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Tmlmmj, a proper replacement for ezmlm

Posted on za 16 augustus 2008 in services • Tagged with debian

Last year I rushed to replace qmail + ezmlm with postfix + mailman. SPAM was killing me and my Scouting friends. Sure, postfix is a wonderful MTA, but mailman is somewhat different if you’re in love with ezmlm.

But now I found mlmmj (mailing list management made joyful) and everything is …


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Cancelled my ADSL line and provider bought by KPN

Posted on za 03 juni 2006 in services • Tagged with homelab

About a week ago I cancelled both my ADSL link from Demon and my ISDN telephone line. I'm paying about 80 euro a month for the two so I'm trying to get something cheaper. But looking at the options, I'm just not able to make up my mind. So many …


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Power usage in my home

Posted on ma 22 mei 2006 in home • Tagged with homelab

Item Watt
Trinity media PC 76 Watt (IDLE) 100 W (gzipping) 68 W (HDD sleep)
KPN TV settop (dual tuner) 14 W (on), 13 W ('off')
KPN TV settop (single tuner) 7 W (on), 5 W ('off')
iBook charger 2 W (IDLE)
Phone chargers 0 W (no phone connected )
normal …

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Bye bye Postfix, hello Qmail

Posted on vr 21 april 2006 in services • Tagged with cloud, debian

I switched to postfix about a year ago for most of my mail stuff, but have decided to move back to qmail. The Postfix + MySQL combo does work, but I think it is slow and error prone. So back so qmail+vmailmgr it is ;)

Finally getting to the point where …


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Linux on the Scouting Desktop

Posted on ma 17 april 2006 in scouting • Tagged with debian, hardware

I spent the weekend in Harderwijk, as a leader of a Internet related Scouting activity. We were unable to bring too much fancy new hardware, because of insurance issues so I was stuck reclycling a couple of Pentium II systems. As I already got rid of all my Windows CD-ROMs …


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