System Admin’s Weblog

Well, i tested that shit. It has a lot of stuff for simple websites. But, if you want something more complicate, you have to download extensions. And there are extensions …lots of them, hundreds…or maybe thousands…a lot. Well..i didn’t try the extensions though. I guess it should work with 200 or more extensions downloaded and enabled like i wanted it to work.

So after that i took a look on silverstripe. Yet, another CMS. The good part of this one is that you can start programming that shit in a minute. Uses MVC model..and i guess pages are easily administrable from the adminstration page of it, …but, if you look in its documentation, you get really dizzy from it. Now they’re talking about how to do things by admin page, then some code that you can write….then another thing from admin..then some other code…it’s a…kinda mess over there.

So after that, i got back to my old CodeIgniter to do this job for me. It will take much more time than a simple html website, but it will worth it.

For now, i just bought myself a new desk. Didn’t had one here, so today, after trying to work a lil, and got sick of the conditions..like..the bed, or the living room, i bought myself a desk. So, now i have my lil paradise corner in the bedroom. Here it is…

So, i’m starting a new project for myself. Luckily, it will put some money in my pocket..that’s of course, with a lil’ investment in advertising and some other tools to promote the website. That’s right. A website. And, because i got to lazy for programming all the things by hand, i’ve started using a CMS – Joomla. It’s not like i studied a lot before choosing one, but this one seemed it has a big community of users and programmers, and had the highest page rank of the CMS i’ve browsed.

Of course, it’s gonna take a lot for me to finish the website…like ..weeks, maybe months, but i’m sure it’s gonna be a success if it turns out to be just the way i imagined it. I’m not giving you the link yet, but i will, someday…when it will be ready for production.

Right..So this is what i gotta do at work. Mail server comparison. But, damn…not all mail servers on this planet, no. Just 3 of the solutions we brought to discussion. It will be between Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0, MDaemon + Security Plus addon, Exchange 2007 + SP1. It will be done by tomorrow, so i’ll put the results on here after i’m done. Hope it will be useful for someone.

So, what i’m trying to do these days at work is replacing the current mail server solution. Which actually, is a fucking big mess which includes: a lot of mail queues, before and after Postfix is dealing with it, renaming, auto-responder, e-mail lists stored in an OpenLDAP, user account stored in AD and OpenLDAP..and there’s a hook in AD that whenever some change occurs in AD, changes will be made in OpenLDAP.

Requirements for the new solutions are like this: user login and quota in AD, e-mail lists easily administrable by the list administrator (delegation of users to administer a list..or more), shared folders and calendars, antivirus + antispam. And all the crap to be easy to administer.

So, all the guys having something to say in this matter, said something different. Our windows guy said Exchange 2007. (personally, i didn’t try it, but exchange 2003 is a piece of shit..but only in my opinion, a linux guy ). My boss said Zimbra. Because he saw Yahoo mark on their page, and got so excited that he put me to test the open source version, which actually, doesn’t have that much, i’m still testing it to see what’s all its features, and how easy is to administer. As i saw after a successful installation (i just ignored the warnings that ‘zimbrasrv.mydomain.org’ can’t be found in the nameservers ), has this fancy java enabled web interface. As i told before, i didn’t test all the shit it can do, but i will this weekend. My linux administrator opinion was MDaemon. Right…a windows server. But it’s stable, has almost all the features they want (i don’t know about the mail lists being administrable by people, but i’ll dig more about this). Anyway..looks like a good idea to me at least.

So, this weekend i’ll test zimbra. I have MDaemon trial installed at work….and i don’t wanna test exchange. I hope i’ll make the best decision about this, because it’s going to take a long time to implement, and probably few years before someone gets another good idea about the mail solution in this company i work for.

So…next time, i’ll get back with some details about zimbra server – open source edition. Btw, while surfing the zimbra page, i just discovered “zimbra desktop”, some e-mail client application that wants to replace outlook, thunderbird and all those monsters. The good part about that application is that it let’s you get yahoo mail locally, for which now i use some webmail plugin from thunderbird. The bad part is ..that is a big fancy java..all the java and ajax you want, zimbra desktop has it. Personally, i hate it. Hope the mail server will impress me.

Yeap, just got moved from http://vusi666.wordpress.com. I thought it’s enough for vusi666…because every single mothefucka was asking me about the “vusi” part and the “666″ (isn’t it obvious???). Let’s say that i got a more professional name and look…i guess..

Well..just enjoy this new shit..

Unfortunately, s-a stins…si de cand am aflat..am tot cautat filmulete cu el pe youtube..
Asta e cel mai tare..

cum pula mea se asteapta unii sa administrez niste servere de windows cand 90% din firma are parola de administrator pe serverele alea???

bag pula..