Friday, 30 January, 2004. 12:48:59 PM
Today we're leaving the Sector7 offices moving into an IBM facility. It'll be
a few miles closer to me, and there's a number of places to eat nearby.
/n
Tuesday, 27 January, 2004. 10:56:44 PM
The virus attack continues, but my spam filter has figured out how to classify
all the bounce messages.
/n
Monday, 26 January, 2004. 11:13:02 PM
I'm off to Atlanta for the day tommorow. Fly out in the morning, fly back in
the evening. They just had a snowstorm, so I'll probably get stuck in traffic.
/n
Monday, 26 January, 2004. 07:22:49 PM
The W32.Novarg.A@mm virus is dumping all kinds of crap into my mailbox,
and spamprobe hasn't figured out how to recognise it yet. My spam error
rate is very high today because of it.
/n
Monday, 26 January, 2004. 09:53:47 AM
I picked up my Sun model 911 external hard drive enclosure on Friday and
spent a few hours this weekend modifying it into a Mini ITX computer case.
The back of the box use to have a fan right in the center, and that has been
removed. New holes were cut on the lower left for the ports on the back
of the motherboard, and on the upper right for an 80mm Thermaltake variable
speed cooling fan. At the lowest speed, the fan only emits 17 db of sound, so
it shouldn't be audible. The old holes are being filled and shaped with
Bondo. I've never used Bondo before. It's really neat stuff. The cutting
wheel on the Dremel slices right through it without melting and it sands
to a very smooth finish. I should be able to make the back panel look very
nice.
/n
Saturday, 24 January, 2004. 11:08:10 PM
Opportunity is down and on the surface of Mars. The signal from the spacecraft
continues to be strong during the bouncing and rollout, unlike the sister
spacecraft Spirit.
/n
Friday, 23 January, 2004. 12:54:58 PM
Bob Keeshan, aka. Captain Kangaroo died today. He was 76. I used to watch
his show in the 1970's every morning from 8-9 AM on WKZO. Photo is of Captain
Kangaroo and Mr. Moose.
/n
Thursday, 22 January, 2004. 05:26:20 PM
A source for xfree86 4.3 that looks like it might be good is
http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/.
/n
Thursday, 22 January, 2004. 05:18:28 PM
There's possibly a version of xfree86 4.3 at backports.org. Also,
maybe at boisson.homeip.net.
/n
Thursday, 22 January, 2004. 05:08:41 PM
Whatever happened to http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/? That package source
used to have a backport of xfree86 4.3, but it disappeared after the Debian
server hack. I waited for it to come back, but it hasn't. There's no
information on the net about it either. I mailed mmagallo about it, so
we'll see what he says. My Thinkpad T30 uses that backport to support the
ATI video chip.
/n
Thursday, 22 January, 2004. 01:26:14 PM
Happy New Year. It's the Chinese New Year.
/n
Wednesday, 21 January, 2004. 03:46:41 PM
New photos added in the December 2003 folder.
/n
Tuesday, 20 January, 2004. 08:19:03 PM
The webmail system is implemented on my website now. It performs the basic
mail reading functions, but lacks some features. I wish that it
integrated into the CSS framework that the rest of the site uses, and could
access other mutt mailboxes. It would also be nice if it had some
scriptability so I could make a one click function to mark a mail as spam
and move it into the spam mailbox.
/n
Tuesday, 20 January, 2004. 01:54:12 PM
All Debian mail handling programs are required by policy to lock mailboxes
using the liblockfile library. That library implements NFS safe file
locking mechanisms.
/n
Tuesday, 20 January, 2004. 01:34:53 PM
No need to write my own webmail program, I'll just install a POP server that
works with the mbox mail format and use an existing webmail program.
/n
Saturday, 17 January, 2004. 02:01:19 AM
Most of the parts I'm collecting for the new server have arrived and were
tested last night. The power supply has an external laptop style 12 volt
brick, and a small circuit board to convert voltages. With one hard drive,
the system will require about 35 watts of power at peak, two hard drives
will make that about 47 watts. The power supply is rated at 55 wats, so
that gives a margin of 8 watts, or almost 15 percent. At hard drive idle
loads, usage will drop to about 37 watts. The mini-itx (VIA ME6000) board
itself uses about 23 watts peak.
The motherboard, power converter, and two hard drives will be built into
a Sun 911 external hard drive case. Two of the hard drive bays will be removed,
leaving two and space for the other parts.
/n
Thursday, 15 January, 2004. 01:02:54 PM
A spammer is flooding my mailbox with hundreds of copies of the same spam.
Seems like he harvested my random e-mail addresses page. Spamprobe is
catching every single one of them and filing them into the bitbucket where
they belong.
/n
Thursday, 15 January, 2004. 12:43:49 PM
I've decided to build a web interface to my e-mail system so I can read my
personal mail from any web browser. Like almost everything else on my
webserver, I'll be building the interface from scratch. The web readers
that are available require a POP or IMAP server to be set up, which I
don't need. I use mutt to read my mail when I'm logged in at home, so
there's already a set of mail folders available to use. The interface will
be written in Python, integrated into Apache with mod-python.
/n
Friday, 09 January, 2004. 11:45:38 AM
I used to think that the old Teletubbies show was pretty good. Now that I
have a daughter, I am pleased that a psychedelic replacement is coming
to PBS.
"Boohbah" looks like it's going to be a really trippy show.
