What I did on my vacation from reality

December 24, 2007

Grr.

Filed under: Geek, Whining — cuervo @ 7:57 pm -- Popularity: 5% [?]

So, I accidentally blew away my entire Javascript directory on the webserver, and the server the backups were on …well, that’s the router that “crashed”.

Fuck. Me. Sideways.

I managed to save some of it, but the parameter parsing source went bye-bye — at least the one that did it properly. Grr. I’ve kludged around that for the moment by just uncollapsing all the sidebar menus on the right. I was thinking about changing themes, anyway. Oh, well.

Also, is the fact that mutt can’t do header matching in the index fucking irritating to anyone else?

Computers are pissing me off. Merry Christmas.

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December 19, 2007

More fun with spam

Filed under: Code, Geek, Linux, perl — cuervo @ 2:41 pm -- Popularity: 5% [?]

[UPDATE] I cleaned up the source a bit, so it’s suitable for human consumption.

I was adding more bells and whistles to my mail system — this time, a command-line program to parse through SpamAssassin’s configs and tell you about rules, and one to add headers as such — when I realized that all that data I was basing the pointless little graphs in my earlier post on was a little rough, and SpamAssassin already has the data on what I consider ham and spam. D’oh!

So, here’s another one, based on sa-learn --dump magic. (Here’s source.)

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December 17, 2007

Fun with spam

Filed under: Code, Geek, Stuff, perl — cuervo @ 5:52 pm -- Popularity: 4% [?]

I was tweaking my email system when I started wondering: what are the most popular hits against SpamAssassin?

So, I wrote a program to find out. :-)

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December 13, 2007

Fuck you, too, KFI

Filed under: Misc — cuervo @ 12:18 am -- Popularity: 4% [?]

I used to listen to KFI all the time when I lived in Orange County. I’d leave it on 24/7, either using it for background noise while I worked on something, or listening to John and Ken and, uh, “relaxing”.

A while back, on the order of years, I bought a new laptop. The one I wrote the Sharp PC-MM10 Linux-Laptops page for, as a matter of fact. I was bored one day, and I realized I could stream KFI through the wireless net to the little thing. It was cool, and relatively painless.

Then the feed URL changed… (more…)

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December 11, 2007

Puppy + Ubuntu: Pupbuntu?

Filed under: Geek, Linux, Stuff — cuervo @ 11:17 pm -- Popularity: 5% [?]

I got a wild hair up my ass to get Puppy and Ubuntu both booting off my 1G USB drive.

Oddly enough, it worked pretty well, but it took a bit of work.

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Spammity spam, wonderful spam!

Filed under: Geek, perl — cuervo @ 3:04 pm -- Popularity: 3% [?]

I was working on my mail filter when I figured it’d be interesting to start graphing how much of my mail is what. (I had a system to do this a long time ago, but lost it.)

The system isn’t foolproof — you’ll notice it starts in October, but there’s a message in July. Date::Manip seems to have FAILed.

It’s also not self-updating. Maybe I’ll get around to that.

Images: (more…)

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December 10, 2007

New toy: PayPal security key

Filed under: Geek, Linux, Stuff — cuervo @ 8:06 am -- Popularity: 21% [?]

I got my new PayPal “security key” in the mail today. It’s nifty, but so far, the only way I’ve found to use it with Linux is a commercial product called Stadrin. Even then, I’m not sure it’ll support the PayPal keyfob.



I’ve had the key for about a week now, and had no problems using it to log into PayPal thus far.

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December 3, 2007

T-Mobile haxx0ring

Filed under: Code, Geek, Linux, perl — cuervo @ 11:20 am -- Popularity: 5% [?]

I’ve increased the nift factor of the cam system: I can post with my phone once again.

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