Booting on a SATA drive with ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe mainboard

I noticed the  ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe mainboard, provided with Phoenix Technologies ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 simply won’t boot with a SATA driver while it does fine with a PATA (IDE) one. Not sure what specific part is at fault here. 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2) 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 [...]

Posted at 20:09 on January 27, 2012 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Hardware, Sysadmin | Tagged: , | read on

Avoiding Spams with SPF and greylisting within Exim

A year ago, I posted an article describing a way to slay Spams with both Bogofilter and SpamAssassin embedded in exim. This method was proven effective for my mailboxes:  since then, during a timespan of one year, Bogofilter caught ~ 85 % of actual spams, SpamAssassin (called only if mail not already flagged defavorably by [...]

Posted at 02:21 on December 9, 2011 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Networking, Sysadmin | Tagged: , , , , , , | read on


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