Mail queues management with Postfix (1.x)

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/148).
This article describes commonly used commands in mail queues management with Postfix 1.x. It probably applies for posterior versions, but has not been tested. To show the message summaries in the current queue:
$ mailq
To flush the queue (i.e. force delivery):
$ postqueue -f

HOWTO Manually set NIC speed on Sun Solaris

This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/143).
Here is how to set manually speed and duplex parameters on network interfaces in Sun Solaris. Adding the following code (comment lines start with '*') to you /etc/system file and rebooting will put your hme type interfaces to 10 Mbits/s Half-Duplex: * * set hme driver modes * *set hme:hme_adv_100T4_cap = 0 *set hme:hme_adv_100fdx_cap = 1 *set hme:hme_adv_100hdx_cap = 0 *set hme:hme_adv_10fdx_cap = 0 set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap = 1 set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap = 0

Manually install an Akelos project in development

Akelos is a PHP Framework designed to be as close as possible to the Ruby on Rails framework, but in PHP. When developing a web application with Akelos in a group of several developers, and until an installation procedure has been put in place, you might want to manually install the application from the sources. This document will take you through the step of doing just that.

Avoid sending e-mails to many recipients "in clear"

This article was first written in June 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/131).
You should always avoid to send e-mails to many recipients at the same time with their address in the To: or Cc: field. The reason is that if you use Bcc:, any recipient will not be able to see other's e-mail address.

Why would you want that?

Because many viruses on the Internet these days know how to go into your e-mail archives and search for the e-mail addresses that you can see too.

HOWTO Install kana and kanji for Firefox on Debian Sarge

This article was first written in May 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/130).
This is a quick manual on how to install kana and kanji (Japanese writing) handling for the Mozilla-Firefox browser (and probably all other browsers) on Debian Sarge. I don't know whether the following is or isn't mandatory, but these steps were enough to give a good result.

Installing the "Languages" extension

* Note: this section has proven useless so I have moved it to the end of t

CSV to Vcard converter

This article was first written in May 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/127)
Here is a Python script I used to convert CSV files containing contact information, extracted from a Microsoft Exchange Server, to vcard format. See also: csv2vcard which is probably better maintained nowadays. TODO:
  • the field names are in Dutch.

Activating the comma instead of the dot in OOo Calc

This article was first written in May 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/126)
GNOME seems to have its own way of managing the numeric keypad, which leads to something very frustrating: the dot (or comma) on the keypad is understood as dot, while the decimal separator in Belgium should be the comma. To change that, I have not found a better solution that to add a line like this in /etc/X11/Xmodmap create it if needed:
keycode 91 = KP_Delete comma
This has been tested on Debian Woody and Debian Sarge, both using GDM and a GNOM

Redirecting ports (NAT) to another machine on a Cisco router

This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/121)
Log into the machine (using telnet for example). Change to enable mode. Change to configuration terminal mode:
# conf term
Issue the following command to redirect port 22/tcp from the outside interface (address) to the inside machine you would like the connection to get to:
(config)# ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.0.7 22 222.221.220.68 22
First IP is the inside local IP address (inside the LAN, only reachable locally, so interna