Welcome to Workaround.org

I'm a system and network administrator and partly a programmer in my day job. And in my spare time I work on Debian packages and web services, stay on IRC, write articles or learn new stuff. So over time I have tried a lot of software, encountered a lot of problems and found a lot of solutions. To save my findings for others I have created a number of articles here on workaround.org. Your feedback is welcome on the articles - just add your comment.

Christoph Haas

ISPmail tutorials

The famous "ISP-style" tutorials live here. Learn how to integrate your email services using Postfix, Dovecot/Courier IMAP/POP3 and MySQL backend on a Debian server just like your favorite mail/web hosting provider.

IRC

  • IRC is a great medium for getting instant help (at least on the freenode IRC network). I have collected some tips about Getting help on IRC to help you get help instead of getting barbecued.
  • knoba's factoids
    I run a bot called knoba (short for knowledge base) on the freenode IRC network. Two channels I visit frequently are #postfix and #squid. So I have fed the bot with lots of factoids that you can query using !foobar in the channel. These are the factoids understood in #squid and #postfix. Please don't play with the bot publicly. Send it a "/msg knoba help" and learn how it works.