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Exim can be configured to block emails containing key words, as a method to fight spam. Obviously this is not a comprehensive solution, but ...

Trying to upgrade a Macbook Pro 7.1 (mid-2010) from Sierra to High Sierra failed with several cryptic error messages. This laptop had been u...

After a recent update some time around March 2016, a Macbook Pro with Nvidia 320M GPU running Ubuntu 15.10 would stop waking from sleep - th...

apt-get install exim4 To support recent IOS devices you need to generate a 2048-bit SSL certificate. Add TCP port 587 to the listening p...

This outline assumes you own your own domain and manage the DNS servers running Debian Wheezy or Jessie with: bind9 for DNS lighttp for ...

Starting with base system installed. Install the Email server (MTA): We need a working mail system, here we use sendmail with dovecot prov...

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Some CD's I have burnt myself do not mount in Sabayon Linux. dmesg shows the following errors: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, secto...

After a Sabayon 13 update in May 2015, new artwork is locked in the initrd file system.  Dracut builds of the initramfs kernal image file sy...

LXDE on OpenSuse 13.2 uses xdg-su ass the GUI frontend to run applications using sudo. If it can't load gnomesu or kdesu then it present...

LXDE doesn't have a default screenshot grabber. Here's how to install Screengrab from source on OpenSuse 13.2: Download the source...

Running Sabayon Linux, with systemd, on a MacBook, the LCD backlight always resets to maximum brightness after reboot. This is an annoyance ...

(This blog is in reference to a Debian Lenny AMD64 system) hp-health is the package that is supposed to provide access to the fan status o...

Symptom: Clicking on GParted launcher has no effect. Log /var/log/messages shows: The value for environment variable TERM contains suscipi...

cd /usr/local/src git clone [ProjectX] cd [ProjectX] git checkout [commit checksum from Github] mkdir build cd build cmake .. make ...

This is a quick guide to installing LXQt desktop (current version LXQt 0.7.0) on Gentoo based Sabayon Linux (current release 14.06). Firs...

When using Razor-Qt desktop environment, if the PCManFM file manager has blank icons then you may need to use LXappearance to set an icon th...

To set the system default locale to en_AU.UTF-8 in Sabayon 13.11: sudo nano /etc/locale.gen   en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8   en_AU ISO-8859-1 sud...

Zenity 3.8.0 on Sabayon 13.12 has a bug that doubles the output of list with seperating pipe, as explained here: https://bugs.launchpad.ne...

LXDE includes the "Preferred Applications" (libfm-pref-apps) program to set the preferred web browser. It works by changing the fo...