How to configure KMail with GPG on Slackware Linux 14.1
Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages
A while back I did some consulting work for a small ISP who had received complaints from a few customers that believed they could not use the ISP’s SMTP server to send email to outlook.com or hotmail.com accounts. These customers claimed they never got any bounce message (Non-Delivery Report) in return, so they firmly believed the problem resided with the ISP.
IPredator OpenVPN Slackware Linux 14.1 setup
IPredator is a swedish VPN service offered with the stated goal of providing internet privacy.
BlueOnyx 5106R - Unresponsive Login Manager
BlueOnyx uses the PAM ABL module to mitigate brute force attacks. Though it’s not a good idea to rely solely on this module to protect your services, it’s definitely better than nothing. However, for some reason the database storing the failed hosts and users tends to corrupt easily on BlueOnyx systems.
How to install Dig on a Windows 8.1 64-bit system
Zimbra 8 - Automatically check for new mail on external POP3 and IMAP accounts
Instead of logging on to each of your external email accounts, you can retrieve all your accounts’ email messages directly from Zimbra. It’s one of those things you just expect to work with an enterprise ready solution like Zimbra.
BioShock – No in-game sound on Windows 8
WordPress xmlrpc.php - Brute Force Attacks
What was supposed to be a quiet Saturday morning quickly turned into a couple of hours trying to mitigate an increasing strain on a WordPress based site. After getting around 800 post requests per minute to the WordPress xmlrpc.php file, resources for the site in question was getting sparse.
VMware Player - How to install VMware Tools on a Slackware Linux guest
I usually prefer VirtualBox for my non-commercial virtualization needs, but since I already had VMware Player 6.0.2 installed on a Windows 8.1 64-bit host I decided go with it for my Slackware Linux 64-bit guest.