Friday, 18 August, 2006. 12:08:29 PM
Finally some common sense about the recent terror scares.
Wednesday, 16 August, 2006. 03:11:42 PM
I have a new Seagate 320G hard drive and external drive enclosure ordered from Newegg. The 80g in my desktop machine is going into the external enclosure, and the new drive is going into my main desktop computer.
Wednesday, 16 August, 2006. 06:43:40 AM
The implementation of the no-liquids policy at airports is stupid. If you take liquids to the security line, they make you discard them in a trash can. Seems like these binary explosives which are causing the current panic could easily mix in the trash can. There's large numbers of people standing around in the security lines, and plenty of glass containers in the trash which would produce a lot of fast-moving debris. We don't have a system of security, we have a system for bothering people.
Monday, 14 August, 2006. 08:39:20 PM
My blocklist implementation seems to have cut the spam reaching my server by about half. I get about 4500 spam messages a day now.
Wednesday, 09 August, 2006. 11:45:08 AM
Joe Lieberman is still going on and on about how his server was hacked. If his site really was hacked, then the other 70+ sites which share the same server as his would also have gone down. The error message probably would have said something other than to contact the billing department. In truth, Lieberman was so cheap that he picked a tiny hosting plan, and when he ran out of bandwidth because of the predicatably heavy election day traffic, the hosting company suspended his account. What an idiot.
Friday, 04 August, 2006. 01:06:09 PM
Republicans are spending the money over there so they don't have to spend the money over here.
Wednesday, 02 August, 2006. 01:36:44 PM
I've implemented an experimental blocklist which just blocks IP addresses from which I have received spam. Limited tests show that it will block perhaps 20% of my spam at the most. I have another blocklist which may boost that by another 20%.
Tuesday, 01 August, 2006. 10:24:31 PM
I received more that 190,000 spam messages at the pdrap.org domain last month. The percentage of false negatives is very very low, but I'm still getting quite a number of spams through. The sheer number of spam messages that I receive is starting to degrade my DSL connection which runs at about 1.1 megabits per second. I'm going to implement a blocklist solution to drop the connections from spam IP's immediately.