my work desktop machine for screen is [...]

so you have a user who by accident deleted their emails and you have no backups. oh dear you say? well not if you are the mail administrator. i’m running postfix with mailscanner. every mail that passes through gets archived, except high scoring spam ofcourse. the problem that i had was that i set the [...]

I had a client ask me a while ago if i can block all email coming in for his domain but allow certain domains/emails to be able to send to him. I managed to find an arcticle on it thanks to Winston! Add this line to /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_restriction_classes = domain_class domain_class = check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/access_domain_class reject [...]

so it’s my last friday at my current job. busy handing over stuff and explaining things to the new guy here. felling quite sad when i am removing my usernames from the servers and disabling access to stuff been here almost 4 years and you get so used to doing stuff and logging onto certain [...]

after 4 years at my current employer, i decided that it’s time to move to a greener patch. it came as a very big surprise to them and everyone, but it is something i needed to do and i know i will enjoy the new opportunity! i’ll be commuting to the CBD now which is [...]

i have not blogged in a while for the reason, too damn lazy i used to be so good at updating my blog but either i’m too busy during the day or when i do actually want to blog i have nothing to blog about. i need that to change and i guess the only [...]