Knaap.com recent additions
Tue, 01 Jan 2008
Spam '07
Email to this domain in 2007: 64,000 messages; 95% spam.
Tue, 07 Nov 2006
Memo to self
Mythtv: remote did not work. Error in /var/log/messages:
could not get file information for /dev/lirc
Makes sense, since it is called /dev/lirc0. Fix: go into /etc/init.d/lircd and put --device=/dev/lirc0 in the startup command.
Fri, 21 Apr 2006
Spam fumbles
Failing spam 101:
Thu, 09 Mar 2006
Take that, Enigma
So I decided to run this Enigma WWII codebreaker simulation that lets you crack old German submarine messages and guess what: in between recording Spooks and Lost, our *video* decoded one of them:
| [knaap@video ~]$ telnet bytereef.org 50000 |
| Trying 213.239.194.122... |
| Connected to bytereef.org (213.239.194.122). |
| Escape character is '^]'. |
| Here you can check if you have submitted a winning result |
| for the second break (March 7th 2006) of the M4 Project. |
| Enter your IP address and hit the Return key: |
| Congratulations! You have submitted a winning result. |
| Connection closed by foreign host. |
Fri, 25 Feb 2005
Shazam
Wow, since we got DSL my friends at the ISP upped the speed twice. Without asking!
Mon, 03 Jan 2005
Popfile stats
| emails classified | 6,875 |
| legit | 3,127 (45.49%) |
| spam | 3,748 (54.51%) |
| filter accuracy: | 99.6% |
Popfile says: more than half of my email in the second half of 2004 was spam. Up from one third.
Mon, 22 Nov 2004
Things you know you'll regret
Today is the day I bolted the family PC to the underside of the family desk. Which does wonders for the available area on the sunny side. Now I only need to keep that clean...
Thu, 18 Nov 2004
Credibility
From National Geographic Channel's Hackers, this young man speaks about the root user, who controls everything. Note the translation.
Sat, 07 Aug 2004
Bugs
While working fine during most of the summer, our PC shut down just before we returned from the US. When I opened the case, it turned out there was a small short caused by - this bug? Looks like an original computer bug.
Tue, 23 Mar 2004
Great,
now the president of the galaxy is spamming me with viruses.
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:00:51 +0100
From: zaphod_beeblebrox@eudoramail.com
To: heinz@knaap.com
Subject: Re: Re: Message
