This wouldn't have happened with Gainsborough or one of those proper painters.
Tuesday, August 31
Didn't Think So
Anyone want 786MB of spam? Free to a good home. Or a bad one.
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Hmmm...that's tempting. Mighty tempting. It's so hard to pass up anything free when you've got 3 kids...
Posted by: Jim at Tuesday, August 31 2004 01:45 PM (IOwam)
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How does one get that much spam? It constantly amazes me that people are so flooded with spam. Today I got one (1) spam. Some days I get zero.
Of course, the fact that I run my own mail server and am very good at preventing spam could explain things. No, I'm not so aggressive that I refuse legitimate email. It's simply a matter of using the right tools.
Posted by: Rossz at Tuesday, August 31 2004 11:09 PM (n5Jbg)
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I'm filtering the spam rather than blocking it. When I checked to see how much was in the spam trap, well...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 01 2004 02:28 AM (kOqZ6)
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Hi Pixy,
I've installed ASSP (http://assp.sf.net/) on our mail server last weekend and it is working a treat already. Conbines Bayesian filters, white listing, virus scanning, and other clever ideas (SPF in beta) in a nice open source package. Only problem I had was upgrading Perl to a modern version, which is a real b*tch on Cobalt servers!
Kean
Posted by: Kean at Wednesday, September 01 2004 07:12 PM (2xCxk)
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Thanks Kean, I'll take a look at it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 01 2004 07:30 PM (+S1Ft)
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ASSP looks interesting. I think I should review it for my upcoming online Linux magazine. We hope to go live in 2 or 3 weeks. I won't be releasing details until we the date is etched in stone.
Posted by: Rossz at Thursday, September 02 2004 11:36 PM (n5Jbg)
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Sunday, August 29
Because I Can, Part 39
I now have an automated RSS feed that replicates my blog into the
mu.nu forums. Not just little excerpts, either, but complete HTML-formatted entries.
Why? Because I can.
Update: Apparently I can't. All the entries went across just fine, but now it doesn't seem to want to transfer this entry. Foo.
Update: Oh. The feed software works out that it's already imported an article based on the title. So I must have previously used "Because It Was There" as a post title. Now that I've renamed this, it should work fine. Let's find out, shall we?
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Wow, that all gave me a headache. I still don't know what you are talkin' 'bout.
Posted by: Tiger at Sunday, August 29 2004 04:17 PM (G5PGV)
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PS. The css on your main page is horky on my system, in that the main data column so far as to cover almost the whole right column. IE 6.02, XP (Home) and have jes' rescently downloaded and updated with SP2 - 1024x768 P4 processor on 56k dialup
Posted by: Tiger at Sunday, August 29 2004 04:26 PM (G5PGV)
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Hi Tiger,
Just switch to Firefox.
I put it on my laptop for just this reason (and because Pixy kept nagging me to) and haven't looked back.
I will soon be loading Firefox on all my other machines too, as IE just doesn't compare!
Of course I do have to resort to IE occassionally for sites that don't support "other browsers", but they are getting less common each day.
Kean
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Saturday, August 28
A Little Piece Of History
With the Republican Convention upon us, and with it the CounterConvention, it is worth revisiting
this little piece of history, which I had the foresight to save shortly before their hired monkeys returned from lunch and deleted the whole thing.
Enjoy.
P.S. The wretched formatting is as per the original site.
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I think I laughed loudest at "No Commies Here No Sirree ".....
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, August 29 2004 03:26 PM (mua5j)
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Hey! Where's the Drink Alert? Do you have any idea how much I paid for this keyboard??
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at Monday, August 30 2004 02:09 PM (MzH7h)
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Friday, August 27
My Name Is Pixy, And I Have A Problem
I have a points system running on the
MuNu forum, whereby people can earn points for posting (or getting comments to their posts), spend points to play games, and win points by getting high scores on games.
The points are named pengos, after the Hungarian currency up to 1946, which during the 40's suffered the worst inflation in history:
In 1941, the Pengoe was valued at 3.46 to the U.S. Dollar. Both during and shortly after World War II, however, the government printed billions of Pengo to offset the tragic results of war on the Hungarian economy. By March 3, 1946, 1 U.S. Dollar was equivalent to 10.3 million Pengoe. In the same year, a new currency unit was issued, Known as the Mil-pengo, which was equivalent to 1,000,000 pengoes. Soon after, the Bil-pengo denomination arrived. What you see here is a note valued at 10,000,000,000,000,000 Pengoe! On the last day of July, the rampant inflation ended with the issuance of the forint, an entirely new unit valued at a rate of one per four hundred million quadrillion pengoes.
Studium Magazine
I have added a small tweak, which transfers pengos spent in the games arcade into my account. Having done that, I'm now curious as to how many pengos are being issued by the system, and how they are being spent. In fact, I want to develop a proper double-entry book-keeping system to keep track of pengos.
