So, this Saturday, I jumped out of an airplane.
The jump was a birthday present for my father, who has always been very interested in everything related to planes. But of course, when we gave him the gift certificate, it went without saying that me and my brother would jump as well.
And it was COOL! All three of us loved it.
My shiny new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet arrived this week, and I like it!
(Bias alert: my friend Dirk-Jan works for Nokia in Finland as a project manager on the N810, so that made me a little more interested in this gadget than I would otherwise have been.)
This post is not going to contain any original insights into the spam problem, but I need to vent a bit. And, as the title suggests, apparently the news still hasn’t reached all the people it needs to reach, so maybe it won’t hurt to repeat it again.
So yesterday, as happens every couple of months, a spammer somewhere in Pakistan decided to randomly pick the mwolf.net domain as the fake ‘from’ address for his various unsavoury commercial offerings. Which means, of course, that I get a few hundred bounces from well-meaning but naive mailservers, configured by well-meaning but naive admins. Read the rest of this entry »
Hi all,
I have reason to believe that some of my mail from my mwolf.net account is not reaching the intended recipients. If you sent me an e-mail recently and did not get a response from me, it may be that I sent one but it didn’t arrive. If this is the case, please re-send your message and I will try to reach you though some other way. Alternatively, you can leave a comment on this post. Sorry for the inconvenience.
And yes, I am aware that I have not posted anything new on this blog for the past half year or so..
In response to my article about using the recent IPTables module to fight brute-force password attacks, based on an idea from Andrew Pollock, a reader worked out the idea into a complete firewall script, with configurable whitelisting, the ability to block multiple ports, and several other enhancements. Read his post for the details.
You can download his firewall script here. You can contact the author at the address meetscott at the domain netscape.net.
It took me a while, but I got my XS4ALL UMTS subscription through their “mobile connect card”, working under Linux.
I started out, of course, with the procedure described here. That worked to the point that I was succesfully authenticated and connected to the network, but then PPPD immediately complained that the modem hung up.
After I left my previous job I was in the market for a new laptop, so after a bit of searching I purchased a Sony VAIO SZ2XP. I’m very happy with it, although every now and then I get some doubts over whether I should have bought the TX model instead. Either way, it’s a beautiful machine, very lightweight (1.65kg) but it feels sturdier than most laptops I’m familiar with (not including those 17″, 4kg desktop replacement beasts). Very good specs, and it’s pretty much the only laptop I could find with both a PCMCIA and a PC-Express slot, which was an important criterion for me.