Stone wall and leaves
Date: 11/14/2006
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Thursday, 24 March 2005 |
Talk about 100% quality nerdy awesomeness! The solar death ray is where it's at. Warning! If you feel sad when rubber duckies get the death ray click elsewhere.
Also, Wednesday March 30th I will be giving a talk at the Nashville Linux Users Group. If the talk is bad, I hope they don't use the solar death ray on me.
"SpamAssassin and Me: A love that needs no V1AAGRRA"
Every open source addict remembers their first fix of the application that hooked them, for me it was SpamAssassin. From the first invocation as a perl script in single user mode to running as a daemon on systems processing 25,000 messages a day SpamAssassin has proven flexible, effective, and scalable. The presentation will focus on understanding how SpamAssassin works and how it can be integrated into just about any email system. The presentation will draw from my experience implementing SpamAssassin on a few personal servers and sneaking two Linux SMTP gateways into an all Microsoft shop at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Tuesday, 22 March 2005 |
I was poking around the HTTP Refferrer module for this site and discovered I am turning up in some very unusual search results. Here are the results...
I am impressed at how up to date the major search engines are getting. The galactica blog entry was from just a few weeks ago.
Enterprise Linux on the Cheap
I learned about Whitebox Linux a whle back. It is (er, was) a free clone of RedHat Enterprise Linux. Looks like it has been superceeded by the more aptly named CentOS. On the bright side, it looks like migrating is as simple as updating your yum config.
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Monday, 28 February 2005 |
All moved in. The final box count was 149. A few practical notes on moving - Two Men and a Truck are great movers, Home Depot is a good source for cheap boxes ($2 for medium, $3 for large), always buy more tape than you think you'll need, and finally, my friend Dave was right don't underestimate the psychological costs of an in town move. Pick a random grocery store and try to find 10 things you usually buy, see how long it takes you.
Last night my friend Dale and I enjoyed an eight episode Battlestar Galactica marathon. That's about 6 hours of quality interstellar entertainment when you take out commercials. One strange thing we noticed is every paper in the show, even books, were missing the corners. Dale did a little digging and discovered this was a sarcastic take on the budget cuts during production of the mini-series that preceded the series. They were forced to "cut-corners" and decided to make a cynical and comical expression of that fact in the actual show.
And back to grocery stores... While I was in line at the checkout today I saw one of those things that just leaves you wondering how something could go so far. There it was, the pocket sized guide to "Gambling for Dummies". The confluence of marketing tactics is astounding. The perfect combination of the "for Dummies" books with condensed, pocket sized, readability all placed strategically at the greatest venue for the impulse purchase. The apex of targeted marketing. If you're a dummy, there's no way you can refuse this opportunity. Only dummies buy stuff at the checkout line, only dummies buy condensed books, and only dummies believe they can make money gambling. And just in case you are a big enough dummy to miss all that, the book is clearly labeled "for dummies".
Forget the pocket sized version, how about the one page version that reads, "If you are dumb enough to pick this book up, you shouldn't gamble."
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Wednesday, 16 February 2005 |
I'm moving a week from today. I've moved four times in the past five years and my intention is for this to be the last move for several years. My wife calls the house we bought our first "real" house. I'm just happy to have a garage and my own home office.
Lots of intersting things going on that I've been too busy moving to blog about, so here's the abreviated version.
Google maps is open for business. It's an example of how taking a good service to a great service really makes a difference. I'll never use Mapquest or Yahoo! Maps again!
Microsoft released a particularly nasty round of patches this month. Plenty of worm food...
The SciFi channel renewed Battlestar Galactica for a second season. If you haven't seen this show yet, tune in! It's the best new SciFi program in a long time. Next weekend after the move is over I'm planning on an eight hour marathon of all the episodes so far this season. SciFi re-ran the first five one night last week and I'm abstaining from watching the following three episodes until then.
An interesting prediction about the future of Microsoft based on the changing emotional connection between consumers and the company.
The latest CRYPTO-GRAM is out from Bruce Schneier. Schneier is one of those rare people who is not only an expert in his field (computer security and cryptography) but also able to articulate what he knows in a meaningful way. His latest book, Beyond Fear, is a worthy read. It provides a sensible framework for thinking and acting sensibly about security (both online and offline).
I got the iPod kit installed in my car. Checkout the live action shot!
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