Technology

My office is right by Mercury Interactive and the Veritas offices of Symantec. It was a bad day for the stocks of both companies: A 19.3 percent drop in Symantec’s shares took the Cupertino security-software maker off the list of the valley’s 10 most valuable tech stocks. Symantec stock fell $4.63 to $19.37 after the … Continue reading »

Two times last night, my iBook just froze and I received this error message telling me to restart the computer. After some research, I found that resetting the PMU might solve my problems. I reset the PMU per the instructions on this page at Apple.com, and the computer seems to be much faster now. More … Continue reading »

In addition to Spamassassin, I’ve been running the sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and relays.ordb.org rbls by themselves. If there were any hits on those two rbls, the mail was automatically classified as spam. Unfortunately, I think there were some false positives in the rbl hits. Now I’m assigning points to rbl hits in Spamassassin, so if a mail … Continue reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

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.

Yesterday, I dropped my wife off at Mike’s Bikes so she could finish test riding road bikes before making a final decision. Fry’s Palo Alto was close by so I went there with the kids to get my daughter Kid Pix Deluxe 4 (we couldn’t find the CD for her Kids Pix Deluxe 3). I … Continue reading »