System Administration

Limited Email

I've been working on learning postfix and migrating email accounts to it. The service I'm dreaming about is going to be "limited email" and differs entirely from the big email servers.

Maxtor Fireball 541DX 2B020H1

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Western Digital Caviar WDxxxAB WDC WD400AB-22BTA0

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Seagate U6 ST380020A (failed disk)

Example of a disk that has failed.

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IBM/Hitachi Deskstar GXP-180 IC35L090AVV207-0

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IBM Deskstar 14GXP and 16GP IBM-DTTA-350840

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Western Digital Caviar SE Serial ATA WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS

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WDC WD307AA

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Copying Parts of a DVD with Read Errors

If you have a DVD that you're ripping that has bad sectors, and it's not a commercial one with intentional bad sectors for copy protection, you can try to salvage the files in parts.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 family

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 family
Device Model:     ST31000528AS
Serial Number:    9VP5PKS8
Firmware Version: CC38

Using Mutt to Read Spam and non-Spam Messages, and Train Spamassassin

This explains how to set up your server to go over email messages that have been rejected as spam, and then help train the Spamassassin Bayesian filter to correctly identify these messages.

IBM/Hitachi Deskstar GXP-180

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SMART Commands and Reports for Good and Bad Disks

I'm really not sure where to put this, so it's being put here.

Bypass a Password with a Proxy

This is a one-line trick to serve images from a password-protected webcam to the world.

curl -i http://admin:@192.168.111.150/MJPEG.CGI | nc -lCt localhost 10203

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