Some Piratefish Updates for Ubuntu 9
Well, Ubuntu 9 has been out for some time now, and the smoke has cleared - and there's definitely some work to be done on the next version of the Piratefish. I'm going to be developing this on VMware - building a Piratefish this way has some serious promise, but also it offers some nice screen capture abilities as well as advanced scaling options.
Right now as it stands, the old instructions still hold up, however there's indications that Chapter 6 is getting long in the tooth - the permissions structure may have changed quite a bit, so a re-write is in the works. This re-write will be free for all existing users, as usual.
As for the latest updates, instructions on removing AppArmor, correcting ClamAV integration with MailScanner and a little bit about changing where roots email delivers are all included in the latest batch of updates.
As for features in the new version of Piratefish, I'm thinking of including instructions on integrating Splunk into the new Piratefish as a reporting engine and perhaps a dashboard - many of the machines running Piratefish are more powerful than ever, and using this extra power for advanced monitoring and reporting appeals to me.
My experience at the identity management startup Symplified has gotten my brain dipped into the potential of cloud-based computing, and the option of building Piratefish in the cloud is also something to consider - though at Amazon's EC2 pricing, making a Piratefish run there isn't necessarily a feasible way to prevent spam for a network in the long run unless you're a well funded corporate entity. A complete mail server would be an interesting cloud app though - and the EC2 cloud is some pretty cool stuff for new tech.
On a slightly different note, I've also begun work on another book idea - though this will be on an entirely different technical track than the Piratefish, and will hopefully be something more fit for print and binding. More information will be made available when things near completion - right now getting the next Piratefish out for this fall is more important.
Right now as it stands, the old instructions still hold up, however there's indications that Chapter 6 is getting long in the tooth - the permissions structure may have changed quite a bit, so a re-write is in the works. This re-write will be free for all existing users, as usual.
As for the latest updates, instructions on removing AppArmor, correcting ClamAV integration with MailScanner and a little bit about changing where roots email delivers are all included in the latest batch of updates.
As for features in the new version of Piratefish, I'm thinking of including instructions on integrating Splunk into the new Piratefish as a reporting engine and perhaps a dashboard - many of the machines running Piratefish are more powerful than ever, and using this extra power for advanced monitoring and reporting appeals to me.
My experience at the identity management startup Symplified has gotten my brain dipped into the potential of cloud-based computing, and the option of building Piratefish in the cloud is also something to consider - though at Amazon's EC2 pricing, making a Piratefish run there isn't necessarily a feasible way to prevent spam for a network in the long run unless you're a well funded corporate entity. A complete mail server would be an interesting cloud app though - and the EC2 cloud is some pretty cool stuff for new tech.
On a slightly different note, I've also begun work on another book idea - though this will be on an entirely different technical track than the Piratefish, and will hopefully be something more fit for print and binding. More information will be made available when things near completion - right now getting the next Piratefish out for this fall is more important.
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