How To Fix Postfix Warning: dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled

October 23rd, 2007 Postfix is an excellent and powerful mail transfer agent (MTA) like sendmail. You can configure postfix to send outbound mails directly (default) or relay it to another MTA, which could be postfix or sendmail.

November 3rd, 2007 We are tweaking our postfix servers to offer maximum spam protection upfront with helo checks, header checks, blacklist checks, RBL's and more. So far my daily spam count has dropped from about 3000-7000 spams / day to about 15-35 spams per day.

November 18th, 2007 I used to receive around 5,000-7,000 spams daily on angsuman [at] taragana [dot] com email which is publicly available on the internet. It was consuming too many productive hours daily to fight spam.

August 8th, 2008 GoDaddy is a arguably the largest domain name register. Yet it does something which I am not very comfortable with - make profit off your domain names and does that without your explicit permission.

October 6th, 2007 Domain Name Servers resolves domain names to IP addresses. However how can you resolve the domain names of the domain name servers? For examples our domain name servers are at ns1.taragana.com and ns2.taragana.com.

October 14th, 2007 Top level domain names like taragana.com or microsoft.com are available for a low price of under 10$ per year. However if you do not want to spend even that amount then you get a top level domain name (like angsuman.co.nr or www.angsuman.co.nr) absolutely free.

May 15th, 2007 I faced an extremely weird problem of ghost DNS lookups on machines configured as NFS clients. It took quite an effort to solve it.

April 20th, 2006 Joe Balestrino discusses the value of subdomains. The four key points are: Subdomains are treated as a domain as far as developing a new site is concerned.

March 25th, 2008 Browse to http://your.blog.domain/wp-admin/options.php Replace your.blog.domain with your own blog domain like for example blog.taragana.com for this blog.

November 12th, 2007 AdBlock Plus is a controversial Firefox plugin to prevent ads from displaying on web pages. There is a simple procedure to detect (and take appropriate action) AdBlock Plus.

October 6th, 2007 I am changing my domain registrar of one of my domains from Network Solutions to GoDaddy. Changing domain registrar is definitely a non-trivial process for any non-web-savvy person.

December 10th, 2008 I was amazed to find this GoDaddy coupon which allowed me to save over 42% for a .net domain registration for 2 years. It works for .net and .org domain registrations and for any number of years.

November 1st, 2004 After 8 months I restarted by old faithful PC with a new internet provider (Reliance). I found that I can access websites using their IP address, yet cannot access them using their name like www.yahoo.com.

October 27th, 2008 The best way to suppress unchecked or other warnings is to fix the cause of the warning. However in some rare cases, the warning is incorrect and there is no logical way to solve it without compromising the intended functionality.

November 30th, 2005 As you probably know XmlHttpRequest only works if the request is made to the same web server from which the page was fetched (same origin). Here is a way to communicate across sub-domains using XmlHttpRequest without resorting to reverse proxying.