Archive For February 21st, 2003
Cringely writes another interesting column. Our programs instant messaging each other? Hmm. Very difficult job to do.
A look at setting up an open source mailserver. He picked Sendmail. Must take a look at smtp_auth for my own use.
The Register reports a worrying attack on PIN numbers, although “the risk of attack comes from a corrupt insider, perhaps in computer operations and with access to sensitive manuals, who might be able to use the attack to refine what would otherwise be a brute force attempt to guess PIN numbers.” And with a maximum [...]
This script looks like it’d be very handy for those of us who have to accept mail from Outlook users. ytnef is a program to work with procmail to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat attachments) like those created with Outlook. Unlike other similar programs, it can also create vCalendar/vCard entries from meeting requests, address cards, and [...]
Re: Last Admin Test. via ILUG. 1] Name two ways to disable a users account. Disable the user, or merely threaten them with violence if they touch a machine.
*phew* Got a lot done tonight: b2 is playing nicely with Smarty. The main index page, comments, trackback and pingback popups are working. I modified the template edit page to edit the .tpl files in the template directory *only* as the user really shouldn’t be seeing PHP. The most complex code in the templates is [...]
New major release of SpamAssassin is out. Version 2.50 has lots of updates and bug fixes. Jeremy has more on his site!
Mozilla upstart looks up to Safari. A small band of software developers tired of code and feature bloat are building yet another browser based on Mozilla. A new development project called Epiphany has splintered from the Galeon effort, which also was formed to create a simplified Mozilla-based browser for Gnome.
