Here is an interesting article from CNN about how Mitch Kapor is working to put together another open source challenger to outlook. So what makes his different from Evolution. Well, it’s not evolution to put it simply. It still is open source and all, but it’s gonna run on Windows and Mac to start with. This is a huge boon to the system. Kapor is known as the guy who started Lotus.
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Oh yes, this letter shows why I love the music industry so much. Way to go EMI…I especially like the warnings about cracking be illegal in the future.
So today my brother asked me to block a couple of domain names that were spamming him. I didn’t know how to in postfix, luckily for me Postfix, my mailer daemon, has some pretty good support for anti-spam measures. I’ll detail two things that I did today:
First I put the following lines in my /etc/postfix/main.cf file:
header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks disable_vrfy_command = yes smtpd_banner = $myhostname NO UCE ESMTP smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination, check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access The first line allows the system to perform some automagic header checking on the message.
I just found out about WeirdMind . It’s a pretty cool program, combines an SSH1 client with a the WeirdX Java XServer implementation. So I can plop down an HTML file on my server and get full X access. That’s pretty sweet. Far better than VNC, in my opinion.
Okay, so I’m taking one undergraduate course this semester. It’s been pretty cool, very low key to this point, pretty easy, all that jazz. I’m learning a thing or two, but not a whole lot. In all reality, I probably could have tested right out of this course.
So anyway, one of the things that we are required to do is to write a little data communication simulator. The problem is that the TA wants it to run under Windows.
NVIDIA Unveils New Video Card for Porn Enthusiasts. Stolen off of fark.com.
This is a file I wrote a while ago for Lego Mindstorms competitions. It’s called Poison. Bascially, it turns off the other robots. To use it, save the code as poison.nqh and then put a line #include “poison.nqh”. In your program just add then line start poison; and you will start poisoning other robots.
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * legos/zacks2/poison.nqc *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Operation poison the other robots... *---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ task poison() { SetSerialComm (SERIAL_COMM_DEFAULT); SetSerialPacket(SERIAL_PACKET_DEFAULT); SetTxPower(TX_POWER_HI); while(1) { SetSerialData(0,0x68); SendSerial(0,1); } } If you want to make it an andidote change the data to 0x10 instead of 0x68.
Most have heard of CleanFlicks by now, but leave it to California to come up with FilthyFlicks.
Edward Felten has a blog up at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ with many an interesting thing on it.
BusinessWeek has an article up about Eldred vs Ashcroft. On other interesting stuff, I found out that Lawrence Lessig has a blog on his web page. That might be a good thing to set up a news feed for so I can see updates on my page.