I’m currently downloading a very big file (15GB) over a slow and unstable connection, so I was looking for a way to resume the download if the connection stalled or if I had to disconnect my notebook for some time.
I ended up using good old wget with the following options:

wget -c –tries=0 –retry-connrefused –timeout=2 –wait=1 [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure to setup a mailserver for my private domains. Since we had a very good experience with postfix and dovecot at work, I was looking for a simple tutorial on howto setup postfix for smtp and dovecot for imap (I did some mail server setups with qmail and postfix before and [...]

Today I tried to install Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 Desktop Edition 64bit on my Macbook Pro 4.1 next to Mac OSX 10.5.6 Leopard and had to overcome some obstacles which I want to document here.
First I tried to use the Bootcamp Assistant to resize my existing Mac OSX partition, but I got an error about some [...]