I just went thru the review of Vista over at Toms Hardware and I have to say that I’m not impressed. I think I could have summed up the review in about two lines.
“We, uhm, made a cool theme that you can turn off if you like the old look.”
“We made a copy of Firefox called IE 7.”
I’d say save yourself some time, download an XP theme app & Firefox and you’re pretty much there. Better yet, download Ubuntu 6.06!
I’m sure I’ll get some comments stating my bias. Check it out for yourself.
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I’ve been reading recently about the Two-Tier Internet Bill currently being considered and I wonder if Congress & the rest of the country realize how much they are absolutely ruining the internet?!
If more of this crap comes to fruition I will definitely look into moving to Europe.
If you want to read more about the Two-Tier Internet garbage find a long list here. If anyone has/finds a link that allows us to email the decision makers please post that. Let’s let them know how we feel about it.
I just wanted to vent about one of my biggest pet peeves in life. This drives me crazier than just about anything else. Worse than people who don’t use their blinker!
What makes me absolutely furious and instantly blacklists the site for all eternity is when a site tries to resize my browser window! It should be illegal and the webmaster should recieve a brutal beating! Leave my freakin’ browser window alone!
If anyone knows how to combat this in a firefox setting or plugin I would very much appreciate it. I never want to see my browser resized again.
PC World Magazine has an article about the top 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. I thought I’d forward it on.
1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
to read more check it out here…
In response to Doran’s post about foolin’ the robots I thought I’d share my strategy for the same. It seems to work pretty well & it can be customized to make it even more difficult for spam-hackers to foil. (disclaimer: I can’t take credit for making it up, just thought I’d share.)
For my method I use javascript. I call the javascript file in the header and then call the email using ‘< a href=“javascript:doMyeMail();>‘. This, of course, points to the function in the javascript file & renders the email.
If you’d like to take a look at one implementation check out my javascript file. You can see there how I’ve used it for multiple email addresses and basically what it does. Enjoy!
I’ve been playing for a while with backup & recovery options for my webserver. For a while now I’ve been using a homegrown bash script that I created, which worked fine, but did have its limitations. Today I found something that I hope will give me everything I need.
Mondo Rescue looks like it should give me the fullblown machine image that I’m looking for. The only thing I haven’t found just yet (mainly due to lack of searching) is the option to automate the process. I want to make a daily complete image of the entire machine. Mondo will do that & pack it all into a nice .iso which also doubles as a bootable restore CD.
If anyone has experience with mondo or automating the process please let me know. Otherwise, my work here is done… for now.
UPDATE: I have just sucessfully run a homemade bash script that automates all of my backup needs.? As soon as I add the entry into cron I will have nightly mondo images, mysqldumps and rync’d results to a remote machine.? If anyone is interested just drop me a line for the script.
Big wave to the good people over on #amavis.? I managed to finally solve my issue with amavis + spamassassin.? In the near future I will be writing a detailed howto for postfix + spamhaus.org rbl / xbl + amavis-new + clamav + spamassassin.
Hopefully this’ll be a help to me (if I ever have to rebuild again) and a help to anyone else wanting a very detailed mail server.? …if only I weren’t so particular, this would have been done weeks ago.
I’ve been thinking more and more about spam recently since the whole blue-frog fiasco. I still get piles of spam in my gmail box and I’ve been working on spam filtering for my home mail server. I feel my home mail server is much more spam-resistant than my gmail box, but how can I combine the both?
Anyone have any suggestions on how I can continue to use my @gmail.com address & web interface but also filter it thru my home server? I’m assuming it can be done via forwarding but I’m not sure how the steps..
What a pain in the butt spam is.
Upon request I’ve attached a link to my amavisd.conf. If anyone can see what I’ve missed I’d appreciate it.
What I’m looking for:
check for virus (clamav) – works
reject/drop virus messages – works
cc virus to postmaster@$mydomain – works
check for spam (spamassassin) – works
cc spam to postmaster@$mydomain – works
rewrite_header Subject ***SPAM*** – BUSTED
I’ve spent the day fighting with my stupid peice of crap mail server (yes, the same I’ve been complaining about for weeks). Everything is processing fine, its just one little thing that I can’t seem to get working.
I’m using postfix + amavis + spamassassin. The process recognizes spam and sends a notice to postmaster@domain.tld but it JUST WONT ‘rewrite_header Subject ***SPAM***’ like its supposed to. It seems simple enough–I’ve done it before–I just can’t seem to figure how to do it again. If spam gets thru I want the subject to be rewritten loudly as ***SPAM***.
If anyone has any suggestions I’d appreciate it. I’m throwin’ my hands in the air at this point. If I have to read the amavisd.conf file one more time I’ll claw my eyes out.