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Tue, 01 Jan 2008

Spam '07

Email to this domain in 2007: 64,000 messages; 95% spam.

posted at: 12:18 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

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.

posted at: 06:49 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

Fri, 21 Apr 2006

Spam fumbles

Failing spam 101:

posted at: 13:17 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

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.

posted at: 02:40 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

Fri, 25 Feb 2005

Shazam

Wow, since we got DSL my friends at the ISP upped the speed twice. Without asking!

posted at: 13:32 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

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.

posted at: 12:02 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

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...

posted at: 04:46 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

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.

posted at: 08:22 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

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.

posted at: 04:38 | path: /en/computers | permanent link

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

posted at: 01:40 | path: /en/computers | permanent link