TMDA on Textdrive HOWTO.

We have the smartest people hosting with us – here’s a writeup that shows the incredible level of expertise and dedication of our TextDrive partners. [TextDrive Support Forum / TMDA on Textdrive HOWTO.][1] tmda is a whitelisting anti-spam strategy; only mail that is on a whitelist will get through, rather than the blacklisting strategy used by spamassassin et al. The idea is that one generates a baseline whitelist of people that one is in email contact with (easily done with a script that comes with tmda) and then anyone not on that whitelist will receive a challenge from the tmda subsystem.

Quickly moving a user’s windows profile to new hardware

Ever have someone get new hardware, run your setup, then spend an inordinate amount of time copying their windows profile to the new machine, piece by piece? Here’s how to do it quickly and cleanly, with a minimum amount of effort (the goal of every sysadmin…)

cat a binary and screw up your terminal?

via [unixtips.org][1] When your term can’t display the correct char after you cat a binary file try the following command to reset it: echo CTRL-V ESC c [1]: http://www.unixtips.org/index.php3?catList=1

a preponderance of evidence | What Willis Wuz’ Talkin’ ‘Bout

[a preponderance of evidence | What Willis Wuz’ Talkin’ ‘Bout][1] [1]: http://jluster.org/

gpg key submission

http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ When in doubt, go to the source of all wisdom: MIT. I’ve had issues submitting keys once they’re created, and the MIT server seems to just always work. That’s the reason I posted this – you need a reliable server? Go visit MIT. Oh, and you could also try http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/

Stu Nicholls | Cutting Edge CSS | Doing it with Style

[Stu Nicholls | Cutting Edge CSS | Doing it with Style][1] [1]: http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/index.html

Check this one out…

[La Chose Interactive][1] [1]: http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/

auxpropfunc error -1

After searching through my archives, I finally found this message from Joel Rennich of [afp548.com][1] fame.

Since Googling for that error found pretty much nothing else on the net, I thought I’d throw it here so that someone else wondering about all the

auxpropfunc error -1

entries in your syslog and console logs were could have a clear, consise answer to the issue.

AD and Mac OS X – one big happy family

So I’m rebuilding my test lab in preparation for our rollout of Mac OS X 10.3.4 and the synchronized moving of authentication from 2 sources (Active Directory and Open Directory) to one (Active Directory). I thought my fellow co-workers would like some notes (as well as you, gentle reader) on how to accomplish the following

PGP and GPG in Mail.app

http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html