geoff
wibbled on Friday 01 January 2010 13:09

In message . com, Jules
writes
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:16:11 +0000, Dave Osborne wrote:
No disrespect to Harry, but generally speaking, you should not clean a
computer with a domestic airline, as the airline will most likely
contain water vapour and may contain oil and grit - none of which are
good for the innards of a computer.

Potentially. Ditto with vacuums which (depending on setup) might have
static issues; if using a vacuum then someone else's comment about using a
brush to brush dirt toward the nozzle is a good one.

Following on from thoughts in another thread

Who has been meaning to, but hasn't got round to ...

backing up the important data on their computer ?



My oldest computer (Debian Unstable) that I built over 7 years ago just
started frying one disk (1 of 4 Seagates).

It was my backup server and exim email server. It's being re-burnt in,
failing disk will be removed and the rest reinstalled with Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS)
and used again as a backup box (Still got 0.5TB storage).

That and my old bent exim config was the last element of my systems that was
****ing me off.

Finally, I almost understand my email config(!) having moved and redone it
on another server. Managed to integrate DSPAM (antispam with learning) into
the IMAP server (Dovecot) so whenever a user drags missed spam to the Junk
folder, the IMAP server triggers a learning cycle on that mail. Ditto in
reverse for mail being miss classed as SPAM. That's the way it should be.

DIY, but not as you know it Jim

--
Tim Watts

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