/n
Thursday, 08 January, 2004. 04:27:06 PM
A second suspected case of SARS was reported in China. Police have raided
the newspaper that reported the first confirmed case of the year.
/n
Wednesday, 07 January, 2004. 08:23:20 PM
My VIA ME6000 motherboard arrived today. All that is needed to complete my
new server is some DDR266 memory and a power supply. This new server will
replace the Celeron 300 that I now have with a smaller and quieter system.
/n
Tuesday, 06 January, 2004. 11:27:15 PM
Piles of new photos have been added, scanned with the new scanner. They were
put under November and December. All were scanned directly from the negatives.
/n
Monday, 05 January, 2004. 10:02:30 PM
My new Epson Perfection 2450 scanner is here. It's USB, much faster than
my old Umax 200p parallel port scanner. It is 2400 DPI resolution. It has
a film scanner that can handle negatives up to 4 x 9 inches. Most other
scanners can handle only 35mm film. Now I can scan all the 120 negatives
from my antique cameras. But best of all, it's fully compatible with Linux.
Epson shares hardware information with the scanner driver team. That kind
of hardware openness has been rewarded with some of my money.
/n
Monday, 05 January, 2004. 02:42:19 PM
I've implemented the Weighted Private Block List on my mail system.
All spam that I receive has the source IP addresses extracted and sent to the
WPBL server. The WPBL project is
here.
As soon as those guys set up my account I will be able to contribute my
IP addresses.
/n
Monday, 05 January, 2004. 11:03:50 AM
I've been getting a lot of spams such as this:
From setlzs@china.com Sat Jan 03 14:48:11 2004
Return-path:
Envelope-to: slashdot@pdrap.org
Delivery-date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:48:11 -0600
Received: from adsl-68-123-75-91.dsl.renocs.pacbell.net ([68.123.75.91])
by oxygen.pdrap.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
id 1Acsgs-0006kc-00
for ; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:48:11 -0600
Received: from [68.123.75.91] by e-hostzz.comIP with HTTP;
Sat, 03 Jan 2004 02:42:10 -0600
From: "Pettit"
To: slashdot@pdrap.org
Subject: Re: NMY, had stuck itself
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19
X-Originating-IP: [e-hostzz.netIP]
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:43:10 +0500
Reply-To: "Cruz"
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="05252218366458568"
Message-Id:
X-SpamProbe: SPAM 1.0000000 a7f13c5bb96d70c491e002d5377cbc6a
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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maledict harrington modulate shay extemporaneous
These spams appear to be a sort of Bayesian poisoning, but it's unlikely
to work. They used to get through my spam filters with some regularity,
but now they are trapped by my filters easily. I've noticed absolutely
no false positives because of the attempted poisoning. This particular
mail orginates from a machine at IP 68.123.75.91, which is on the pacbell
network. It's a Windows machine, probably compromised by the spammers.
Increasingly, spammers are organizing themselves in an attempt to get
around spam filters, and to suppress their enemies. Their tactics are
sometimes illegal DOS attacks, which would make spam houses a new type
of organized crime. Another issue of concern is that sending out spam
can generate large amounts of cash, with no inventory required. The IRS
would find it difficult to correlate purchased inventory with business
sales to detect bogus entries in the accounting books. Spam businesses
are probably the best way to launder money. We don't need any new laws
on the books to stop spammers; we just need to enforce the organized
crime, tax, terrorism, and racketeering laws that we already have.
/n
Monday, 05 January, 2004. 11:00:45 AM
SARS has reemerged in China. A a 32-year-old television producer from
Guangdong province has been hospitalized with a confirmed case. China is
planning a mass slaughter of 10,000 civet cats to cut the disease off
at the source, but that could destroy evidence that the WHO needs to
track the source of the disease.
/n
Sunday, 04 January, 2004. 06:32:16 PM
Paul Graham's article "What You Can't Say."
/n
Sunday, 04 January, 2004. 03:54:19 PM
The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
/n
Sunday, 04 January, 2004. 12:08:51 AM
GM isn't the only company that takes a really nice concept car and turns it
into an unexciting production model. Ford did that with the new Mustang. Got
the photo off of Fark.
/n
Saturday, 03 January, 2004. 10:51:38 PM
The signal from the Mars Rover A (Spirit) was just reported. It is down and safe on the surface of Mars.
/n
Saturday, 03 January, 2004. 09:24:21 PM
First spam of the New Year
Envelope-to: slashdot@pdrap.org
Delivery-date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:14:56 -0600
From: Super Adventures
To: slashdot@pdrap.org
Subject: Greetings from Super Adventures
Reply-To: info@super-adventures.com
X-SpamProbe: GOOD 0.0000000 18fa2a2fcac7bcb709bd7245c0f05a6b
Super Adventures wishes you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
New unforgettable experiences for you in 2004:
- Fly to the border of space and see the curvature of Earth.
- Learn to pilot a MiG fighter plane with a top-gun pilot.
- Experience weightlessness like a cosmonaut.
- Visit Baikonur cosmodrome to see the launch of "Soyuz" spacecraft.
- Drive Formula 1 race car.
- Explore Sahara desert in Sahara Adventures.
- Learn secrets of ancient Egypt.
- And other incredible adventures!
Sincerely,
Super Adventures Team
www.super-adventures.com
/n
Friday, 02 January, 2004. 11:34:29 PM
Total spams blocked in 2003 number over 12000. I have already received 130 this
year.
/n
