Has anyone who reads my friends list ever worked with any sort of SSL (or other type) of cryptography accelerator? I’ve been thinking about setting up one to accelerate SSL in my webserver. It seems to be possible to obtain a few fairly cheap via eBay when one uses some inventive searching.
Have you found them to be useful? Did it really speed things up? I’m hoping to use this under FreeBSD…
To make a long story short, I picked up a 512MB SanDisk Ultra II SD card at lunch today. Since I’ve (for the time being) got possession of a regular 512MB SanDisk SD card, I decided to benchmark the two of them. Well, under HDTach, both achieved a straight 1.1MB/sec. Under SiSoft Sandra I got the results detailed above, with the regular card coming in faster than the Ultra II.
I think something is sour with this PCMCIA reader I was using to benchmark them. I think I’ll have to get a USB2.0 reader or something. :\
Hey everybody… Due to a whole bunch of linking to a video on my site by complete strangers (normally I don’t mind this, but it’s used almost 5GB this month alone) and a desire to clean things up, I’ve moved all the videos that had been found in http://www.nuxx.net/files to http://www.nuxx.net/files/videos. So, if for some reason you are looking for something and it seems to have been moved, that’s where it was moved to. :)
Ahh, I figured out the problem.
It seems that in my haste to get vpopmail reinstalled this morning, I gave it an argument of -DSPAM_THRESHOLD=5. Normally I wouldn’t have used that argument, but it seems that the updated FreeBSD port requires it. That, or I don’t remember using it last time… Anyway, that particular vpopmail flag made it DELETE all spam with a score of greater than 5. Sure, most stuff got through, but some was getting deleted. Oops! Since I’ve discovered this flag’s true use (note that this flag is NOT documented in the vpopmail docs) I’ve since recompiled with it set to 30. (And yes, that can only be set per-server, at compile time.) I figure that spam which received a score greater than 30 is hopelessly bad, and should not be delt with.
So, that’s that. Now it’s time to go home and have some dinner. I think tonight’s tasty treat will be veggie nuggets with a spicy salsa to dip them in.
Hmm. So today I installed SpamAssassin 3.0. Things went good, except in the middle of everything an errant find command b0rked my vpopmail install. (Who would have thought that find . -delete -name “bayes*” would delete everything in and beneth the current directory, while find . -name “bayes*” -delete would only recursively delete all files matching ‘bayes*’.)
Anyway, vpopmail is reinstalled, SpamAssassin is doing it’s thing, etc. Except for one problem. I don’t get any spam. At all. I get messages that are flagged as not being spam, but I never ever get any flagged as spam. I’m really not sure what’s going on… SpamAssassin isn’t capable of deleting messages, and I’ve got nothing in place to ensure that the messages go away. And messages that are flagged as not being spam come through. So, I’m not sure what’s up.
One thought is that spam counts happen to be way down today (this is a distinct possibility) and that all the spam I am getting is the silly no body / no subject / no date mail, which the MTA is doing away with.
I guess the only thing to do is go home, reset the junkmail counters in Mail.app, and see if they increase over night. If I don’t get *any* spam, I’ll have to look further. Every message that I’ve expected to receive has gotten through… I just don’t have any test spam.
[UPDATE]
I’d forgotten I left this window open… In the mean time, I sent something that was apt to be flagged as spam, but it was legit. Now to figure out what’s going on…
Okay, now this is one of the most useful things I’ve installed in a long time. Google has introduced Google Desktop Search, and boy does it work well. It’s installed and picking through my email and my machine, and the searching is just great. Outlook search is notoriously faulty, taking a long time to pick through mail, being keyboard (and not context) based, etc.
Well, this tool sits there, indexes your whole machine, and offers searches on files, contents of files, email, chats, everything. It’s *exactly* what I’ve been wanting for quite some time. You know how it’s always been easier to search the internet than your local machine… Well, now searching your local machine is just as easy. This makes me really, really happy.
Does anyone here have a preferred ftp daemon that they run? I’d use the one built into FreeBSD, but I’d prefer to have something a bit more stand-alone which will do authentication on it’s own with chroot support, as I want logins with no system accounts to access only very specific directories.
I’d run Apache 2.x and use it’s ftp module, but I’m still concerned about PHP compatibility with it.
Man, my colo facility is f’d up. Well, not their facility… Or their service… Just their billing. See, I installed the server back in February and (except for a failed switch card which they quickly replaced) things have been working great. Except for billing.
After the server was installed, I was told that I’d be receiving a bill at the end of the month. No problem… Well, three months rolled by and no bill. After a bit of email being sent around, I received an invoice a few days later. Paid it, no problems.
Well, three more months roll past, and still no bills. So, I email them asking for the June, July, and August bills. After a phone conversation early Wednesday morning, the billing folks explain that they don’t know what happened, but they’ll send an invoice out. So, Friday comes and I receive an invoice. For September. Bah! Heh…
Fortunately after a phone call today with Bill, the person who was there when I put the server in, he said that I should just pay the September bill, and they will get the billing stuff straightened out and send me another invoice in a few weeks to clear it all up.
That’s fine with me… I just hope it happens. Heh. In the mean time I’ve cancelled the June and July checks, adding them back into the pool of float, and waiting for the next invoice. I’ll just send what was to be the August check as the September payment.
Heh… It’s just funny. Most places are rock solid on their billing while service suffers. This place provides great, fast connectivity with cheap colocation rates. Just…. iffy billing. :)
So, yeah. Need someone to host your server? Look up Waveform Technologies.
Nothing like finding what appears to be a bug in your email system at 3am. When you are tired. Too tired to fix it now.
Here’s the problem: When vpopmail (the virtual domain mail management add-in for qmail) authenticates a user via pop3 or imap, it adds an entry to a database stating that the IP address the user coming from is allowed to send mail through the server, via SMTP. This all generally works fine, except when you are checking your email via POP3 with SSL.
Then, instead of the standard line like this:
68.60.89.18:allow,RELAYCLIENT=””,RBLSMTPD=”” 1091862544
You instead get something like this:
__ffff_68.60.89.18:allow,RELAYCLIENT=””,RBLSMTPD=”” 1091861372
As the second line doesn’t work, someone with an account on my mail server won’t be able to relay mail through my mail server.
So, I’m not completely sure what’s going on as of yet. I think maybe if I update vpopmail (qmailadmin needs it as well) things will get straightened out, but we’ll have to see.
Actually, I’m now starting to think that the problem could be with my config in general. It seems I overlooked something, and I currently have qmail doing POP3, and courier doing POP3-SSL. So, I may have overlooked something when I set my mail server up way back when, and this whole time I’ve been working around the problem without knowing it, simply by having just one of my accounts check via POP3 as opposed to POP3 with SSL.
Hmm… So yeah, if this is the case, I need to figure out how to have courier make the required changes to have POP before SMTP work with it, too.
I guess I didn’t do it right instead of the first place.