I spent all day Monday at the IIA conference in Clontarf. Most of the bigger names were represented, including Microsoft, Macromedia and Realex, though the quality of the talks had little to do with the size of the companies involved. The IEDR gave an interesting talk on DNS and updates within the IEDR, while Realex provided some general tips on implementing credit card … [Read more...] about IIA Conference
Archives for September 2004
Firefox PR1
This browser is really taking off! The latest preview release added a bunch of new features including: - RSS support: bookmark any RSS feed - SSL: The location menu changes colour if you are using SSL - Search: much more advanced - Live Updates - download patches on the fly without quitting the browser. This works on windows at least. I haven't been able to test it on Debian … [Read more...] about Firefox PR1
Beamish revisited
Tom is continuing with his campaign to force/persuade Beamish to do something with their offices in the centre of Cork. He is currently running a poll, which looks like it will draw rather amusing results - albeit not for Beamish & Crawford. … [Read more...] about Beamish revisited
Spam Assassin 3 problems
Spam Assassin 3 was released the other day, so I started rolling it out across as many servers as possible. We had already been testing it on a couple without encountering any issues, so putting the stable version should have been quite easy. In most cases it was, except for one Red Hat 9 server. It simply refused to go on properly. If I got it past the install, either via … [Read more...] about Spam Assassin 3 problems
BitDefender issue
A number of people reported severe problems with the bitdefender update scripts yesterday. Seemingly the processes were hanging and eating up CPU. Kevin Spicer found a good interim solution: vim /usr/lib/MailScanner/bitdefender-autoupdate Comment out the following two lines: LINE 190 system "$bitDCmd > $origFile "; LINE 253 system "$bitDCmd > $destFile "; You then need to … [Read more...] about BitDefender issue