Do you run a website or -service and have you ever considered adding an SSL certificate to encrypt the traffic from and to your server/host? Many people would probably like to do this but don’t because they do not want to pay the price of SSL certificates, or maybe they think configuring their services to…

So all of a sudden, my Hangouts window was prompting me to sign in. I clicked the button, it opened a browser window asking for my password. I logged in, said window closed, the Hangouts window refreshed… and asked me to sign in again. I was stuck with this, and it happened on all three…

First get a channel list from your operator/provider. Mine (willy.tel in Hamburg) can be found here and looks like this:

I was looking for some new business desktop computers to buy. They should have a Core2Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a DVD burner, Gbit LAN and two monitor connectors of which one should be DVI. I used to buy these computers from HP, but I couldnt find a single model with DVI anymore. They have…

Want to configure postfix/spamassassin and wonder which RBLs to choose? I found a cool site which monitors ham and spam hit statistics of a lot of RBLs. Check out http://www.intra2net.com/en/support/antispam/, it’s worth a visit. My definite winner is zen.spamhaus.org. While having the highest spam hit quote, it has 0% ham hits.

To all other sysadmins out there in the world: Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day 2009!