It's an occupational hazard, I guess.
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Computers are not my occupation, but I completely understand. What starts out as a mole hill often ends up to be a mountain. Then, after a couple of months I have to trim back because all I'm doing is sitting at the computer. Maybe I should have gone into the field. :)
Hey, by the way, I use IE (yeah, I know) and I can't see your right bar. :(
Posted by: Linda at Friday, August 27 2004 10:07 AM (9Pzdi)
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I really need to do something about my template. :/ I do have a fix for it... Here somewhere.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 27 2004 12:15 PM (+S1Ft)
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Sounds like you could use a couple of guinea pigs or lab rats. To bad I'm recovering from my latest post to play.... but I'll spread the word.
Thanks for all the hard work you've put in!
Posted by: michele at Friday, August 27 2004 02:23 PM (2c9qq)
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The thing is, I don't quite understand the pengo thing you started. What games? Where? I'll pay you 5 pengos for that info!
Posted by: RS at Saturday, August 28 2004 05:31 PM (QSk22)
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Rusty, it's all happenin' at the new
mu.nu!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, August 28 2004 10:24 PM (+S1Ft)
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I mentioned this to my Hungarian born wife and she pulled out her old coin box. Amongst the coins she found a 1939 1 pengo" and a 1941 1 pengo" (note there should be a double acute accent over the 'o'). There's a very distinct difference in the quality of the metal in these two coins. The newer one feels lighter and cheaper. It also looks like it was minted to lower standards - it looks cheaper.
While shopping in Budapest, I remember seeing some old Hungarian bills of huge amounts being sold for very little money as curiosities.
Posted by: Rossz at Sunday, August 29 2004 08:43 PM (n5Jbg)
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Thursday, August 26
Go Australia!
Yay! More gold for us, and we've equalled our 16 golds at the Sydney Olympics and pulled into third place by the traditional ranking. Russia had a good day too, so we'll have to stay on our toes.
Not that I've actually, like, watched any of the events...
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I have to say one thing about the Aussie women. They are hot!! Plus that accent is kind of a turn on. Call me strange.
My favorite of the Aussies is Loudy Tourky. She is cute as a button.
Posted by: Tom at Friday, August 27 2004 08:04 AM (kmiNS)
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Monday, August 23
Can't Blog, Clowns Will Eat Me
I haven't blogged much lately, because (a) I OD'd on blogs a bit over the past month, (b) I've been watching old episodes of
Charmed* and (c) I've been setting up
the all new MuNu Portal.
Better portal<->blog integration, RSS feeds and stuffs like that will be coming soon. In the mean time, you can register and just play the games.
Update: Oh, and let me know if you do sign up so I can give you some coins for the arcade.
* Wow, does this show have some bad acting or what? I only watch it for Alyssa Milano...
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Can I have chocolate coins? Oh, better not--I'll eat them and won't be able to play the games....
Posted by: Susie at Monday, August 23 2004 01:59 PM (mua5j)
Posted by: Jim at Tuesday, August 24 2004 07:39 AM (IOwam)
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But Milano is the worst actor on the show. Well, worst lead...
Personally, the terrible writing weighs more with me than the acting. I got used to Whedon's agile hacks - the Spelling sump is a real let-down after you get used to
Buffy.
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I didn't say I watched it for Milano's
acting...
Yeah, the writing is pretty bad too. One thing that annoys me particularly is that the characters' intelligence varies enormously from episode to episode.
Actually, I'm not so much watching it as using it as moving wallpaper while I set up the new web site. There's lots of file transfers and fiddly little edits and image tweaks and logging in and out and I just have
Charmed running in the background. Not something I normally do, but it seems to work, because neither the show nor the work are particularly taxing mentally.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 24 2004 10:07 AM (+S1Ft)
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'Cause what I'm doing is not programming as such, but rather trying to smoosh three major software packages and about seventy mutually incompatible plugins/hacks/modules all together into one working system. La la la. Surprisingly, it's sort of starting to come together.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 24 2004 10:10 AM (+S1Ft)
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I prefer Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan myself, but to each his own...
Posted by: physics geek at Wednesday, August 25 2004 11:52 AM (Xvrs7)
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Rose McGowan? Does she replace Shannon Doherty?
Have to keep watching then. :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, August 25 2004 07:55 PM (+S1Ft)
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Chocolate coins are also known as "gelt" at Hanukah time and you use them to play with the dreidel, a game of chance. I love gelt.
Posted by: RP at Thursday, August 26 2004 08:51 AM (LlPKh)
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I was tryin' to figure out where you could get some coins for the arcade. Hopefully shoebox or so full of them, will work.
Posted by: Tiger at Thursday, August 26 2004 03:15 PM (JCxVY)
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* Wow, does this show have some bad acting or what? I only watch it for Alyssa Milano...
