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	<description>About Linux, IT security,tips and tricks and otherstuff that comes into my mind</description>
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		<title>Workaround for routing WOL (Wake on LAN) packets with Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to send a WOL packet to a PC within your subnet it is really easy. Just install a program like wakeonlan (apt-get install wakeonlan) and type something like:

wakeonlan 01:02:03:04:05:06

But how to you send a WOL packet to an other subnet? Basically you use a UDP packet and send it to the broadcast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/294/workaround-for-routing-wol-packets-with-linux/</link>
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		<title>KDE 4.x and Autostart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was told by some fellow Linux guys that with KDE 4.x there is no Autostart possible anymore. I just wanted to write this blog post to show them that it is still possible even if it not in the KDE menu. Just create following directory if it does not exists
mkdir ~/.kde/Autostart
Some distributions may use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/223/kde-4-x-and-autostart/</link>
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		<title>Mini-Howto: Restore Windows MBR/Bootloader with Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often, at least more than I care, asked how to restore a Windows MBR/bootloader without having a windows install cd or a dos boot disk at hand. It&#8217;s quite easy you need just a Linux live cd like (the Ubuntu live cd or Knoppix) or an installed Linux you want get rid of. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/221/mini-howto-restore-windows-mbrbootloader-with-linux/</link>
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		<title>Workaround for the Ubuntu problem with KVM switches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Ubuntu not only Karmic (9.10), but also older versions have a problem with KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switches. To be exact the problem is the auto-detection of the capabilities of the monitor. If you connect the monitor directly to the computer everything works, if you use a KVM switch you get only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/219/workaround-for-the-ubuntu-problem-with-kvm-switches/</link>
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		<title>Fast test if local mail works on a server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just helped a friend whose server did not send cron mails to his mail server, which is this case led almost to data loss as the backup didn&#8217;t work correctly. I looked at the setup and I though I found the problem and correct it, but now I wanted to test it as easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/209/fast-test-if-local-mail-works-on-a-server/</link>
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		<title>Free SSL certificates will be supported in IE/Windows [Update]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the StartCom Blog the head of the company writes that its CA will be included by Microsoft. He states, &#8220;Starting approximately the 22nd of September, Microsoft intends to distribute a non-security update package to the Windows operating systems which includes the trusted StartCom root certificate and the automatic root certificate update service will update [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/212/free-ssl-certificates-will-be-supported-in-iewindows/</link>
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		<title>Courier-MTA reacts badly if own DNS server goes down [Update]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my DNS registrar and in my case also the provider of the DNS servers for my domains had a total blackout. He was down for about an hour, none of the 3 DNS servers was reachable. Ok, this was bad, no system could get the IPs for domain names &#8211; nothing I can to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/210/courier-mta-reacts-badly-if-own-dns-server-goes-down/</link>
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		<title>The Search for reduced SPAM load &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at

The Search for reduced SPAM load – Part 1
The Search for reduced SPAM load – Part 2

to understand purpose of this series and what I&#8217;m looking for. As only firewalling spammers which are in a DNS RBL after they got a 5xx didn&#8217;t worked as hoped I had an other idea.
Instead of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/179/the-search-for-reduced-spam-load-part-3/</link>
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		<title>The Search for reduced SPAM load – Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my first ideas discussed in the first part of this series didn&#8217;t work out as I liked it, I went ahead and looked for other means to withstand these waves. If packets and connections should not reach courier, I would need to use a smtp proxy or to something with the Linux kernel. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/176/the-search-for-reduced-spam-load-%e2%80%93-part-2/</link>
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		<title>The Search for reduced SPAM load &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first part of a series of articles which show the various ways I try to reduce the memory and CPU usage on one of my mail server due spammer. Why a series? The first and obvious ideas didn&#8217;t work &#8230;&#8230; but lets start from the beginning.
One of the mail server I manage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robert.penz.name/173/the-search-for-reduced-spam-load-part-1/</link>
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