Kosh’s Web Log

I bought a new bicycle last weekend, a Giant Boulder, well not literally, just a Bicycle from Giant called Boulder. I finally got some pictures of it to show off.

Disc Brakes - I hadn’t even realised disc brakes were available on a bicycle till I went to get my old bike repaired and saw these (it hadn’t been in for repair in around 9 years). The seat needs to be replaced, it hurts like hell to keep riding on it and it isn’t “good for the plums” as i’ve heard it described.

I’ve been having a spam problem for a LONG time, considering I use catch-alls on my domains doesn’t help much, but I usually get in excess of 1500 spam messages a day.  Since I only get around 10-15 legitimate mail, that makes me go insane.

TMDA stops most of the spam messages, but alot of spammers now use email addresses at your domain or your own email address to get through spam blockers, I’ve had spamassassin running with TMDA, but it just hasn’t cut the muster yet.

The other day I was stumbling along looking for ways to mount an sftp host on a drive in windows (as I have yet to write an article about my fun with curlftpfs and sshfs on linux) and stumbled across POPfile, which is a basic bayesian filter for mail.

POPfile looks nice, but I use exchange for my email, and things that work with exchange can usually be counted on one hand …

Here is where Outclass appears, Outclass uses POPfile as a plugin for outlook, and I have to agree, after going through 2000+ messages last night, it can even tell the difference between Yahoo Groups posts and spam, it does have difficulty with those stock spam messages, but hey, it’s so far cut down the 100-200 or so spam I get in my inbox to 2-3.

If I had one complaint, it was that processing can stall on LONG lists of emails, when I first loaded it, Outclass tried to parse every message in my inbox (4000+) which froze outlook, and it never came back (I gave it about an hour to try), after I logged back in and moved the messages out, I classified them manually then moved them to Deleted Items or Inbox as appropriate, worked like a charm. (Also good fodder for training POPfile’s filters)

Hans Reiser, the guy who started the ReiserFS project was arrested under suspicion of murdering his wife …

Just shows that even in the altruistic ub3r geeks there is bad apples.

I reactivated my g729 licenses on the temporary box so I could get to sleep, now that I have built up a new asterisk 1.4 box and set it up, I have to wait until tuesday to reactivate the licenses so I can use them.

So in the meantime clients and friends who ring the VoIP system i’m running get silences and interruptions.

Ugh.

I’m almost tempted to pay another $100 USD for 10 more licenses, but … they won’t be setup until … Tuesday, damn America and it’s time difference.

Riddle me this Batman. I have a file, fstab, if I add a line it shrinks in size.

entropy:/etc# ls -al fstab
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 610 2006-10-05 20:52 fstab
entropy:/etc# cat fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#            

My phone server Magi, died yesterday

It appears the power supply fan went, and since i’ve had “shutdown issues” with it before, I saw it had been down for 17 hours two days ago, and I just powered it off, flushed it then powered it back on, never inspecting the PSU.

Now it looks to be long gone, I’ve put the hard drive and the digium TDM card into another box, but it runs like crap on there.

I know that this is the opinion of alot of geeks, I remember reading an article earlier about this.Since Vista will have activation in ALL versions (either Volume Activation or Individual Activation) why aren’t they dropping the price of Vista ?

Aren’t we putting up with being accused of piracy everytime we install so that piracy is reduced (or apparently wiped out), so where is our cheaper operating system ?

I know it sounds simplistic, but thinking about it, Vista is going to be VERY expensive, and we’re back to the “You are a pirate” (Do what you want because a pirate is free :P, Had to say it).

This reminds me of MPAA/RIAA arguments, “Profits on DVD’s and Movies are dropping”, and they can’t realise that the movies coming out now are CRAP.

I used to goto the movies almost once a week, sometimes a bit more often, rewatching classics and seeing new features. Now I can’t be bothered leaving the house to see the latest “man/woman in search of love meets man/woman and courtship progresses as per formula #22″ or the crap action movies coming out.

Now i’m only looking forward to 2 or 3 movies, and they’re pretty far away. Halo (the movie), The Prestige (CAD put me onto this) and Pirates of the Carribean 3.

My rants really get sidetracked.

Had to do it.

Revenge is best served with a side of parsley and some carrots.

Better late than never.  This is from my Townsville trip.

This was a joke among Bir0, myself and some of Bir0’s group.

I remember my first post, it was a nice crisp spring day, the sun was shining, and i’m full of crap.

I remember when I started this, my goal was to “put back in what I take out” of the Internet, sorta living “Internet Neutral”

It’s kinda good to see that 5 people in the month of October (so far) have gained something from my site.