June 2007

After spending about 8 hours debugging a VOIP connection problem, I finally decided that the problem was in my wireless router/gateway/firewall, a WRT54G running DD-WRT.… Read More »Ditching Linux

You can sign a petition here asking the national representatives to ISO to not approve Microsoft’s OpenOfficeXML (nothing to do with OpenOffice, of course –… Read More »Sign Petition Against OOXML

I keep getting hounded by folks insisting that Sun has backed away from its GPL3 aspirations, and/or alternately that Sun plans to sneak a bunch… Read More »Sun Re-commits to GPL3 and Patent Indemnity

The old Yellow Box for Windows is alive again – in Safari for Windows. I don’t know if Apple seriously expects to challenge the browser… Read More »YellowBox for Windows is Back

If you’re sending mail to a host that has strict HELO checking turned on (30-40% spam reduction currently) and your server is behind a firewall,… Read More »Configuring HELO string for Sendmail

I encountered this error: 2007/06/11-01:33:22 sqlgrey (type Net::Server::Multiplex) starting! pid(2063) Binding to TCP port 2501 on host localhost 2007/06/11-01:33:22 Can’t connect to TCP port 2501… Read More »sqlgrey: Can’t connect to TCP port

I banged my head against this one for a couple hours: Jun 10 18:40:38 myhost postfix/tlsmgr[17113]: fatal: tls_prng_exch_open: cannot open PRNG exchange file /var/lib/postfix/tls/prng_exch: Permission… Read More »Postfix vs. SELinux

If you want to test the speed of your Internet connection, you just load up the SpeakEasy SpeedTest. But what if you want to test… Read More »Your Network – Speed Testing Made easy

A few days ago I wrote Apple to Spank Palm Again where I speculated that Palm would do better than Apple in the cell phone… Read More »Apple to Buy Palm?

WWDC prediction – hey, all the kids are doing it. Solaris, Open Solaris. Under Mac OS X. Briefly: xnu/mach is really slow. Linux blows away… Read More »Mac OS X: Solaris Inside