A Day in the Life of #Apache: The History of mod_imap -- In this latest installment in the series based on
his conversations on the IRC channel #apache, Rich Bowen takes you on a trip
through the history of mod_imap, and why some modules hang around long after they're no longer in use. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook.
Windows Server Hacks: Disable Run As
-- The "Run As" command in Windows is a great tool for network
administrators, but in the hands of ordinary users it can be dangerous.
Learn how to disable it for users so they can't do any harm, from Mitch
Tulloch, the author of Windows Server Hacks.
Setting Up a Virtual Private Network
-- If you're using Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Pro,
this article by Wei-Meng Lee will show you how to remotely--and
securely--access network resources with a user-to-network or a
network-to-network VPN. Wei-Meng is the author of Windows XP
Unwired.
Cooking with sendmail, Part 2 --
Learn how to configure sendmail to offer STARTTLS service and how to
limit the SMTP command set in these sample recipes from O'Reilly's sendmail
Cookbook.
Cooking with sendmail -- If you've been asked to configure sendmail to use the IETF Internet Draft Schema and read internal mail-routing information from the LDAP server, you'll find complete instructions for both the LDAP and the sendmail system administrator in this sample recipe from sendmail Cookbook.
Magnets Versus PDAs -- How well does your phone play with your PDA? Does your iPod coexist peacefully with your laptop? We're not talking about Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, or Firewire. Rather, does a strong magnet on one device interfere with the sensitive electronics of another? The debate began with a fancy orange tote in a recent thread From the Editors List.
Cooking with Apache, Part 3 -- Authors Rich Bowen and Ken Coar
solve problems related to authentication, symbolic links, and the
ever-troublesome trailing slash, in this third and final batch of sample
recipes from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook.
Cooking with
Apache, Part 2 -- Learn how to make part of your web site available via SSL; how to
place a CGI program in a directory that contains non-CGI documents; and how to redirect a 404
("not found") page to another page, in these latest sample recipes from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook.
Things Squid Administrators Should Know -- New users often struggle with the same frustrating set of idiosyncrasies involved in learning Squid, the popular web caching software. Here are six things you should know about using Squid from the get-go, from Duane Wessels, creator of Squid and author of Squid: The Definitive Guide.
Happy Hacking! Mike Langberg writes, "Most of us look at a toaster and see a kitchen appliance for crisping bread. Scott Fullam looks at a toaster and sees an engineering challenge. . . ," in this Mercury News book review of Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks.
Safari Gets Bigger and Better -- There are now more than 2,000 books from the industry's leading technical publishers available on Safari Bookshelf. As the library grows, so does its functionality: searches are powerfully precise and as broad or specific as you wish; and now, with a Safari Max subscription, you can download chapters to read offline. Safari will help you save time, reduce errors, keep current, and save more money than ever with up to 35% off print copies of your favorite books. If you haven't
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Wireless Mesh Networking -- Tomas Krag and Sebastian Büttrich take a look at some of the principles of wireless mesh networking and they demostrate how to install and run a mesh network on a Linux-based computer. Tomas will discuss how wireless technologies can bring Internet and Intranet connectivity to the developing world at O'Reilly's upcoming ETech 2004.
Troubleshooting
with Postfix Logs -- Learn how to get the most out of Postfix's standard logging,
including how to find all the relevant information in the logs, and how to increase the
amount of logging when more information is needed, in this article by Kyle Dent,
author of Postfix: The
Definitive Guide.
An
Introduction to the Twisted Networking Framework -- Network
programming is difficult, and not just because bandwidth and latency are
hard to manage. Itamar Shtull-Trauring introduces Python's Twisted, an
open source framework designed to ease development of networked applications.
Itamar will be presenting a session on Twisted February 9th at
O'Reilly's Emerging
Technology Conference.
Five Tips for a
Better sendmail Configuration -- Craig Hunt says creating a custom sendmail
configuration will give you better reliability, security, and maintainability, and he offers five tips to
help you build a better sendmail configuration. Craig is the author of the recently released sendmail Cookbook.
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