Moved to Google Apps

I started to get tired of managing my own exim+spamassassin+clamav+dovecot only to serve my domain, so I dediced to give Google Apps a try. The move was fairly easy, simply register and change MX records ;) (and use imapsync to copy mail). I guess I didn’t loose anything but If you sent me a mail in the last two weeks and I haven’t answered, please resend. The only downside, I hoped google would have some “easy” way to move my google account from *@gmail....

Jul 29, 2008 · 1 min · Marc Fargas

Ip Tunnel Over Ssh With Tun

Today I had some connection problems in one of our offices, so I needed to connect in some alternative way. A good moment for experimenting… The alternative connection was my laptop acting as a router connected with my mobile phone via bluetooth. The problem’s come with the VPN connections, IPSec is nice, but you can hate it on lots of things… i.e. all tunnels are setup using static ip addresses so in order to use the alternate connection (dynamic IP) I need to change the ipsec config of the other offices....

Jul 24, 2008 · 2 min · Marc Fargas

Wordpress in the Meantime

Ok, as you may have noticed I’m running Wordpress. Although I’m a big fan of Django and I really enjoy developing sites with it, I just realised I do not have time to “build” my own website, neither to write up a blog app (I know, there are many out there). So I decided I’d try to live with Wordpress for some time, … That just has a few problems… My server (marcfargas....

Jul 20, 2008 · 1 min · Marc Fargas

Ms Excel Help Little Gem

We know Microsoft likes to be ambiguous, I just got this on MS Excel Help (In Spanish): Si a1 es VERDADERO o se omite, ref se interpreta como una referencia estilo A1. Si a1 es FALSO o se omite, ref se interpreta como una referencia estilo L1C1. This can be translated to: If a1 is TRUE or omitted, ref is interpreted as a reference of style A1. If a1 is FALSE or omitted, ref is interpreted as a reference of style L1C1....

Feb 13, 2008 · 1 min · Marc Fargas

Outgoing connections from Linux not working

A friend of mine has a nice MythTV box on his bedroom. Suddently the box decided to not open outgoing connections anymore… I say outgoing because I could still connect to it from my home. I could not find out what was last changed, maybe an aptitude upgrade or did he change ISP? After some time looking around the only thing I could find out was a small difference between a SYN packet send from a remote place and the SYN packets send by the broken system:...

Jan 13, 2008 · 2 min · Marc Fargas