Silly title I'll admit, but somebody brought my attention to the dichotomy expressed by an Irish site today. Although they claim to support linux etc., they host their main site on Windows. Now we can all accept that for various commercial reasons people will host and develop on a variety of platforms, but surely from a philosophical standpoint their position is quite … [Read more...] about Is linux good enough?
Techie Toys
Techies like toys, but I'm never too sure whether I should be classified as a techie or not. I guess I'm not really when I compare myself to some of my peers.. In either case I DO like my techie toys. This year so far has been good to me in that area. Last year I was one of the first people to pilot a 3G network in Italy using H3G (tre) . The handset is a NEC e606. The jury is … [Read more...] about Techie Toys
IRC bot revisited
Well we finally managed to get the bot to respond! I would love to say that I solved the problem, but that would be a blatant lie! I only managed to find part of the solution - Kenshin filled in the gaps … [Read more...] about IRC bot revisited
IRC bots
I've setup a simple IRC bot on one of our channels on quakenet. The bot accepts certain commands and also stores facts (factoids). I saw a very nice implementation of this kind of bot over on lspace where a lot of the ILUG guys hangout. Our bot is nowhere near as advanced and probably never will be, but it's rather amusing to watch the reaction of people who've never seen one … [Read more...] about IRC bots
spamhaus
Spamhaus have recently launched a new RBL for public use. We've been playing with it for the last few days... So far the results have been very good. As it pushed up the spamscore on emails that may have made it though the loop You can get information about the RBLs on their site : http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/index.lasso … [Read more...] about spamhaus