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Presto, We Have No Gallery!

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Fedora / Linux stuff: For those users of my package set, you can now use yum-presto to grab deltarpms of my packages for Fedora 10 and 11. This should make your life easier – I know my upstream link isn’t … Continue reading →

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Scale and speed and spam

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Obligatory Laugh-and-head-shake digression: I’ve been fighting email spam for 12 years plus, and I still see stupid spammers – pardon the tautology – indiscriminately junkmailing abuse@  role addresses. Idiots. Why not just offer crack to a cop? With that thought … Continue reading →

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Result may be fit, social with an open messaging standard on top.

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Techie Happenings: I’ve been tinkering with more XMPP (Jabber to you oldies) messaging in general, as it happens. I’ve had a look at the python Yahoo transport and found it a little lacking – it’s config is a little too … Continue reading →

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Can sanity prevail? Here’s hoping.

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Christian lobby upset about Australian government backtracking on Internet Censorship I’ve one word to say about this: good. The whole sorry mess that is the Australian net censorship debate has become an international embarrassment. It is not or will be … Continue reading →

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Spamford: Clue resistance writ large.

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Michael Fleming

I was a NANAE (news.admin.net-abuse.email, the Usenet anti-spam frontline) regular back when Sanford Wallace decided – with great fanfare and all manner of self-aggrandisement – to cease email / usenet spamming. $DEITY knows how many cyberpromo-sourced spam messages I  got … Continue reading →

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Offline, again.

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Michael Fleming

Sorry to readers / visitors again for another extended outage. This one is again not my doing but this time there’s been a happier ending. I elected on Friday to churn my ADSL service to Internode (a fairly large ISP … Continue reading →

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Mike takes on social networking sites; declares a draw

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Michael Fleming

I’ve historically been loathe to take on social networking sites, knowing from past experience both as a user and administrator the pitfalls and headaches they can be. Plus, some people using them are just plain fucking weird and/or gratuitously offensive … Continue reading →

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I’m so bored I could listen to Yes.

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Michael Fleming

It’s Saturday, I’ve got a sore throat and I’m on call. Not particularly happy at the moment but things could be worse. In pushing out a couple of small updates to the site tonight I remembered that a “bzr merge” … Continue reading →

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Random Post #2042007

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Michael Fleming

Cool: Tina Wallmann has won Zoo Weekly’s Beach Girl Comp 2007 Congratulations! I’m not normally a Zoo Weekly reader but I’ll pick up this one (I hope they’re better to you than they were Lara Bingle) Mercedes Corby is suing … Continue reading →

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New site design – it’s here!

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Michael Fleming

It’s arrived! In case you’ve missed the rest of the site, I’ve pushed the staging branch to the world in it’s black and green(ish) glory. It may not to be to all tastes but at least it’s better than the … Continue reading →

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