Where is Ploum ?

If you look in the mirror and see how was your computing world a few years ago, you would probably not believe it. Back in 2002, there was no Ubuntu, no OpenSuse, no Fedora and Mandriva was called Mandrake. Installing a Debian was a geekish thing that didn't detected anything automatically (not even the screen nor the mouse). Installing a printer was a matter of playing with the cups command line, Gnome was still 1.X (at least in Debian) and we didn't even thought about installing a webcam. In 2004 came Ubuntu and it's share of nude people. Connecting to a Wifi network required hours of command line knowledge and it was brown.

It's wonderful to see from how far we come and that, now, we can spend time to polish stuffs. And one big point that need polish is certainly the Ubuntu upgrade process.

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Bonjour mes adorables lecteurs. Vous allez bien ? Ça fait longtemps hein ? Et bien outre le fait que je négligeais ce blog au profit des quelques jours ensoleillés (suivi d'un temps de chien, hihi, jeu de mot anticipatif), je me dois de vous raconter une petite histoire. Pour la première fois depuis 10 jours, je retape sur mon clavier à deux mains. Et cette première fois, je vous la dédie. C'est pas gentil ça ?



Rien à battre ? Allez, je vous raconte quand même, c'est mon blog après tout, j'y fais un peu ce que je veux même si ça devient la rubrique des chiens écrasés.

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This article is only intended for people who have or want to have a self-administrated mail server. Normal people can safely ignore this and read something else.

You have set a mail server on a Debian/Ubuntu box and you are proud of it. This is fine. You followed some tutorials and have a working SpamAssassin integration. Fine ! But there is still a problem : most spam emails are not considered as spam because they are beneath the 5.0 threshold. You thought about lowering the threshold but you had too many false-positive, especially from your hotmail/yahoo friends. So, we will polish a bit your SA installation and add some cool anti-spam stuffs.

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2002 - Debian

Debian, the OS your mother would use if it was 20 times easier.

2005 - Ubuntu

Mom ! Please ! Get away from my computer, I have important stuffs^[1] to do ! MOM ! PLEAAAAASE !

Attention, ce billet est purement technique et concerne les curieux voulant installer Hula sous Debian. Dans un sens, on peut le voir comme une forme de poésie ultra-geek (la fleur Hula se dépose dans la spirale Debian grâce à la magie d'apt-get), mais bon... passez plutôt au billet suivant !

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