Spamassassin Custom Rulesets

Monday, November 7th, 2005

I’m starting this post in part as a placeholder for some information I’ve come across. I’ve been tinkering with my first custom spamassassin rule. I’ve tried the SARE rulesets and they seem to be missing one specific class of junk mail in my setup. (After verifying that the rulesets were actually being used), I set […]

The end of antivirus definition updates?

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Well, frankly, there has been talk of the end of definition based antivirus scanning for years. You see the achilles heel of any AV scanner is that it has to have signatures of what known viruses look like, so there will always be a reflex window, where there’s a new unknown virus that people are […]

Peculiar SPAM

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

I’m getting a new flush of strange junk mails the last day. Most have a subject of either “EIN (Einer!!) Menschenhaendler und Brandstifter laueft frei herum” or a slight variation “EIN Menschenhaendler (und Brandstifter) laueft frei herum” They all claim to be from “WWW daemon apache ”    Send article as PDF   

Codeweavers announces 2005 and 2006 plans

Monday, August 15th, 2005

I saw this last week but never took the time to mention it. Codeweavers has announced their roadmap for 2005 and 2006. Codeweavers of course is the company that makes crossover office (a wine implementation to allow several windows applications to run under linux). Codeweavers is a major contributor to the Wine project    Send […]

New office suite release

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Desktop Linux reported Friday that Thinkfree office has promoted their $49.95 office suite at LinuxWorld (last week.) This is Thinkfree Office 3. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Supports Microsoft office file formats, has a Microsoft-Office-like interface and “critical feature compatibility”.    Send article as PDF   

KDE 3.5 preview part 2 up

Friday, August 12th, 2005

A while back I did an article on a preview of KDE 3.5 (currently in alpha). Today the Second part of that preview of what is to come (kome?) in KDE is up. He picks up featuring the changes in konqueror. (The default web browser under KDE.) On the eyecandy front…. SuperKaramba has been included […]

Backing up and restoring MySQL databases

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

In the past few days I’ve been working on an automated backup system for both my site databases and a few others. I thought I’d take a bit to go through what I’ve done. It’s really simple, but I suspect there are some that either don’t realise it’s this simple, or will think this is […]

Broadband speeds keep going up

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

Zdnet is reporting that a British broadband company, NTL is upping their Cable internet speed rto 10Mbps at no charge by the end of the year. Other competitors in the UK are already at 8Mbps for their rates. It sounds as though ADSL+2 promises speeds upwards of 24Mbps by the end of the year as […]

IBM releasing new type of web search technology

Monday, August 8th, 2005

It looks as though IBM has some ideas about revolutionizing the way data on the internet is searched. Instead of keyword based searching, they will release technology that allows searching of concepts and facts.    Send article as PDF   

Simple Backup

Monday, August 8th, 2005

This is going to explain some ideas for a really simple way to make your own backup routine.    Send article as PDF   

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