Qmail on Fedora 9.

September 15, 2008

Qmail is said to be the second most popular MTA on the net and /life with qmail / netqmail is the most popular way of installing it. At the heart of this approach is using ucspi and daemontools rather...

Fedora Slow DNS Lookups

September 13, 2008

Now that kinks have been ironed out of my broadband connection, I am beginning to notice that DNS lookups are running very very slowly. Firefox for example seems to take 3-4 seconds to look up any name. Even one that...

FireFox 3 Offline Mode

September 12, 2008

Firefox 3 on Fedora 9 has the annoying habit of starting in offline mode. You ought to be able to make it start in online mode by setting browser.offline to false in about:config - that doesn't work. Then I...

Bell Speed Issue Fixed.

September 10, 2008

Earlier, I reported that Lanka Bell had crawled to a halt. Well, they fixed it. In fact they fixed it quite a few days ago but I didn't get around to blogging about it yet. The cause of the...

Qmail Mail Stuck in the Queue

September 6, 2008

The other day, staff at a company that I occaisionaly act as a consult for, were complaining about not having any mail. You would think that might make anyone happy but unfortunately they weren't. When I checked their mail...

Corrupt CF card

September 4, 2008

Dialog Broadband - The Court Jester.

September 2, 2008

Dialog Telekom, once the #1 teleco in the country has been reduced to a sad state, they are now occupying the role of court jester , making mistakes at every opportunity adapting the wrong technology, hiring idiots to man...

Swapping Ginger for Chilly

September 1, 2008

p>I moved away from Fedora a few weeks ago after becoming increasingly annoyed with it's messy upgrade process. The distro that I chose was Debian. Here in Sri Lanka we have adage that goes like 'giving up ginger to get...

 

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