I used the relay host of my internet provider but this was causing issues since my email was getting mark as SPAM in gmail.
It was already on my to-do list to move my outgoing mail to my mail provider also to make it easier to move to another ISP or to implement SPF but was not on the top of my to-do list.
My email provider requires authentication, so I needed to reconfigure postfix in my FreeBSD mail jail to use a relay host with authentication.
With Meldown https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5754, Spectre Variant 1 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5753 and Spectre Variant 2 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5753 out in the wild there is a lot of confusing going about updating microcode.
There is a “Spectre & Meltdown Checker” available at https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
Usage is very easy just clone the git repository and run the script.
Microcode isn’t uploaded to the CPU but loaded during the boot strap of the CPU. Normally the BIOS upload the microcode to the CPU but this can also be done by the by the bootloader, or the operating system kernel.
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I finally got the time to continue with my bacula backup setup. See my previous posts about the start of my bacula setup.
I created a new zfs pool “bigpool” with some old harddisks I probably need to replace them with bigger harddisk in the further.
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I own a Unicomp model-m keyboard. The keyboard has a nice key feel but it has windows super key(s).
I don’t use super key(s), and would prefer to have a keyboard without it. But when it has super keys I’d rather have it without the windows logo on it so it was time to replace them with the tux version
Read more...I finally got the time to try out my jenkins build on my new 20 Core Dual Processor Jenkins Build Workstation
I’m able to run all test on multiple operation systems now. I still need to review this setup and perhaps move some tests to docker instead of the virtual machines to save some memory. …but this jenkins setup was configured before docker was a thing.
Have fun
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