lefred

lefred

I am MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. I joined the MySQL Community Team in May 2016. I have been an OpenSource and MySQL consultant for more than 15 years. My favorite topics are High Availability and Performance.
  • Joined: April 26, 2016
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Disillusion

I bought the Gnu Linux Magazine / France on Mail server but it was a big disillusion :(

Usually those magazines are very nice and full of good tips and tricks. But not this time, I was expecting to find a lot of tools to fight spams... but the only topic related is MailScanner (which is a very good product that I use daily). The only MTA reviewed is exim, nothing about postfix, sendmail, qmail... for a special number it's a bit too few. The first 19 pages (of 70) are only related of theory rfc's and mime, maybe too much...

Something I regret too is that at the end of the magazine there are articles about Xen, Zone0 and Jabber, I think the following topics would be nicer :

- greylisting
- sare
- mailwatch (very nice frontend for mailscanner)
- ocr for spams

So nothing really new in that magazine, my notation is 3/10

Gnome gvfs a step behind ?

Today I had a bad surprise, at one customer, deploying Linux on desktop, they had some issues with samba shares access: no more shortcuts in places menu for the samba shares. This was due to the update of ubuntu from gusty to hardy.

The problem is that now nautilus 2.22 is provided and this release use gvfs instead of gnome-vfs.

Before that upgrade we decided to add some "share access" via gconf, this was perfect as it was added in /etc/profile.

example :

gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/connected_servers/1/display_name 'public on samba'
gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/connected_servers/1/icon 'gnome-fs-smb'
gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/connected_servers/1/uri "smb://domain;$USERNAME@samba/public"

This is not more possibe :'-(

Ok let's try then to use bookmarks... but the problem is that the login is not used even if forced when the share is also public. The customer use a big public folder and acl's.

So the only solution I had was to setup the share with 

 
 public = no

to make it works and request a login and password.

For massive desktop implementation, I preferred the gconf medthod. Maybe somebody could hack gvfs to force a user even on a public share.

DrupalCampParis2: 19 april 2008

DrupalCampParis 2 is an opportunity to promote Drupal in the "Francophonie" and then in the South of our little country as Joeri says in his post.

Pour ceux qui veulent accroître leurs connaissances en Drupal, ils pourrons assister à DrupalCampParis 2 où les sessions seront en français et en anglais. Peut-être que cette conférence éveillera des vocations de contributeur à drupal.be en français ?

Sooner is better….

Since always, I believe that the best way of educating people to use and think opensource, this should happen early at school.

M$ knows that and since long time now they provide computers for schools, adult users of tomorrow are the children of today.

M$ now starts even earlier, look at this !

Bah... I've already a bunch of books with penguins for my daughter ;-)

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