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I post mainly technology tips and tricks, usually in support of my own memory, on Bigsmoke's blog.

Efficient scanning and storing of documents (2007-06-13)
Getting your terminal unstuck (2008-01-13)
Rolling back a failed rdiff-backup session on a full partition (2008-01-13)
Mounting partititions residing inside a disk image (2008-07-09)
Playing Quake3 in Linux with Skype or Teamspeak (2008-07-10)
Setting up a domaincontroller with Samba (2008-07-10)
Creating a bash fork bomb (2008-07-10)
Crane camera shots with just a tripod (2008-07-30)
Configuring a Debian satellite Exim server (2008-08-03)
Disabling SSH shell access for SVN users on a Linux/Unix system (2008-08-04)
PostgreSQL back-end for Ruby on Rails confusion (2008-08-28)
Decoding djvu files on the command line (2008-09-01)
Finding and deleting duplicate files (2008-12-28)
Ultra Cheap dual Eizo monitor setup (2009-01-23)
Clonezilla as disk imager (2009-02-05)
Creating a custom device node for specific hardware with udev (2009-02-06)
Silent change in URLs of Ruby on Rails svn repository (2009-02-19)
Encoding a motion jpg video produced by a canon A430 to xvid (2009-03-31)
Increasing (encrypted) disk image size with dd (2009-04-03)
Adding locales in Ubuntu (2009-06-16)
Correcting Spamassassins stale mirror configuration (2009-06-19)
Really enabling portage compile cache (2009-06-19)
Impossible to fix file collision when upgrading qt 4.3 to 4.5 (2009-06-19)
Fixing “expected NAV packet but none found” error on some downloaded DVD’s (2009-06-19)
Installing grub on RAID1 (2009-06-21)
Xerox 7232 communication failure (2009-06-22)
Setting up Rsync daemon (2009-07-15)
APC CS-500 causes USB disruption (2009-08-09)
Setting paper size in Mozilla products (2009-08-17)
Change in law regarding cell phone contracts (2009-08-21)
Expanded output in MySQL prompt (2009-08-23)
Removing unwanted grey values in scanning white papers (2009-09-20)
Bash quoting (2009-10-18)
Samba rounds filesizes off to whole MB’s (2009-10-20)
Permissions on a samba share (2009-10-20)
Adding a recycle bin to a samba share (2009-11-23)
Making sure virtual machine guests shut down properly on a Debian host (2009-12-09)
Debian network bridge setup for kvm/qemu (2009-12-09)
LDAP search filter for Thunderbird and Zimbra (2009-12-10)
Bash script for sending SMS using Mollie (2009-12-12)
Sending SMS notifications of md device failure (2009-12-12)
Preventing NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts (2009-12-14)
Using Fetchmail to deliver to another SMTP host and user (2009-12-14)
My time compared to UTC (2009-12-16)
Quickly removing and adding bootscripts in Debian (2009-12-21)
Disabling Zimbra’s spam learning (2009-12-21)
Iptables rule to block access to our IMAP server (2009-12-21)
Finding out the UUID of partitions (2009-12-28)
Creating a DRBD device (2009-12-28)
Making Coyote Linux work with KPN ADSL (2009-12-29)
UTP wiring (2009-12-30)
Pasting in Vim (2010-01-03)
My custom Linux environment (2010-01-04)
Convenient iptables rules (2010-01-04)
Changing lost MySQL root password (2010-01-11)
Set proper origin domain for Zimbra server (2010-01-12)
Scanning the entire network for machines with nmap (2010-01-13)
Fixing spamassassin rule in Zimbra (2010-01-17)
Configuring fetchmail to deliver to Zimbra with custom header added (2010-01-17)
Lowering Bayes score for Zimbra’s Spamassassin config (2010-01-18)
Disable Zimbra’s duplicate mail detection (2010-01-18)
Configuring Nagios to check a HTTP host (2010-01-19)
666 posts on tweakers (2010-01-19)
Adding Microsoft docx and similar to Mailscanner whitelist (2010-01-22)
Configuring VPN server and client on Linux (2010-01-25)
Debian volatile: keep fast moving packages working on Debian stable (2010-01-30)
Configuring a static IP address on Debian (2010-01-31)
Xen console (2010-01-31)
Installing Xen with Lenny guest on a Debian machine (2010-01-31)
Installing Windows on Xen (2010-01-31)
Saving and loading iptables rules on Debian (2010-02-03)
Preventing syntax errors with old shell scripts (2010-02-14)
Default e-mail addresses for domains (2010-02-22)
Creating an Unreal Tournament 99 server in Linux (2010-02-27)
Enabling mplayers multithreading for HD video. (2010-02-28)
OpenDNS servers (2010-03-16)
Creating new MySQL database and user (2010-03-16)
Installing Samba from lenny-backports (2010-03-17)
Windows domains: De opgegeven referenties zijn strijdig met de bestaande groep referenties (2010-03-17)
Fixing extremely slow domain logon windows 7 (2010-03-17)
Listing samba users (2010-03-17)
Adding a quick launch in Windows 7 (2010-03-18)
Console commands for Unreal Tournament (2010-03-20)
Migrating user accounts when upgrading from samba 3.2 to 3.3 or 3.4 (2010-03-22)
Configuring Thunderbird to have newest mails at the top by default (2010-03-22)
