I was a bit fedup with using a dining room set as my desk, so Today I was finally able to just go to IKEA and get me a desk and Chair.
The Desk was 75� the Chair was 65� .. the Magazine and CD holders where 9�
I got this desk because I can make it higher than the standard desk, which means my back wont arch when I am working.
I feel that now I can finally work 
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I rarely Use Cpanel server anymore, but we do have a few on the NOC, and they constantly the target of hackers .. so ..
With the Help of Vladimir (Unicorn) .. here is a nice Iptables ruleset for Cpanel based servers.
Tonight I attended the “South Wales Linux Users Group” (http://www.swlug.org/) meeting.
It was interesting, it happen at a nice coffee shop “A shot in the dark” in Cardiff, it was nice for networking and meeting new friends, but the Beer was lousy :p
Next Meeting: Nov 04 in Swansea
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If you ever ran /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
to get something like this
[root@mail2 root]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 4830
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 173
After you find and stop the spammer, you now have a mess of email on your QMail queue .. here is a way to remove it
take a “user@domain.com” that is common on the spammed emails (usually the sender) and run this command
grep -R user@domain.com /var/qmail/queue/mess/* | awk -F":" '{print "rm -f " $1}' | sh
That will delete the emails that contain that user@domain .. be very careful with this, a wrong setting and you can be wiping your mailserver clean instead 
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I went to check Swansea (Wales) today.
The city looks nice, the downtown doesn’t have as much flair as Cardiff does, but it’s very nice neither the less ..
The main differences I saw is that Cardiff is very well compacted downtown, Swansea is a bit more spread, it actually gives the impression of having a Larger topografic area than Cardiff, I don’t believe it does,, the seem to be about the same, but Swansea has 100K less people.
The price difference between the two cities can be as high as 40% (Real Estate) .. so unless I find a major deal in Cardiff, Swansea might be the only choice we got … we will see as I scour more of the vicinity during the upcoming months.
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I have installed X1000 v3 Linux on my NX7000 Laptop, I mush say Ahmad (http://x1000.bitbuilder.com/) has done a terrific Job.
here is a screenshot.
Got up early, about 5:30 .. I was too nervous to sleep .. I have a mortal fear of flying, so the idea of getting into 2 planes was just nerve wrecking.
MY mother came and sit with me at about 6:30 .. the cab was already scheduled for 7:45 .. we spoke for a while, all and all I will miss her allot.
Cab came at 7:45 .. we loaded up the bags .. my mother and sister started to cry .. I felt very bad, and gave sister a hug .. heck, life is too short to bring up resentments on times like these (I stopped speaking to her a few months back over a few incidents)
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