Archive For September 24th, 2003

Genuine Fractals? Blow up your pictures!

There’s a distinct difference between fractal and raster images. Raster images are the jpeg and gif files you see all over the place. These don’t resize very well. Fractals are made up of mathematical descriptions of the objects in a scene or picture. Using these descriptions it’s possible to resize an image without losing any [...]

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Ford Sportka | The Evil Twin

I saw this short film at www.the-eviltwin.co.uk on “The Panel” on Network 2 the other night. Unfortunately, the site is an awful flash site. To watch the “Evil Twin” movie, click on “View Highlights”, and then click on “Clip one”. It’s a tiny box, and I can’t see any download link for a sane version. [...]

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Spamassassin – scoring on DSL lines

Since upgrading to Spamassassin 2.60 yesterday I’ve noticed a (small) increase in false positives. There were only 4 out of 132 spams caught overnight, but almost all were from dsl or dynamic IP addresses. The default score for this test is 2.5, but if you add the following to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf you can change the score: [...]

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