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Was using Free PHP Formmail Generator : http://phpfmg.sourceforge.net to send the contents of a form and when sending to most mail servers/mail clients it would work great.  When sending to a Microsoft Exchange server the HTML contents of the email was displayed as text (not marked up).
Tried this with PHP4 and PHP5 and had the [...]

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There is a bug in some older rulebase versions for spam assassin 3.x which will cause an extra 3.4 points to be added onto incoming mail which greatly increases the chances of the mail being marked as spam.
The rule “FH_DATE_PAST_20XX” checks to see if the email is from the future, however, since the new year [...]

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Installing Ubuntu on a new Dell R410 works, however, the network interfaces are not detected.  It appears the network interfaces included in the Dell R410 are Broadcom BCM5716’s.
Apparently the bnx2 driver in included in Ubuntu 8.10 and later, however, no backported driver has been provided as yet.
A process for getting the interfaces working would be [...]

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The cacti RRA files that were being update by the crontab:
/usr/bin/php /usr/share/cacti/poller.php
stopped working for some reason.  No permissions had changed, but, the disk did fill up at one start.  It was thought that perhaps some of the RRA files had been corrupted, however, running rrdtool info and fetch on the files they worked fine.
It turned [...]

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Thought this article was pretty cool for a finals project:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/offtheshelf-expedition-takes-flight-20091014-gw6o.html
The idea was to launch my system into the stratosphere to an altitude of about 100,000 feet (30,480 metres) using a weather balloon. At that altitude, it could take pictures (hopefully) showing the blackness of space above and the curvature of the Earth below.
Bit of an [...]

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