The US elections are almost upon us. Unfortunately I won't be able to vote, as I am not a US citizen. Unfortunately I am a citizen of this planet, so I will be affected by the US electorate's choice. At least you would think that the it was the US electorate's choice .... I remember the last elections all too well and all the controversy surrounding them. What I wasn't aware of … [Read more...] about US elections … Michael Moore
killing the antispammers
Useful procmail recipes here to stop CR junk hitting your mailbox … [Read more...] about killing the antispammers
Web Awards – Do they hold any merit?
It's that time of the year again when the nominations open up for the annual batch of web awards. At times I wonder if some of these awards are of any "real" value, but maybe that's due to a certain degree of cynicism on my part. The IIA have organised the Net Visionaries again. Unlike some of the other awards out there this one is completely "open", so anybody who wants to can … [Read more...] about Web Awards – Do they hold any merit?
Broken DNS entries
DNS is a fundamental part of the internet's fabric. Break it and thing's start going wrong. If your zones do not comply to the RFCs then all sorts of strange things can happen. We host quite a few domains, so our nameserver information is public (obviously). Unfortunately some people seem to think that by pointing a domain at our nameservers it will "magically" get into our … [Read more...] about Broken DNS entries
x.org 6.8.1 – transparency and more
I installed x.org 6.8.1 on my desktop (debian unstable) yesterday to see what it was like. The installation was quite painless, but getting it to work properly did require some work. The documentation on the X.org site is fine for compilation / installation but does not cover usage and configuration. I found some documentation, with pointers, on the gentoo site, however the … [Read more...] about x.org 6.8.1 – transparency and more