February 13th, 2007
I added another of my possibly-useful-to-people-elsewhere scripts to my code directory. At some point I should round up everything that I intended to share with the world, code wise, and dump it in there. If nothing else, if the wayback machine is working it means a free backup – I think. Or is that only for html?
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February 13th, 2007
Does anyone know of a really kick-ass free web-based calandering package?
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February 12th, 2007
mysql> select is_spam,avg(processing_time) from spam group by is_spam;
+———+———————-+
| is_spam | avg(processing_time) |
+———+———————-+
| 0 | 3.3227 |
| 1 | 3.9323 |
+———+———————-+
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February 12th, 2007
For those of you with spamassassin and old maildirs lying around full of spam, we have a solution for you – sheer’s excessively overwritten but possibly still buggy spam cleaning script. Feel free to peruse/critique.. it’s in my code directory. If you want to use the optional mysql logging (helps speed things up when the process gets interrupted) you’ll also need to import spam.sql, included
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February 12th, 2007
I’m thinking of writing a RIA application that is a interface to search engines like Google that makes it easier to search for things, bookmark results, keep results archived, etc.
Does anyone have any features that they’d want in a search engine front end? Is anyone else interested in such a application? It would run inside a browser as a .swf, although it would probably depend on a LAMP backend..
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February 12th, 2007
I’m wondering how much of the format of modern dance/techno music is derivitave of the format of soundtracker modules.
ST-mods had, by default, a 64 line frame, and they liked to reuse patterns – ‘songs’ were built up by tying these 64 line frames togeather. By definition, you only had 4 channels of transmit to work with, and generally you were best off sampling a entire drum loop. The format begged to have modern dance music made out of it..
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February 12th, 2007
I had forgotten how much fun st-mods are.. I have quite the collection from my amiga days, and I found the place (finally) where I had backed up my Amiga’s hard drive to.
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February 12th, 2007
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February 9th, 2007
Well, I’ve been testing out a new mail server by teeing all my email to both it and the current live mail server.
The results are:
1) On the new mail server, one spam message leaked through the spam filter. On the old mail server, seventeen did.
2) The new mail server is approximately ten times faster (in terms of searching the inbox, opening folders, etc). It is in fact fast enough that it is practical to search all my old email.
3) It is now difficult to convince myself to open the old mail server.
So, I need to, sometime soon (possibly as soon as this weekend) shut down all access to both servers for a few hours so I can copy everyone’s mail over to the new machine.
This will nearly conclude my efforts to retire Gateway. Once this is done, all that needs to be done is to set up another server to take over DNS handling for Gateway – I will probably use one of my cobolt Raqs if I can get nsd to compile on them (which I probably can).
Also I need to reload the OS on my AIX machine (it came configured for graphics/3d work, which isn’t what I have in mind) and get it on the network.
Be nice to me or I’ll post a link that downloads Mischief Committee to your cell phone as a ringtone.
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February 9th, 2007
Every once in a while, I forgive a spam message for getting through my spam filter.
This would be a example: (from today’s inbox)
Good afternoon pal!
If you want to have a sex
But you have some problems
Do not worry just relax
We have already solved them!
Down our Cialis pills
Wait for 30 minutes
Look at her pretty tits
And you will be listed in the book by Guinnes
Everything will be ok
Bring her lots of pleasure
You can do it every day
And have a mind-blowing leisure
Buy Cialis here!
Good luck
I mean, it rhymes, it has some of that ‘all of your base are belong to us’, and apparently it even fools SpamAssassin. If I get 50 of them I will be annoyed, but I can deal with one.
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