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Network settings for OpenBSD system hosted at OVH

I rent a physical server at OVH’s daughter company SoYouStart, and use it to run VMware vSphere/ESXi 6.0 on it, with a number of OpenBSD Virtual Machines (one of which hosts this blog). It took me a while to figure out the correct way of configuring the network settings on my OpenBSD VMs, as their […]

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3rd June 20165th April 2017 Michal13 Comments

OpenSMTPD, spamd, SpamAssassin and Dovecot on OpenBSD – part 2

In the long overdue part two of the OpenSMTPD configuration article, I’m going to focus on the configuration of the Backup MX servers.

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8th April 20167th June 2016 MichalNo Comments

Roundcube Webmail on OpenBSD 5.9

I’ve just upgraded a few of my VMs to OpenBSD 5.9 from 5.8. For the most part the migration went very smoothly, and I was able to run it over a very slow satellite link with an actual downtime per VM not exceeding 10-15 minutes, by which time all services were back up and running. […]

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4th April 20164th April 2016 Michal2 Comments

Mounting older Samba shares on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan

I have recently come across an issue where I needed to mount a Samba share from a server I have no control over, on to my trusty MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan. It turned out, however, that it’s not so easy to do anymore due to less-than-secure authentication method supported by […]

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20th February 20169th March 2016 Michal4 Comments

How to download VMware ESXi Client if you’re on a slow link

A couple of days ago I’ve had a little bit of an issue with my installation of the OSX on my trusty 2010 MacBook Pro. Generally, my Mac has hanged and the screen went all funny, and the only way for me to get it working again was to do a reboot. After that all […]

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14th February 201620th February 2016 MichalNo Comments

Database migration from MySQL 5.1 to MariaDB 10 on OpenBSD

Recently I have been on somewhat of a quest to bring as many of my Virtual Machines and servers to a current version of the Operating System as possible, and one of those servers is a small OpenBSD Virtual Machine used as a Database server for various web services. The challenge I faced was how […]

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24th August 201520th February 2016 Michal3 Comments

OpenSMTPD, spamd, SpamAssassin and Dovecot on OpenBSD – part 1

I have been running my own email server for as long as I remember. I guess I don’t like to rely on third parties for my email, so options like Google’s GMail or Apple’s iCloud are really not for me. I have recently migrated my email from an old system to a new one, and […]

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20th August 201510th February 2018 Michal68 Comments

Introductions

Welcome to my new technology blog and thank you for visiting! In this article I’d like to outline the main purpose of this blog, as well as list a few ideas for future articles I have. This will serve both as a reminder for me and as a commitment to you, to keep things motivated.

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11th August 201512th August 2015 Michal8 Comments

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