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As I missed running linux on my desktop I finally decided this evening to take the plunge and load it onto my laptop. Hardware used: - Dell Latitude - PIII 850 My experience with this installation was horrendous, but that was more the laptop's fault than Mandrake's. I had been given copies of the Mandrake install CDs by a friend a few months back. If I loaded them on my desktop … [Read more...] about Mandrake 9.1 on the lap

Once you start offering email filtering people expect it to work 100% of the time and are very unforgiving when they get one or two emails that they shouldn't have. The biggest issue facing anybody offering professional email filtering is balancing the "spam" vs. "ham" (desired email). A lot of email marketing, albeit desired by the recipient, can be easily qualified as "spam" … [Read more...] about The joys of email filtering

I've spent a good bit of the evening trying to persuade Mailman that working would be a good idea. Luckily Niall came to my rescue, but I am still confused as to why it decided to stop working. I am not a happy camper!! … [Read more...] about Mailman and 42go

I was browsing Hotscripts last night when I came across yet another cool little tool based on Amazon XML. Less than two years ago Amazon gave their XML interface a "soft launch" and the number of tools and scripts you can now get to interface with it is simply overwhelming. There are two plugins installed with this blog, both interfacing with ease with the XML stream. On other … [Read more...] about Amazon XML – Cool Tools

This week we saw the arrival of what could best be described as an "intelligent virus". Most viruses rely to some degree on social engineering in order to trick the recipient into clicking on the attachment and thus infecting their PC. However, until now at least, most of these viruses were not that convincing. This week's variant made use of the existing trust that exists … [Read more...] about The Intelligent Virus