A year and a half after I started a revolution, I can finally say that the revolution is complete.

Of course, I'm mostly just an instigator. Someone in Germany did most of the work.

1. Between my MP3 player, my camera, and my 1GB flash drive, I have lots of use for the "USB Mass-Storage" interface. I use four different computers that I can connect these to -- all running Linux of course, kernel versions 2.6.7, 2.6.8.1, and 2.6.11.7. The only one of these that actually works properly and consistently with those USB devices is ( Read more... )

According to Anne S. Baumgartner in A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Gods, Girru is the Sumerian messenger of the gods, as well as the god of fire and light, and the patron of civilization.

This is useful information when naming a mail server, and all the rest of the server names start with the letter G.

I'm on a lot of email lists. Some of them (mostly technical or pagan) I specifically chose to subscribe to, and others (mostly political) I ended up on through one affiliation or another and never bothered to unsubscribe. I also include status emails from my computers in the list category (at least that's the way my filtering/sorting system works ( Read more... )

The funknet.net server is undergoing work today (replacing the machine, actually), so I expected things to be somewhat impaired. What I didn't expect, however, was this combination:
1. Not being able to send mail.
2. Not being able to receive mail I send myself from my yahoo account3. Still getting spam. In fact for a while I was getting a lot ( Read more... )

Lately I've been really amazed at how little spam makes it to my inbox. (Knock on wood...) I use a Bayesian filter, bogofilter, plus some additional filtering to get rid of virus attachments and a particular spammer that's good at getting around Bayesian filters (though I think my filter is finally getting trained well enough on those ( Read more... )

This week I've attempted to be a bit of a minor revolutionary, but things have stalled a bit....

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Time for a geek entry, even though few if any current readers care about this stuff. My apologies.Email must be stored somewhere. First, while it's waiting on a server to be downloaded with a POP or IMAP client; second, after it's been downloaded to a user's computer; third, when a user saves it for posterity. (Yes, I'm deliberately ignoring ( Read more... )