Author Archives: Silicon Valley Dazed
Forums Rankings
Forums Rankings – website ranking by posts I like looking at the server backend information on this site. The top server, Gaia Online, has 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server. Reefcentral.com has 3 web servers, 1 database server. I clicked on this from … Continue reading
Spamassassin Bayesian and Razor checks enabled
I changed the permissions in the Spamassassin Bayesian database so that the database can now be accessed. I also registered Razor. I did a test with the command spamassassin -D < testemail.txt and I verified that these tests were being run. I have the spam threshold at 5.0 since I think all the tests should … Continue reading
Fantasy Bedtime Hour
Fantasy Bedtime Hour Two girls in bed reading Stephen Donaldson’s Lord Foul’s Bane. I could never get through that turgid mass of a book, so it’s funny to see these two actually read it, and others re-enact scenes from the book in this low-budget public access cable show from San Francisco. It’s interesting to see … Continue reading
Set up a caching-only name server on mailserver
macosxhints – Run a caching-only name server Using the article above, I set up a caching only name server so that the mailserver, the rbl checks, and spamassassin network checks could use a local dns server. Instead of using the version of BIND that shipped with OS X 10.3, I downloaded the latest version of … Continue reading
Scharffenberger Gianduja
Gianduja The history of the Gianduja confection is not well documented and in fact contains some contradictions. Some sources claim that the idea of mixing chocolate and hazelnuts came during Napoleon’s reign (early 1800s) when the Mediterranean was blockaded and left Turin’s chocolate industry short of cacao beans. Hazelnuts were plentiful in the Piedmont region … Continue reading
Poison Oak from Saturday morning ride
On Sunday evening, when I was coming home from San Franciso on BART, the inside part of my right arm started getting very itchy. I noticed it was all red, and I was concerned it was the effects of brushing against some poison oak on my Saturday morning ride which involved a downhill section through … Continue reading
Upgraded SpamAssassin to version 3.10
Hopefully, this upgrade helps remove more spam since spam levels have been creeping up again. There’s a new plug-in architecture for some of the tests such as Vipul’s Razor and a whole bunch of other improvements. I just installed it this morning, and I’ve already noticed a big decrease in the amount of spam that’s … Continue reading
Switched from Cogent T1 to Sonic.net DSL
Slashdot | Blackout Shows Net’s Fragility Since Cogent and Level 3 are having some issues as described above, I’ve switched our websites over to our backup Sonic.net DSL connection until Cogent and Level 3 can work things out.
Not voting for the Governator next time!
I voted for Arnold in the recall election although I’m a registered Democrat (Gray seemed so weak – especially with his proposal just before he left office to provide driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, and Arnold seemed like he would stir up things), but after his veto of AB 748, no more support for Arnie: … Continue reading
Sun, Google in software distribution pact
Sun, Google in software distribution pact It would be interesting if OpenOffice and other web apps snuck in through the Google toolbar. I’m not sure to what extent this will happen, since I think with certain apps, people would prefer the processing to occur on their own machine – particularly for security reasons.