Votre Carte Bancaire est suspendue

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Petit manuel de prudence à l’usage des candides de l’Internet. Ce midi, en regardant mes mails à la machine à café (ok, il était 13:50), je tombe sur un mail m’indiquant que ma carte bleue a été volée, frauduleusement utilisée et bloquée par ma banque. Vu de mon iPhone™, ce mail avait l’air plutôt probable… Je me dis “tiens, mon dernier achat Internet aurait-il été de trop?”…

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Running Windows on Xen

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The NetBSD/xen port is able to run M$ Windows domU, since you have a CPU that features the Intel® VMX instruction.

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My SMTP cheat sheet

       321 words, 2 minutes

Today is the day when my SMTP server didn’t want me to relay mail after authentication… This is probably my fault as I may have change something without remembering it. Anyway, here the commands to use to talk SMTP to your favorite server.

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Running OpenBSD on Xen

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Here’s the configuration I use to run OpenBSD 4.9-beta on my NetBSD/xen server (NetBSD 5 with Xen 3.3.1). Since OpenBSD doesn’t provide a Xen-aware kernel, I run it using HVM.

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My IMAP cheat sheet

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When I want to check if an IMAP server is working properly, I telnet it and run basics commands. Here are (IMAP) commands that I keep using.

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