Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

If you can’t run Spam Assassin (or TMDA, Kevin!) then you’re probably using Windows. Give SpamPal a whirl to filter out your spam. How well does it work?

I ordered a DVD writer and HD from komplett.ie yesterday morning. Earlier I checked the tracking page and saw that my purchases were shipped from Norway last night and arrived in the DHL depot this morning. They arrived a few minutes ago!
This is my second purchase from komplett and I’m very happy with them so far!
Good! Looks like my favourite CD burning software, gcombust supports DVD-r burning!
It looks a bit more complicated if you want to use DVD+RW though. 🙁

Just when I think I have a project finished and sorted out a spanner is thrown into the works clogging everything up and requiring fixing. *bah*

Are you thinking of visiting Ireland? You should take a look at RipOffIreland.org before you do. It’s a sad state of affairs but Ireland is one of the most expensive places to live in Europe. There’s no denying that, but don’t believe everything you read online too. This site was mentioned on Red FM last night and some of the stuff said was simply speculation and opinion.
Also of interest is Irish Fuel Prices.com, ‘a site which monitors fuel prices from around the country.’
Lots of other good links via Google too.

There’s a new release of this email security tool out now. This is a recommended upgrade as it has filters for some of the newer exploits out there.

I was sick and out of the office on Friday, but this morning I was shocked to discover 40 spam emails in my inbox! After moving them into my ‘SA training folder” I checked my spam folder – 577 emails! wow! Almost half of them were from Thursday night and Friday.
Then I checked my CorkLUG mail queue. 289 emails. Lots of them were viruses, but the majority were spams.
How much personal mail did I get? (outside of mailing lists, automated bug reports, crontab output..) 5 emails.
Add on to that 841 viruses, or 125MB of email caught by my mail server..

Kasia’s having a rough time of it with comment spammers, but I like an idea expressed in the comments of this post. Print an image containing text that the user must input to submit their comment. That’ll stop bots spamming your blogs at least. There’s also lots more good info in the comments there.
Update! But it’s not good for accessibility reasons. 🙁
Thanks Alex for that link.

SSH bouncing – connect 2 boxes behind natted firewalls. This would have been handy when I was in Chicago!
Hey! that site runs on WordPress too!

If you use spamassassin you should disable Osirusoft as it shut down last week and now returns true on all requests! Thanks Kasia!

Fascinating page from the Wikipedia on the Irish Language. Starting from an overview of the different dialects found around the country to the history of the language it finished by discussing the Irish language used today.

In spite of all the efforts since Ireland achieved independence (some critics claim because of those efforts) the Irish language is in rapid and perhaps terminal decline… The death of the Gaeltachtaí would make a break forever between Ireland’s cultural past and identity and its future. All sides… …agree that such a loss would be a cultural tragedy of monumental scale.