Monthly Archives: May 2006

500 Hour Test of Windows Vista

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… Read More »

Two-Tier Internet

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… Read More »

Window resizing and the web

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… Read More »

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

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…

Foiling Robots : A Response

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… Read More »

Backup and Recovery

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… Read More »

Problem Solved

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… Read More »

homegrown mail server + gmail

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… Read More »

Mail Server Update

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) – worksreject/drop virus messages – workscc virus to postmaster@$mydomain – workscheck for spam (spamassassin) – workscc spam to postmaster@$mydomain – worksrewrite_header Subject ***SPAM*** – BUSTED amavisd.conf

I hate mail servers

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 [email protected]Read More »