Stuff…

Thought this was an interesting article.  Just wanted to note it down to have a read of later:

Fiber-to-the-X: the economics of last-mile fiber

Lately the word “fiber” has started to become ubiquitous in advertisements for broadband. It’s a synonym for the future, for speed and quality. Everybody tries to connect that synonym to their brand, regardless [...]

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Just some URLs about Cisco GBICs that I want to look at later:

Cisco SFP Optics For Gigabit Ethernet Applications [Cisco Transceiver Modules] – Cisco Systems

Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Modules Compatibility Matrix – Cisco Systems

Cisco Gigabit Interface Converter [Cisco Transceiver Modules] – Cisco Systems

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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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