Friday, August 15
I hate it when a huge and complicated report running against a huge and complicated database (doing backwards aging and analysis of 80 million invoices and payments), after running for 36 hours, coughs and dies with a nonexistent error code.
I hate that.
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Thursday, August 14
Ez Web Hosting have proven themselves to be the least irresponsible link in the not-actually-spam chain, and have stopped using SPEWS to bounce incoming mail, going back to relying on the excellent SpamAssassin.
Which is good. Using SPEWS to filter incoming mail throws out the good with the bad - a lot of good, since SPEWS often lists thousands of IP addresses where there are only a handful of spammers. SpamAssassin, on the other hand, simply marks messages that look like spam (and it's almost always right) and passes everything along to you. Any halfway-decent mail client can then sort the good from the bad for you - without throwing away false positives. And SpamAssassin gives a much lower rate of false positives than SPEWS. It gives you the baby and the bathwater, with the bathwater neatly labeled so you can't miss it.
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As James Taranto would say, Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead.
Another worm has run amok among the Windows Boxen of the world, spreading joy happiness chaos wherever it goes. Admittedly, Microsoft already had a patch out for this one, but who installs every patch Microsoft put out? Particularly when there's a history of some of Microsoft's patches not exactly working as advertised (read: Uh-oh. You do have a recent backup, right?).
If you're lonely - or just bored - and think you don't get enough email, and you're the lucky owner of a Netgear firewall/router, try turning on the automatic attack warning messages. I'm up to a couple of hundred an hour on my home network.
Of course, Linux just shrugs at these attacks. Like Code Red and Nimda, they just bounce off. Which is why SCO had to engage in their sad little lawsuit to kill Linux instead.
Curiously enough, senior SCO suits (I like that term; it suggests that the management of SCO consists of various uncomfortable articles of clothing rather than actual human beings) have been taking advantage of the post-lawsuit share price hike to dump their stock. Who'da thunk?
(Thanks to The Inquirer.)
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Wednesday, August 13
Ah, my wonderful reliable new ADSL connection....
Not.
Sigh.
And if I wasn't up fiddling with this darn aged debtors report, I wouldn't have even known it went down.
Meanwhile, only a true fansub would subtitle the words "Rizel-chan, ganbatte ne" as "Rizel-chan, ganbatte ne".
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It's a good thing that Winamp didn't stop working on Winamp 2 when they released Winamp 3. It's not that 3 is bad, it's just that 2 is better. In almost every way.
There's a reason it's been downloaded 273,375,923 times (when I last checked).
And now it plays videos. And because it allows me to easily set it to realtime priority, it doesn't suffer when I'm running things in the background. Which is good, because I'm always running things in the background. The alternative would be a dual-processor machine for Windows, but that would require some of that money stuff I've heard about...
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When I said that the scriptwriter for the real world couldn't get a job in television, I hadn't considered Japan.
In episode 10 of Rizelmine, Rizel-chan heads off on a quest to find the legendary teddy-bear panties "41's Princess", originally discovered high on the slopes of Mount Everest.
No, really.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Rizel cries nitroglycerine tears. Waah! BOOM!
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I tell you, whoever's writing the script for this world of ours wouldn't get away with it in television.
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Tuesday, August 12
So, one of those discount pharmaceutical spammers has decided to use my domain for their fake headers. That sucks. It's a great domain name and these vermin are polluting it by attaching it to their worthless crap.
And you know what? Hotmail can't read email headers to save its life. So when these spamming weasels hit a closed Hotmail account, guess who gets the bounce message.
Yeah.
Kill them all.
And then there's the in-duh-vidual at adsl-67-64-156-215.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net whose computer is trying to use me as a relay every few hours. Hello? Either you're an idiot whose computer has been hacked by spammers, or you are a spammer. Either way, piss off and stop clogging up my log files. How many 554 Relay access denied messages does it take to get through to you? And why are you so desperate to spam theism2@sbcglobal.net anyway?
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It's alive! It's alive!
Woo hoo! Whee! Yeehaa!
Happy happy ADSL! Happy happy no evil "transparent" proxies! Happy happy no blocked ports! Happy happy no evil $150 per gigabyte excess! Happy happy static IP! Happy happy 512kb uploads! Happy happy $70 per month cheaper!
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Either my ADSL is in the process of being transferred to my new ISP, or it just plain isn't working. Either way, don't expect too much blogging in the next 24 hours.
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