After having read a couple of time of it, I decided to give Last.FM a try.

I quickly found out that I can pick a station with "similar" music to a given artist. I've been listening to the lastfm://artist/Gotan%20Project/similarartists stream - aka "Similar music to Gotan Project".

This has largely been a success. A couple of songs came in that made me quickly press the "skip" button (I love this feature) - no, I don't want to hear a christmas song today. But I've heard a couple of songs for the first time that I really like.

Pyroman is now hosted on alioth, and uses Debians subversion server.

I just did a new pyroman release, version 0.1.2. This is just an interim beta release, a version 0.2 will follow soon.

New in this version is:

Detailed error reporting: when a firewall rule is rejected by iptables (e.g. because you specified an invalid port range pyroman didn't detect), it will give you the corresponding filename and line number!

Automatic rollback: Pyroman will undo any changes to the firewall if either any rule is rejected by iptables, an exception in pyroman occurs or the user fails to accept the changes within a configurable time limit (e.g. because he just broke his ssh connection...)

So pyroman is even cooler now! ;-)

On the TODO list: add a no-confirm switch for use at system bootup, code cleanups and a iptables-version test, so you can add rules that need a specific iptables version (such as string matches for bittorrent).

Dear Lazyweb,
I recently noticed that some people e.g. don't know the "mailq" command, which is fairly standard for email servers to print the current mail queue. Which is an essential command if you want to debug your mailserver.

So I was looking for a good tutorial to recommend on "running" an email server, and had a hard time finding one... there is a large list of online books, but as far as I can tell, they don't even teach such basic things such as mailq, do they (I of course only checked those I could read online).

Nor could I find this information easily accessible on the Postfix homepage. But there are a couple of things you should know at least where to find. Including showing whats stuck in your mail queue, why, and how to remove these messages.

I guess this applies to many many things. Everbody assumes the basics to be clear, and just talks about how to pick certain configuration options...