Redhat has released Fedora Core 3!
As a service to those who read this blog (and others), I am providing copies of the i386 version of the Fedora Core 3 DVD for the nominal fee of $5 (covers media and postage).
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I’ve been getting hit with a lot of comment spam recently … pain in the a–.
I found a nifty plugin, however, that let’s me dump comment spam based on certian criteria. Pretty nice.
So far it has worked well … although I had some confusion when I was testing it … because I happened to get some new spam just before I implemented it. I thought the test spam had just been held for moderation instead of being dumped alltogether.
A bit of research, and another test, showed that the plugin was working fine.
As a mailing list operator, I found this item quite interesting …
Rolex wants spam removed from list archives.
It has come to Rolex’s attention that your company is the Bulletin
Board operator for http://lists.freeswan.org. Your Web Page enables the
following vendors to advertise and conduct sales of counterfeit and
infringing Rolex watches bearing the Rolex Trademarks:Vendor Exact Location of Counterfeit Rolex
Watch Posting on
http://lists.freeswan.org Web Site/
Bulletin Board
Now two things immediately come to mind about this…
Obviously this kind of thing isn’t going to effect me … as non-subscribers are not allowed to post on my lists. But the total lack of knowledge on the part of Rolex is disturbing.
I’ve created a new blog … I’m hoping it will provide a place for iSeries folks to share their thoughts in a more ‘journalistic’ sense.
Not much activity yet … but I have high hopes.
Check it out when you get a chance … http://imho.midrange.com.
This post has been moved to the midrange.com IMHO blog.
I just spent 2 hours helping a co-worker resolve a database connectivity problem. The software we were trying to install (our own product, as it happens) kept telling us it was having a problem connecting to the SQL server database.
We tried to install the software three times … each time it failed with same error.
Finally I looked at the database name we were trying to use … the my co-worker was telling me to use was ‘qa-db3278’ … but the database he created was ‘qa_db3278’.
Well of course it couldn’t create the tables … the database we were telling it to create them in didn’t exist.
Oh well 🙂
Google to unveil desktop search | CNET News.com
[Google] has created Google Desktop Search, a thin-client application that lets people retrieve e-mail, Microsoft Office documents, AOL chat logs and a history of Web pages previously viewed, all via a Web browser.
This sounds kind of cool. I’ll be interested to see what they do with it.
A while ago Alta-vista (I think) created something similar … but it never took off.
I am a big fan of hardwood … I like the feel, look, even the smell, of items made out of quality wood. Wood floors, tables, shelves, etc.
I saw a link to Swedx on the Google ad’s for one of my other blog posts.
You can get LCD monitors, USB mice, and USB keyboards all made out of hardwood.
They are kind of pricey … but very nice looking.
The other day, while upgrading SpamAssassin, I was watching the maillog scroll past.
I noticed that AOL rejected some of my mail … indicating a URL that I should visit for information.
Turns out some AOL subscriber had reported mail from my server for TOS violations.
Obviously in the mail log there is not useful information about who did the reporting … so I visited the URL. There was information available on how to sign up to be whitelisted by the AOL mail servers and participate in the TOS ‘feedback’ loop. This is where AOL will send a specific email address (an abuse address, generally) messages that are reported as TOS violations.
So I signed up for this and got confirmation that my servers were accepted.
I figure that the person who is reporting the list messages to TOS just wants to get unsubscribed from the list (and can’t read enough english to notice that unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of every list message).
So today I got my first feedback loop message.
Unfortunately, there’s no indication in the reported message as to WHO reported it to TOS.
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DSLKnowItAll had a hillarious link in his blog to Cartoons inspired by spam contents.
Some of them are … disturbing … but most of them are funny.
Of course, with the recent release of SpamAssassin 3.0, I don’t get as much spam anymore. Even less than I got with the previous version of SpamAssassin.