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Posts from June 2006

Posted
29 June 2006 @ 3pm

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journal

Comment SPAM!

I turned off my anti comment SPAM plugins this morning to debug an issue with WP-cache. 2 hours later, I had 87 comment spams awaiting moderation!
I turned akismet back on and noticed this:
Akismet has caught 107,642 spam for you since you first installed it.


50% spam

Microsoft Exchange’s Intelligent Mail Filter is a surprisingly nice tool from Microsoft. It’s a heuristic mail filter with whitelisting, custom pattern matching via XML files, patterns are updated via Microsoft Update twice a month, and users can configure it through Outlook Web Access or the Junk e-mail filter in Outlook 2000/2003.
My company is getting [...]


Posted
24 June 2006 @ 9am

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journal

Vox

http://www.vox.com looks pretty nice. It’s a new blogging service in Beta from Six Apart - the owners/creators of LiveJournal, TypePad, and Moveable Type.
It’s a little strange. SixApart now owns a community-driven blog site, a for-pay blog hosting service, mixed commercial/free use blogging software, and is now starting another blog community site using what appears [...]


ALL_TRUSTED

SPAMASSASSIN at Dreamhost started letting quite a few spams slip by - these were mostly over-the-counter stock spams that didn’t resemble spam to spamassassin.
I looked at the headers for the missed spams, and noticed an ALL_TRUSTED header. Apparently spamassassin defaults to trusting all mail hosts. I added a line specifying the IP address of my [...]


Posted
18 June 2006 @ 9am

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journal

Last week’s time sync

We recently finished upgrading an NT 4.0 domain and Exchange 5.5 mail server to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. After turning off ADC and decommisioning the 5.5 server, we attempted an upgrade of our Blackberry Enterprise Server from 2.1 to 4.0.
Blackberry apparently upgraded the licensing structure, and our license keys didn’t work with 4.0. So, [...]


Posted
18 June 2006 @ 9am

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netsec

Still hacking…

I’ve got the DD-WRT firmware running on my WRT54GL router, and it looks pretty good. I’ve got Chilispot running to allow people to access the FON network with it, and need to add a script to “phone home” to FON, letting them know that I’m open for business.
I could save a huge chunk of my [...]


Posted
13 June 2006 @ 9pm

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journal

FON Home!

I got my FON router in the mail today. It’s a Linksys WRT54GL with FON’s special software to allow FON members to share wireless bandwidth. Setup is going to be a pain; it came with no documentation. More news as it develops!
Update: The good news is that I got DD-WRT firmware to load. The better [...]


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