There's a new wave of political spam hitting mailservers across Europe and presumably the globe. Most of it seems to be in German, though some subject lines in English have been reported. It looks like they are being sent by zombie PCs. This is very similar to the nazi spam which was spotted about 14 months ago. Update: Raymond has released an SA ruleset to block most of this … [Read more...] about New “political” spam
Food Glorious Spanish Food
Superquinn have an interesting selection of Spanish desserts including natillas and arroz con leche from Goshua. They are delicious! … [Read more...] about Food Glorious Spanish Food
Cool Flash Game – Star Wars
Very cool: http://www.boadle.com/red5/ And yes - it is Star Wars NOT Star Trek … [Read more...] about Cool Flash Game – Star Wars
Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress – racist undertones?
I finished reading Digital Fortress last night. On the positive side it is a "good read", as long as you are not expecting to enrich your intellect by reading it. You could probably describe it as a good thriller, with a number of interesting twists to the plot. The story unfolds in two locations, the NSA in the US and Seville, Spain. As is to be expected in this genre of … [Read more...] about Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress – racist undertones?
MailScanner – spam.assassin.prefs.conf
If you are upgrading from an older install be very careful with the spam.assassin.prefs.conf, as the latest version that ships with MS has a number of changes in it that can cause issues with your Bayes' settings ie. location of the files With older installs you may have place the files in: /var/spool/spamassassin you would have set the path to bayes to … [Read more...] about MailScanner – spam.assassin.prefs.conf