Creating your own calendar server.

“I love my little calendar girl” Ever since I first put together my own e-mail server, I’ve been looking for something to “round-out” the offering with centralised calendar functionality using the CalDAV protocol – my own “Groupware” solution so to speak! The criteria was fairly simple: I wanted it to serve of the Linux platform… Read more »

Monitoring host availability using Nagios.

I just want it to work! It was with a due sense of urgency that I stumbled into my Christmas break this year, like a marathon runner barely making it over the finish line. Oh, I thought I was prepared, I had my remote access after all… what else would I need? Two days in,… Read more »

Using CUPS to share printers across your network.

Motivation Most things in my house are networked so it was with some disappointment that we had to replace a laser printer at home but couldn’t afford one with a network card in it. Keeping the printer in the garage away from “sticky fingers” meant that having it connected to the network was imperitive. I… Read more »

Setting up a mail server using Postfix on Ubuntu 10.04

Introduction. Background. I had already build a VoIP system using CentOS (another Unix-like OS) as a base with trixbox CE providing the VoIP telephony. It was a fun project and for all the same reasons I wanted to do something similar for our messaging. I naturally (or some may argue un-naturally) started thinking about Microsoft… Read more »