The Tripplite OmniVS 1500XL is a great home/SOHO USB UPS that is expandable with external battery packs. But, the NUT support on Debian-based linux distros is no bueno. They support Redhat-based with some software, but Debian users are stuck with NUT and tripplite_usb driver support. The unit doesn’t dish a few variables via the tripplite_usb driver so you kind of want to add a few...
Blocking garbage gTLDs with postfix header_checks
In looking at my Postfix mail.logs, I only see the new ICANN vanity gTLDs really generating garbage spam. Lots of press on the mess this all is causing. I got kind of sick of even dealing with that, so here is the header_checks lines I use to block them via postfix if you want to do that on your setup. There are a lot of articles on the internet for this, but I here is what works for me. YMMV...
Repairing a badly damaged package system in Ubuntu
Recently, I did something really stupid and damaged my whole dpkg system. It was pretty bad. I did an “apt-get purge” with a pattern and wildcard and thought it was only going to remove everything around a specific package. It didn’t. It did much much more. Not helping the whole situation was the interrupt I issued when I saw apt going through and yanking stuff that I...