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Alan Hargreaves’ Weblog An excellent blog that has boatloads of useful info relating to Solaris and Sun kit. A reccomended read, noice because of the Aussie slant too! M

Ubuntu Blog ? libdvdcss2 and w32codecs for Ubuntu Useful links to codecs and descrablers prepackaged for the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

XNmap : A Mac OS X Network Auditing Tool A nice front end to nmap for OS X. Excellent for the lazy, the novice or those who appreciate aesthetics. M

Hamachi : Stay Connected Instant lan over the internet. Create your own VPN like network to restrict (and allow the use of lan games) over the intenet with hamachi. I need to look at this product myself oneday, ergo its entry into the hallowed halls of bugga.net

The file on the wordpress download site latest.tar.gz was actually the old version. If you grab the zip file it will actually be the new version as advertised. This will likely be remedied soon, but if it is confusing you as to why this is happening, it is probably related to that. M

It *always* takes me a reasonable amount of time to find these again. I like to have the both the Camino G4 optimised/optimized build and one based off the official trunk (optimised also) on my machine at the same time. You can never have too many browsers ;). Anyways the “Firefox” can be found here […]

Setting up postfix was a little difficult as I am not familiar with the config file, but I got it going with the following options: #delay_warning_time = 4h mydomain = obvious myhostname = obvious alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = domainname_for_outgoing_mail mydestination = domains_you_accept_mail_for relayhost = if_you_need_to_relay_via_your_ISPs_mail_host:port mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/24 (aka, what […]

To upgrade all currently installed ports installed using darwinports on OS X the command you need to use is port upgrade -a I would run this after updating the ports tree / system itself, this is performed with port -d selfupdate

If you want nicer looking fonts on ubuntu and have most of the repositories installed may I suggest that you run sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts which will install the Microsoft Core fonts and make many things (like webpages) better than the defalt fonts installed.