Archive for July 2009

Wordpress, Flash Uploader and headaches

I was helping my brother to create his new website based on Wordpress. He has a lot of image stuff to upload and the Flash Uploader simply didnt work. All we got was a simple plain red “HTTP Error”. A lot of google research suggested that we have either wrong directory permissions (impossible, my server, [...]

Detaching from Postfix MailQ

You maybe know this scenario: At some sunny morning some guy using your mailservers decides to send a reaal big mailing via you and has forgotten to be polite and to remove all the recipients who does not exist any more (as in: adress closed) and even less polite: to remove all recipients who want [...]

Good old simple quotas

Recently we ran into some storage issues on our office NAS. We have a Raid5 (Software, MDADM) with 4 Disks (+1 Hot Spare), about 1,2 TB net space and some users decided to store their “non workstuff” there also. Because of my latest studies about ZFS (a post will follow soon) i was very aware [...]