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.
Update! That site is gone, but you can get the Ford Sport Ka ads here: http://www.allowe.com/Humor/video.htm – just scroll down a little. Thanks Brian for getting that!
Here’s a lot more info about the advert. Good read.
Author Archives: Donncha
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:
score RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 0 1 0 1
That’ll give it a ‘1’ instead of 2.5 which is probably more reasonable. (Ironically, most of the emails caught were from “Karsten M. Self”, a critic of TMDA, who posts directly from his dial-up machine!)
Plug and Pray
Cork City slang filter anyone?
Basing my work on that done by Dougal before me, I’m going to try and write a Cork City slang filter for the site. Don’t worry, it’ll be optional, because as it says here, “C’mere biya.I realise some of de feenos and de wans have pure hassle with de Cork speak like. So have a lash of it and there’ll be less gowls around. How bad!”
New poll on the CorkLUG site
It’s OT for the site, but important IMO. A new poll on the CorkLUG site asks, “Should smoking be banned in the work place and pubs on January 1st?” I’ve already voted but please don’t abuse it by voting multiple times.
Piratizing your blog
Thanks to Dougal Campbell for writing a Pirate filter on his site. I copied the code and put it into a Smarty plugin. It’s available here for everyone on blogs.linux.ie to use as follows:
- Open the Template Editor of your blog and bring up the “Posting” template.
- Look for the
{$the_content}variable in there. - You have to pass that variable to the
piratefunction:{pirate content=$the_content}. If you’re using thehighlightsearchmodifier, then use this code instead:{pirate content=$the_content|highlightsearch}. - Save the template and reload your blog. If it doesn’t update, then click on the “Refresh Site” link in the backend.
Oh, of course, it’ll only work today, as it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!
UF has a special Pirate Talk Day feature today! 🙂
openssh & sendmail updates
Advisories for both OpenSSH and Sendmail were released over the past few days. Both packages had remotely exploitable bugs.
I forgot to blog this yesterday, but the RPMs available from Red Hat are also on apt-rpm. Just do an apt-get upgrade to upgrade your server.
Looking for a house?
Eddie Irvine’s house is for sale, and a steal at the €6.5m guide price!
The RIAA For Dummies – 60 Second Edition
Tim has a frightening cartoon explaining copyright. Dare you sing’ Happy Birthday!’ now? You might get busted!
PHP Newsletter software
PHPList was mentioned on various blogs a few weeks back and we’ve used it here a few times. I’m not 100% happy with it however as it’s missing some glaring features and those make sending emails very difficult.
I searched freshmeat.net earlier today and installed LetterIt, a similar piece of software from Germany.
It’s a fairly simple program, doesn’t look very flash, but it does work well, and we just sent out a mailing to over 1,000 customers this afternoon with it.