I had a weird thing happen on my notebook and I just wanted to document it, in case anyone else runs into the same thing. I got a new hard disk and on Sony’s site, they have instructions on how to load all of the software that came with the notebook from a fresh Windows installation. This was much more appealing to me than using the recovery disks. When I installed the Sony Vaio drivers, at some...
There’s a long barn at 4th line and Derry in Milton and it’s on fire right now. The fire trucks just showed up. Looks like it was pretty old. Every time I don’t bring my camera somewhere, I see something cool. I literally regret it every time. It’s not fair. Anyway, it’s a long barn, looked like the kind people use to store bunches of equipment (I hope). The whole thing was...
I was just playing with my webmail client and it kinda works in lynx. Colour me impressed. I got a new hard disk last week and I’m working on getting FreeBSD running with X so I can use it as my desktop operating system. Working on downloading updates and stuff is pretty brutal on the dialup connection though. It also took me a while and a half to figure out how to get...
Some mysterious boxes appeared on our porch (no t for Brianne today) yesterday. I just wanted to thank whoever left them there for us. They’re nice and ginormous. Yesterday was a busy day. Brianne went to a horse show all day and in the morning I went to the office, and continued to recover my machine (I got a bigger hard disk so that I stop running out of room in...
.mail is .gay I’ve always had a spam problem. I think the crap grows on me or something. I have adopted the following filtering strategy on my mail servers. First the messages are passed into sendmail, the sender’s IP is then checked against the XBL from SpamHaus. If the IP makes it through that test, they are then passed to amavisd-new running as a sendmail milter. amavisd-new runs the...
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