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Spam

Habeas about to prove themselves

Habeas, an company who sells copyrighted x-header tags, known as “Habeas Warrant Mark” to companies who abide by their rules regarding spam, in return for avoiding spam filters (yes copyrights actually can benefit the internet community). It has a rather large backing from email providers and spam filters. Habeas has recently been under attack. As of about 11 AM, PST, Sunday January 11, 2004, an “unknown spammer” has been using the tags. The spam often has a title similar to “Get X(a)n@x, Valï(u)m, V|@gra, Som(a) Diet Pills Many Meds”, and is blacklisted by most DNSBL’s. Will copyright prevail and save the internet from Spam?

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Networking

SanDisk and WiFi support for Palm OS 4

I always wanted WiFi for my Sony Clie T665C (Palm OS 4). I emailed SanDisk out of curiosity, and here was my reply:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting SanDisk Technical Support. We do not have Palm support and do not know when we will. There are business issues with Palm Source that are preventing us from delivering a solution. We apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused you.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to reply to this e-mail or contact our technical support department toll free at 866-SANDISK (866-726-3475). Our technical support team is open Monday through Friday, 7 am to 4 pm PST. Have a Great Day and thank you for choosing SanDisk!

Interesting to hear. I wish I could get WiFi on my T665C. It’s a great PDA, minus this one feature. I wonder what exactly is keeping San Disk from Supporting the Palm OS with their WiFI adapters? My Memory Stick slot would be a great solution.

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Programming

My accomplishments for these past few weeks

I’ve been off, but what have I accomplished?

  • Patch for Mozilla Bug 94787.
  • Learned a bit of Javascript, and some XUL (hopefully more Mozilla work soon).
  • Some updates to blog templates/atom feed/other blog stuff.
  • Patch for SpamAssassin Bug 2889.
  • Installed Mantis Bug Tracking system for MacVillage.net.
  • Benderupdates some stats hourly to this webserver.
  • Remastered master HTML template for MacVillage.net, cutting several Kb off of pagesize, and hopefully HTML 4.01/Transitional Valid.
  • Wrote several hundred lines of PHP for backend systems (vast majority of my time).
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In The News

Baby Names

Some of the names on this list remind me of the “sissy names” George Carlin made fun of back when he taped Complaints and Grievances for HBO (great show, I was there). Guys named Todd.

According to Babynames.com, the top 20 baby names:

Top 20 boys names:

  1. Aidan/Aiden/Aden
  2. Jaden/Jayden
  3. Caden/Kaden
  4. Ethan
  5. Caleb
  6. Dylan
  7. Jacob
  8. Jordan
  9. Logan
  10. Hayden
  11. Connor
  12. Ryan
  13. Morgan
  14. Cameron
  15. Andrew
  16. Joshua
  17. Noah
  18. Matthew
  19. Addison
  20. Ashton

Top 20 girls’ names

  1. Madison
  2. Emma
  3. Abigail
  4. Riley
  5. Chloe
  6. Hannah
  7. Alexis
  8. Isabella
  9. Mackenzie
  10. Taylor
  11. Olivia
  12. Hailey
  13. Paige
  14. Emily
  15. Grace
  16. Ava
  17. Aaliyah
  18. Alyssa
  19. Faith
  20. Brianna
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Mozilla

Securita

Quite some time ago, I started the Securita project, to implement a word filter, capable of providing adequate protection to those who wish to employ such technology.

Not much has happened in that project.

I believe, with Firebird approaching 1.0 sooner than people think (it’s not that far off), now is the time to seriously consider getting such an extension of the ground. There is demand for such a product, as I’ve gotten several emails in recent months regarding the status of the project. Just this evening, listening to the Computer Outlook Radio broadcast, (where several Mozilla Foundation Employees talked). 39:00 into the broadcast, there’s a mention of such a product, and the admission we don’t have one. Unfortunately, A good deal of the blame goes to me.

But I want to rectify that.

Unfortunately, I’m still not enough of a programmer to be laying out the source code. So I am making a request for someone to aid me in getting this project going full speed. Those interested, should contact me.

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Funny

Friends foil Olympia Man’s Home

This is absolutely wonderful.

One of the better pranks I’ve heard of in recent times. Creative fun. And I love the picture of that book.

πŸ˜€

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Funny

Stephen Lynch needs Help

Stephen Lynch needs some help:

Comedy Central is having their 2nd annual Standup Showdown. All this month, you can vote for your favorite comedian’s episode of “Comedy Central Presents…” The winner gets their special rebroadcast. Thanks to you, I came in first last year, and I’d like to again this year so maybe they’ll let me do a new special. You can vote at:
http://www.comedycentral.com/standup/showdown/

Also of note:

I’ll be posting more dates soon. The DVD should be out some time this Spring. I’ll post info when I get it. Thanks for all your support. See you soon

VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Note: Comedy Central apparently has a little issue with Mozilla, so prepare to fire up your non-Mozilla browser for this one, and hope Comedy Central’s Web Development team gets off their butts and fixes it.

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Software

Thank you Norton, for wasting an hour of my life

I gave you the best hour of my life!

Ok, it wasn’t that bad.

Symantec, apparently deployed a new version of Live Update today, and it apparently wasn’t well tested. After days of serious virus catches, it updated, and live updated, doesn’t function. I uninstall, reinstall, uninstall again, clear registry out a bit, search for files, look in Knowledge Base, reinstall. I got it working (think they disabled that update for now).

What a mess.

So for any Symantec engineer reading this. THANK YOU. That was fun πŸ™

Try beta testing next time.

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Blog

Weblog Awards

The Fourth Annual Weblog Awards are going on.

I won’t put a shameless plug here, but remember who informed you about the awards going on.

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Apple

Tech Pr0n

If you haven’t checked out the Apple video of Virginia Tech’sBig Mac“, you should do so NOW!

The datacenter pics made me salivate. Yummy. I wouldn’t mind having just 1. Forget about 1,100!