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Month: July 2008

A Brief Analysis of OpenID

Posted on July 31, 2008October 6, 2014 by Jon Stacey

“Holy crap! A single unique ID that will give me access to any website would be freaking sweet!” That was my initial response when I first heard about OpenID and what the project envisioned. It reminded me of the computer systems in sci-fi movies where the heroes didn’t have to memorize dozens of passwords to…

So Long Mediatemple, Hello Slicehost

Posted on July 18, 2008October 6, 2014 by Jon Stacey

For about a year now I have been running all of my projects on various mediatemple servers and while I have not had any trouble with the services I have always had to opt out of the upgrade program which essentially meant that I was paying a premium for a self-managed VPS. Last weekend I…

Setting up Email Services on Ubuntu Hardy Using Postfix and Courier

Posted on July 14, 2008September 28, 2014 by Jon Stacey

I recently spent some quality time (read: 6 hours) setting up email services on my server with Ubuntu Hardy. Here’s a very quick mini-tutorial of the steps that got me up and running with IMAP, SMTP, TLS, and POP3.

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