Well all the waiting is over. The latest stable version of Debian, codenamed Sarge, has finally been released: http://ftp.debian.org/dists/stable/Release - read the version info at the top of the file (nicely spotted davew) There's a couple of mentions over on Planet Debian, but nothing major. I updated my apt sources last week in preparation for the final release, so that's … [Read more...] about Debian Sarge Released
Techie :: Techno ::
New URI blacklists
URIBL has recently launched with four new blacklists of URIs. The criteria are similar as those used by SURBL. There are four lists currently available: * black.uribl.com - Which is an aggresive list of known spammers. With a goal of zero False Positives. * grey.uribl.com - Which lists people who spam and have legitimate uses. This will cause False Positives for some depending … [Read more...] about New URI blacklists
More demented spam filters
Today I discovered that Comodo had launched a "wonderful" new anti-spam product. It's great! It will stop all spam effectively. It will also stop any effective communication via email in the process, but surely that is a small price to pay for keeping your inbox clean? I think not. I tried to send a business email to them today but got this really "helpful" message back from … [Read more...] about More demented spam filters
Search.ie – revamp underway
Over the last year the traffic and submissions to search.ie have grown exponentially. Unfortunately the number of spammers submitting rubbish has increased as well. The site was originally using Links 2 which uses a flatfile database with a perl frontend. Although it was very flexible in terms of templates etc., it did not scale very well, so I moved it to using a MySQL based … [Read more...] about Search.ie – revamp underway
AIB for business – or how pulling teeth is fun
Why the hell do AIB insist on conducting maintenance on Mondays? Their site has been pig slow all morning and the business banking section has been inaccessible. I'm getting really tired of this. I can't access it with anything except for IE on windows, which severely limits me. They've been promising to update the entire business banking thing to use a sane version of Java, … [Read more...] about AIB for business – or how pulling teeth is fun