April 2006 Entries
Speaking of spam, I just checked the blog database to see how my blog spam filter has been working.
11,664 blog spam messages blocked. Holy smokes, that is way more than I thought it would be.
I use a SQL trigger method, which I documented once before on this blog: http://www.coreyh.com/blog/archive/2005/01/25/1349.aspx
I still get maybe one message per week that makes it through the list, and I always find at least one word or url part to add to the “BannedWords” table, just to be sure I never have to delete the same message type twice.
On my way home last night, around 11pm, I was riding the 2/3 train as usual. I strive for consistency in my commute so I always stand in the same spot on the same car in middle of the train (smoothest ride), even in there are seats available I stand, listen to the ipod with Etymotic ear-phones and read Time magazine.
The trip is express, and takes about nine minutes. I looked up as the train approached my destination and realized that a man, black, 40’s, suit, had been sketching me the entire time.
I really wanted to get a closer...
If you sent me an email anytime between Saturday night and Monday afternoon and didn’t get a response, please send it again.
Ack. Running your own mail server is not without its challenges.
Back when I ran Exchange from home, I had created a separate SMTP connector to send mail to certain domains via my ISPs SMTP servers instead of sending direct because some bigger servers (AOL, etc) had blacklisted all mail coming from my IP range. Except I mistakenly left the “allow mail to be routed to these domains” on.
Although this setting had been there for months, it...
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Originally uploaded by nuwanda.
If you can read this, that means my server move this weekend was successful.
For the record, what I did was physically move my hosted-at-home VMWare GSX server to the shiny new datacenter in Brooklyn.
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The main thing that changed was moving from a Linksys router port forwarding to the VMWare NAT Service. This involved changing the ip addresses for each guest which turned out to be moderately painful when it came to Active Directory and Exchange.
I ended up having to create a whole new virtual NIC for the Exchange server. System Manager would not even come...
http://www.lasikathome.com/foureasysteps.htm
This is almost certainly a joke, but still, they did a lot of work building a site for it. I checked the WHOIS information and it goes through a Domains by Proxy Co, which doesn’t tell you much. You can’t actually place an order for this $99 device, but you can buy t-shirts and hats from Cafepress. I wonder if someone came up with the idea as a way to sell shirts and mugs.
[via Cynical-C Blog]
I’m now omni-networked. Since the IM vendors still haven’t gotten together on federation after, what, nine years now, and I had a few new contacts I needed to work with on Yahoo and AIM, I’m (back) online on those as well.
AIM: nuwanda144Yahoo: nuwanda144 and you already knew theseMSN (live?): nu_wanda at hotmail dot comGoogle Talk: nuwanda at gmail dot com
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I clearly didn’t want to install four different IM clients. I used a modified method of the method described in this tutorial on how to connect to MSN, Yahoo and AIM from Google Talk. The trick is using a...