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 always fast so the less traffic over it the better for you guys - it’s a [...]
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 out of the way…
Mike McGrath’s memcached plug prompted me to give it a go here, for [...]
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 different to the python MSN / ICQ / AIM transports than I’d personally like, which I’m [...]
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 feasible technically (something the august members of SAGE-AU have pointed out many, many times - and [...]
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 IÂ got back in the (pre-DNSBL pre-Bayes pre-anything-but-procmail-filters) day.
Those that thought he’d just lay low for quite [...]
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 here in Australia) as they provide a decent service and I get a discount as a [...]
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 because they think they’re anonymous (have I got bad news for *you*!).
I prefer to do my [...]
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” will of course set the timestamps on any merged files, so when I synced the changes [...]
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