Author Archives: ward

verizon e-mail ‘service’

Posted on April 25, 2006 by ward

In the category ‘completely clueless’ Verizon has decided to blacklist half the planet. Or the whole planet, maybe – it would not surprise me given the reports on Broadbandreports, Nanog, Slashdot, and even our local Boston Linux and User Group. … Continue reading →

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phishing

Posted on April 24, 2006 by ward

Received a phishing e-mail that made it through ClamAV. Nothing special about the message but the end: Thank You , Commonwealth Bank of Australia Management Stuff I wouldn’t want to deal with any bank that doesn’t have stuff. Would you?

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quorn

Posted on April 20, 2006 by ward

One of my favorite meat-substitutes is Quorn. It can be hard to find in the US but we picked some up the other day, and today I noticed this bit of text on the packaging: Happily, Quorn products not only … Continue reading →

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GNU/linux/apache 1, microsoft/iis 0

Posted on April 18, 2006 by ward

A picture speaks a thousand words. This article has 2 images that describe “a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture – the same … Continue reading →

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horde

Posted on April 14, 2006 by ward

Debian released a security advisory on Horde yesterday, so I had to upgrade a bunch of machines. I run Horde/IMP from source. Upgrading to a newer version is kind of annoying; I lost a lot of time doing it. In … Continue reading →

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greed (2)

Posted on April 9, 2006 by ward

An update on the Da Vinci Code lawsuit I wrote about earlier. The claimants have lost the case, thankfully. The key quote from the Post article is by a Boston-based lawyer: Copyright protects the expression, not the idea That’s pretty … Continue reading →

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why I dislike Sony

Posted on April 8, 2006 by ward

I’ve had a pretty serious dislike for Sony for a while. I feel Sony management is running the company in the ground by letting the (relatively tiny) content divisions of the Sony empire run the show. This leads to crippled … Continue reading →

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SBC traceroute weirdness

Posted on March 27, 2006 by ward

I’m in Berkeley for 2 days. I’m using my host’s SBC internet connection. Out of curiosity I did a quick traceroute to www.gnu.org (in Boston): $ traceroute www.gnu.org traceroute to gnu.org (199.232.41.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.xx.xx.xx … Continue reading →

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more OpenSPARC

Posted on March 21, 2006 by ward

Yep, Sun kept their promise and released the full chip design for their latest Sparc CPU under the GPLv2. You need a SPARC system with (expensive) commercial software to do anything with the design, but I still think this is … Continue reading →

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WDS

Posted on March 18, 2006 by ward

So I finally got here on Wednesday. We’ve been doing lots of cool stuff meanwhile. I’ve installed a VDSL link between the two main buildings, giving us network access in the Villa. The Zyxel Prestige 841C/841 I bought are reliable, … Continue reading →

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