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Posts from November 2006

Feed GOOGLE (email tips)

http://www.itsecurity.com/features/99-email-security-tips-112006/
Why is it that when it comes to emails, there are no accepted standards? Even though 6 billion emails are sent every day, almost no one agrees about simple things like email etiquette, how to organize a note, or whether emails are considered private or not.
The 99 tips in this article make up the [...]


Interesting new cameras

Ricoh has come out with the Ricoh GR Digital. It reminds me of an Olympus Stylus Epic, a no-nonsense camera built around a good quality, prime focus lens. I always like shooting with a prime (non-zoom) lens, most of the pictures on my site were taken with a 28mm or 50mm lens.
I compose a shot [...]


So much for one-click upgrades

I upgraded Wordpress from 2.04 to 2.05, and in the process lost my template edits and WP-Cache seems to be broken. If you hit my blog and got an empty page, then refreshed and got the site content, that’s why.
I thought I had everything saved, but mixed up content in copying from the backup folder [...]


SPAM fighting (A talking to myself, want to get this in google post…)

I’ve been getting a HUGE number of SPAMs slipping through my SPAMASSASSIN filter, and have been trying to figure out how to combat it. SPAMs are getting flagged as BAYES_00, which gives them a negative score.
I was moving them into the SPAM folder, then running sa-learn nightly to train.
I’ve started moving those SPAMs into a [...]