Archive for October, 2006
Quickly warm up some taco shells and spread them with leftovers.
For those who complain about spam but don't use what we offer, I've been looking at how effective our SMTP-time measures are, and I'm quite impressed.
Almost 70% of all mail targeted at our Exim gateways gets thrown out during the SMTP session proper. The largest part by far because the senders are on one of [...]
ClamAV is the Open Source anti-virus scanner. The project publishes updates to the virus database periodically (currently several times a day!), and ClamAV checks to see if it is up to date, by querying the Domain Name Service, a technology I describe in some detail here.
Once in a while our freshclam hangs up, more often [...]
If you worry you die, and if you don't worry you die so why worry?
From the musical Comedian Harmonists.
I just brought up an old PC from the cellar, vacuum-cleaned it and I'm now running Darik's Boot and Nuke to wipe the hard disk clean. That is going to take over two hours.
DBAN is a bootable image, both for floppy disk and CD-ROM, which attempts to detect and optionally wipe all attached hard disks, [...]
Whenever I draw a diagram of the Internet connected via a firewall to a corporate network, I draw the Internet on the left and the corporate LAN on the right of the firewall. I've always pictured the Internet on the left, although many people do it in reverse.
Is there a correct or standard way of [...]
Whilst on the train home this afternoon, I tweaked the code of blogit to remove two small bugs that were annoying me: I fixed the posting times (blogit was always two hours ahead of time) with a simple mktime(gmtime(&now)) to convert the local posting time to GMT, and I enabled posts in more than one [...]