LOL! Glad to see I'm not the only one :)
Posted by: S at Friday, August 27 2004 10:07 PM (tNB+Q)
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Thursday, August 19
Taking Out The Trash
The usual suspects are
trashing Unfit to Command in a series of factually-challenged and often revealing reviews at Amazon, giving the book an average - indeed, unanimous - rating of one star. And in return:
4 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
3 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
2 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
3 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Who will review the reviewers? We will.
Oh, and the revealing part?
The accounts are vague at critical junctures, and each and every claim has already been refuted by Democrat operatives.
Democrat
operatives? VLWC, anyone? From the inside?
Of course, the only point directly addressed so far by the Kerry campaign is the famous "Christmas in Cambodia" story, which has now morphed first into a "Christmas near Cambodia" story and then into a "Late January/Early February in Cambodia" story. I think all that searing might have affected someone's brain.
(Pixy Misa is messing about with the MuNu forums and the new MuNu portal, and will return soon. This gratuitous sniping at the Campaign To Elect Someone Who Isn't George Bush was brought to you by a bottle of Cherry Coke*.)
* Bottle of Cherry Coke does not represent the opinions of the Coca-Cola corporation or its employees or shareholders. I am Pixy Misa and I approve this message.
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We know all about the bottle of Cherry Coke. It's a stoolie for the Board of Directors.
Posted by: Jim at Thursday, August 19 2004 10:15 AM (IOwam)
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Pixy,
Don't you see what the problem is? Only someone who is doing coke would question the integrity of Sin..er, Sen. Kerry. You'd have to be coked up & off your cherry to believe a bunch of combat veterans who dispute various aspects of Sen. Kerry'sclaims. After all if Kerry says it's true then it's true - well until he syas it's untrue.
Don't let the coke, cherries & facts get in your way. Start thinking for yourself & blindly trust Kerry's claim of the moment. After all he isn't Bush, remember? :D
Posted by: Publicola at Friday, August 20 2004 03:23 PM (Aao25)
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LOL Publicola!
I noticed that at Amazon, too. It amused me mightily...
Posted by: Susie at Friday, August 20 2004 07:57 PM (CSnd4)
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Sunday, August 15
Squirrels? Would That Be Metric Or Imperial?
The great thing about SQL is that it's so well standardised, so that it's trivial to transfer data from one SQL database to another, or to move an application to a different SQL platform.
(Bangs head on desk.)
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Can I get you an ice pack for that lovely bruise on your forhead? ;)
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, August 15 2004 01:36 PM (CSnd4)
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He's obviously delusional. Better send in more brass monkeys.
Posted by: Jim at Sunday, August 15 2004 02:38 PM (q6E0D)
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I discovered this week that I'm the SQL expert in the new workplace, thanks to my 2 months of self-taught fiddling around and owning SQL for Dummies. This could get interesting. :)
Posted by: Ted at Sunday, August 15 2004 05:31 PM (ZjSa7)
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SQL's a wonderful language for self-inflicted blunt force trauma.
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Saturday, August 14
Them!
Giant Mutant Ant Colony Found In Australia!
Melbourne, to be precise. Bwahahaha!
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Awk! Run! Run for your lives! (Seriously,
underneath the city?)
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, August 15 2004 01:38 PM (CSnd4)
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Mutant ants might be intelligent enough to puzzle out cross-platform SQL transfers. And if not, there's enough of them to each take a little bit of data and do it manually.
Just a thought.
Posted by: Ted at Sunday, August 15 2004 05:27 PM (ZjSa7)
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I'm not visiting Sydney. Not unless they do some major exterminating.
And I thought Israel had an ant problem.
Posted by: Rachel Ann at Monday, August 16 2004 03:11 PM (8T53U)
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They're the ones tunneling through the core of the planet....they're going to take over Disneyland.
Posted by: Mad Mikey at Tuesday, August 17 2004 05:21 PM (NmR1a)
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Sydney Morning Herald Delenda Est
The Squeeze Is On
Today we see the new and energetic Opposition Leader, Mark Latham, struggling in the fist of Prime Minister, John Howard, the Machiavellian monster threatening to crush the neophyte leader much as he dispatched the past three Labor leaders - Paul Keating, Kim Beazley and Simon Crean. But unlike those three, Latham has flared briefly into the public view and, if crushed now, could well be remembered, like John Hewson, only as the man who promised greatness but lost in his moment of testing.
Today, front page, above the fold.
Why don't you just rename yourselves the Sydney Morning Leftist Rag and have done with it?
Paul Keating was never in the public view? What the hell? He was only the bleeding Prime Minister of Australia for five years. Could someone find out what the people at the Herald - sorry, the Leftist Rag - are smoking, and take it away from them?
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