Show fields in a SSL certificate with openssl (2010-03-23)
MAC address space for Xen (2010-03-24)
Preventing the creation of $RECYCLE.BIN on Samba shares by Windows 7 (2010-03-25)
Adding a virtual network interface on Debian (2010-03-26)
Upgrading Samba from Lenny-backports (2010-03-29)
Disabling Intellipark on the WD15EARS (2010-05-13)
Installing Arch Linux on RAID+LVM (2010-05-13)
Aligning partitions with RAID and LVM on drives with 4 kB sectors (2010-05-13)
Generating a self-signed SSL certificate (2010-05-16)
Scroll in windows under mouse pointer in Windows (2010-05-20)
Customizing displayed headers in Mozilla Thunderbird (2010-05-26)
Configuring a Debian exim server for internet delivery (2010-07-20)
Burning media with wodim (2010-07-22)
Disabling related after current tab open (2010-07-22)
Making a port forwarded machine available from within the LAN (2010-07-23)
Setting a custom greeting for an Asterisk voicemailbox (2010-07-30)
Disabling debug for mod wsgi (2010-08-06)
Setting password for mysql user in .my.cnf (2010-08-11)
Generating key and certificate for courier-imap (2010-09-04)
Making Windows RDP more secure (2010-09-07)
Redirect multiple domains to one (2010-09-07)
Changing an apache virtual host to ssl (2010-09-07)
Preventing IOerror on stdout with modWSGI (2010-09-10)
Configuring thunderbird to put date of original message above quote (2010-09-14)
Enabling authentication and SSL for Postfix on Debian (2010-09-20)
Rewrite rules to redirect to a temporary offline page (2010-09-22)
Working with a postfix mail queue (2010-09-22)
Exim cheatsheet (2010-09-23)
Apache rewrite rule to rewrite to sub dir (2010-09-27)
Show privileges for mysql users (2010-09-30)
Making apache log files world readable (2010-10-01)
Dropping all Linux disk cache (2010-10-02)
Configuring nagios checks over SSH (2010-10-04)
Checking 3ware raid controllers over ssh with nagios (2010-10-04)
Malware in PDFCreator (2010-10-05)
Download flash without download manager (2010-10-05)
Making mysqldump work on a zimbra installation (2010-10-08)
Growing a qcow2 image file (2010-10-08)
Deal Extreme: extreme suck-ass (2010-10-30)
Configuring a Samba share with unix extensions which all users can write to (2010-11-05)
Making a Debian Squeeze machine into a Xen virtual machine host (2010-11-07)
Installing XML catalogs on Archlinux (2010-11-07)
Creating iSCSI target and initiator on Debian (2010-12-03)
Seek time benchmark for linux (2010-12-03)
Xen console name on different kernel versions (2010-12-04)
Enabling quota on a journalled ext3 file system on Debian (2010-12-04)
Find all manually installed packages on a Debian system (2010-12-05)
Getting electronic parts cheaply (2010-12-05)
Some links to read for getting into Atmel processors (2010-12-05)
Zimbra dependancy on ‘file’ (2010-12-05)
Zimbra has no shutdown init script on Debian and Ubuntu (2010-12-05)
Disabling exim port 25 listening when zimbra is installed (2010-12-12)
Making a Compaq Deskpro sff boot without keyboard (2010-12-14)
Setting up pptpd and pptp for a VPN (2010-12-15)
Making a service available on more ports with iptables (2010-12-23)
Allowing apache to set Nagios cmd file (2010-12-28)
Bash parameter parsing (2011-01-05)
Bash script template (2011-01-05)
Finding junction files in Windows 7 and exclude them with DeltaCopy (2011-01-10)
Roos Roos Loon installation and configuration weirdness (2011-01-24)
Configuring a Power DNS superslave server (2011-01-30)
Executing system commands from PHP with SUID executable. (2011-02-02)
Create a remote repository and branch with bzr (2011-02-12)
Adding a disk to a RAID5 array on a 3Ware array with tw_cli (2011-02-17)
Ubuntu 10.10 with kernel 2.6.35-25 shutdown problem as Xen DomU (2011-02-18)
Testing an OpenSSL connection (2011-02-25)
Often used Eagle parts and packages (2011-03-11)
PCB tips (2011-03-13)
Using tcpdump to create files readable by Wireshark (2011-03-16)
Useful extra Nagios commands (2011-03-17)
Getting a Xen hvc0 on a stock Ubuntu (2011-03-18)
Fixing locale message in Ubuntu when logging in or SCPing (2011-03-22)
Installing Munin-node on a Debian or Ubuntu machine (2011-04-06)
Installing a commercial SSL certificate in Zimbra (2011-04-12)
Sending yourself a test virus (2011-04-14)
Getting a better MySQL prompt (2011-04-18)
Tracking Xen domU’s with munin (2011-04-21)
Adding SPF support to Postfix (2011-04-28)
Postfix queue: sender and recipient address (2011-05-04)
Setting up a postfix fallback MX (2011-05-22)
Converting a MySQL database from latin1 to utf8 (2011-08-16)
CUPS printer driver for my HP4050 (2011-08-17)
Fixing a Xen DomU’s grub config (2011-09-02)
Fixing a broken Xen DomU after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.4 (Natty) (2011-09-02)
Setting max memory of a Xen Dom0 (2011-09-07)