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{ Monthly Archives } April 2008

stuck

I’m stuck and I don’t have a good way out. I’ll paint the picture for you: I’m responsible for a mail server that handles mail for about 50 domains. We get joe jobbed pretty much constantly, and recently spammers have started picking on not-so-tech-savvy individuals who do their mail with us. Eg. “Poor User”<p.user@example.net> gets [...]

a coherent argument

A day of spam evil and various upgrade headaches (not to mention end-of-semester woes) makes this sound downright logical:

aaaarrgh


Orange Politics, audio of the call

That robocall I posted about earlier also got posted on Orange Politics, where it got a lot of reads and a lot of comments fairly quickly. I started a tumblr blog to be able to easily post the audio of the robocall.

robocall from a realtor

I just got a robocall from a group calling itself “Citizens for a better Orange County” that opposes the Transfer Tax. It calls the tax the “Home Tax,” which is clearly wrong on two levels. Firstly, the proposed tax is on all land sales, and secondly it is an attempt to falsely personalize this tax [...]

voicethread of recent pictures

Monte is in my Network Protocols class at UNC, and we went out for pizza and beer after class. He started talking about what it is that eats up all his time, and it absolutely blew me away. Check out my feeble attempt to use his website below, or jump right to making your own.

not a network guy

So… mirroring scripts are having trouble. I’m not a network expert, but this looks slightly problematic.

Matt’s traceroute [v0.54]
fedora1 [...]

changes in the sidebar, COSI calendar

Most of you get this via planet TriLUG or feedburner, but for those of you that actually visit the site, you’ll notice that I’ve made a bunch of changes to the sidebar recently. The most recent and most important is that I made a page for the COSI calendar. I’m going to get off my [...]

god bless java

LOL:
[22:55] <norsetto> crimsun: have you built this in a ppa? Trying to build it locally just trashes my hd to death
[22:59] <crimsun> norsetto: I’ve tried twice to build it locally. I gave up after, each time, it ate through all RAM and swap. I finally got work permission to build it on a machine there. [...]

screenlets in Ubuntu and an XSS exploit

If you run Ubuntu and aren’t subscribed to Tombuntu, I recommend you grab your feed reader and go add it. Inspired by this post on screenlets, I mac-ified my Ubuntu:

The little flower-pot-looking-thing on the left is in fact a flower pot. You have to right-click and “give water” for the flower to grow. I’ve heard [...]