Steam emails not arriving

I run my own email server and never have any trouble with email delivery – however recently some steam emails failed to arrive. I checked I wasn’t in any blacklists with senderbase, then dug further. Turns out I had SSL enabled on my MTA but using my old cert which was SHA1 & revoked (with …

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Upgrading my old ML115 server box

I’ve upgraded my old ML115 ESX box to Ubuntu 16.04, using OpenNebula as the virtualization platform. ON is available in the system repos, but this is an old version (4.1) so I’d advise using the ON repos. OpenNebula provides an EC2-compatible API, which allows the use of libcloud and there is also Docker integration. Ubuntu …

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Red

Red is both an imperative and functional programming language introduced in 2011 by Nenad Rakocevic. Its syntax and general usage directly overlaps with that of the interpreted Rebol language (which was introduced in 1997). Yet the implementation choices of Red were geared specifically to overcoming limitations of Rebol, creating what Rakocevic calls a “full stack …

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