Pale Blue Dot
Voyager 1, which took this famous image of Earth as a “pale blue dot,” offered a new perspective on our home planet. If NASA greenlights this interstellar mission, it could last 100 years
Only Murders in the Building
Another series I finished last week and really enjoyed, some fun twists and turns and I always have a soft spot in my heart for Steve Martin. It is on Hulu and has be renewed for a second season. What I can’t decide is how I feel about them dropping one a week instead of
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Dune
I loved the new Dune. It was audibly fantastic and visually spectacular. One friend said that you would be lost if you had not read the books, but I have read the books so… Check it out.
procmail whitelist vs. spamassassin
for the past few months i’ve had spamassassin setup to send just about everything to my “caughtspam” file expect what i had specifically whitelisted, as seen here from my spamassassin local.cf file: required_hits -100.1 report_safe 1 use_bayes 1 skip_rbl_checks 0 use_razor2 0 use_dcc 1 use_pyzor ok_languages en ok_locales en whitelist_from *sears.com whitelist_from *plaind.com ****snip my
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suburban warming
Clear Skies 55°F i don’t know about the whole globe, but it sure is warm here at the end of january in the suburbs. i was able to get rid of the last of the fall leaves, (nine bags worth), wash the cars (inside and out), and even take a walk with the kids.
long arguments
we get a lot of spam at work, and it tends to fill up the mqueue folder on the spam assassin server with bogus returns, to the point where i have to go in and rm a bunch of the older messages to get the server to calm down. but rm can only handle a
vagaries of nagios
nagios is a great open source service/server monitor, i’ve been using it for a very long time. one thing i noticed, however, as you update the various config files, if you make a mistake and try to start nagios again it will report this error: [root@ethereal nagios]# ./nagios.initscript start Starting network monitor: nagios No lock
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