Rather than try to reinvent the wheel and in order to keep in tune with the Open Source / Technical flavour of Skycon.... I've decided to give the talk on email filtering using MailScanner... Since that sounds very uninspired I'll see if I can come up with a sexier title. How about: Mine's big enough! - Filtering 50,000 users' mail using open source technology It doesn't have … [Read more...] about SkyCon Talk Topic
Open Source
WordPress 2.1 Released
Wordpress 2.1 has been released. Some of the new features may be attractive but, as usual, you should check that plugins etc., are compatible before upgrading. A plugin compatibility checklist is available as part of the documentation project. According to the documentation most of the more popular plugins will work fine. So what's new? Autosave - handy if you're writing … [Read more...] about WordPress 2.1 Released
Skycon Talk?
Laura has put a gun to my head. I have to decide on a topic for my talk at Skycon and I've got about 24 hours to do it. For once I won't be the only representative from Blacknight presenting!! Paul, in a possible moment of madness, also agreed to give a talk. As he's a hardcore geek he'll probably be right at home, whereas I'm a little more wary. What should I give a talk … [Read more...] about Skycon Talk?
WordPress Security Holes (Again)
Wordpress 2.0.7 was released unexpectedly last night to address security concerns. Have a look at Jason's blog for some of the background info. … [Read more...] about WordPress Security Holes (Again)
The Danger of the “rm” command
If any of you are wondering why the theme has changed completely and several of the plugins etc., have vanished... Well I just taught myself a nice little lesson about the dangers of using the following: rm -r -f * I successfully cleaned up my blog by killing it :) Oh well! It was about time I cleaned up, as there were plugins and God only knows what else dating back about 3 … [Read more...] about The Danger of the “rm” command