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BSDly ☛ That grumpy BSD guy: Why 451 is Good for You - Greylisting Perspectives From the Early Noughties
A software vendor was using SMTP spamware to send license keys customers had paid thousands for. A measured rant was in order, and turned out to be quite enlightening.
While looking thrugh directories of old material, I stumbled upon what was most likely the main part of a complaint sent to a software vendor for failing to deliver a license key file the company I worked for then had paid some thousands of dollars for.
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Maury ☛ What an unprocessed photo looks like
It’s not even black-and-white, it’s gray-and-gray. This is becuase while the ADC’s output can theoretically go from 0 to 16382, the actual data doesn’t cover that whole range: [...]
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ID Root ☛ How To Install Netdata on openSUSE
System monitoring forms the backbone of efficient GNU/Linux server management. Netdata emerges as a powerful real-time monitoring solution that transforms how administrators track system performance on openSUSE distributions. This comprehensive guide demonstrates multiple installation methods, configuration strategies, and optimization techniques for implementing Netdata on openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed systems.
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Terence Eden ☛ Extracting Video from Motion Photos on Linux
Modern Android cameras can take "Motion Photos". They capture a few seconds of video from before and after you hit the shutter button. You can then either select the bit of the photo where no-one is blinking, or you can send the whole thing as a little movie.