January 19, 2006 – 9:25 am
In a previous post, I have expressed the common thinking that digitally signed emails would be a strong spam stopper.
I am still thinking that a more general usage of electronic signatures would be really effective to fight against spammers, but it recently occurred to me that, at least before we reach that stage, publishing one’s [...]
December 7, 2005 – 10:22 am
My provider has recently changed the IP address of one of my server and my logs are flooded with messages such as:
Dec 7 08:21:57 gwnormandy postfix/smtp[22362]: connect to mx00.schlund.de[212.227.15.134]: server refused to talk to me: 421 Mails from this IP temporarily refused: Dynamic IP Addresses See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?213.41.184.90 (port 25)
Dec 7 08:21:57 [...]
November 22, 2005 – 11:15 am
Media types (previously called mime types) always stuck me as something which is simple in theory but awfully complex in practise.
When they seem to be working, you can enjoy your luck and be sure that this is only temporary before the next release of software X or Y: after the recent upgrade from Ubuntu Hoary [...]
October 15, 2005 – 10:42 am
Quand on installe des paquets provenant de sources non officielles, il arrive fréquemment que les dépendances déclarées dans les paquets ne correspondent pas au système sur lequel on installe ces paquets.
C’est le cas par exemple lorsque l’on installe la version courante d’Opera sur Ubuntu 5.10 “BreezyBadger” ou celle de Skype sur Ubunto 5.04 “HoaryHedgehog” :
vdv@vaio:~ [...]
October 7, 2005 – 9:39 am
Why would you want to do that?
Orbeon PresentationServer is currently shipping with eXist 1.0 beta2.
This is true of both OPS version 2.8 (the current stable release) and OPS 3.0 beta 3 (the latest beta of the next generation).
While eXist 1.0 beta2 is described as the stable version of the Open source XML database, their web [...]
February 1, 2004 – 4:00 pm
Comme promis, j’ai fini par transcrire la présentation d’Antoine Quint à sparklingPoint.
Ce faisant, j’en ai profité pour aller plus loin et publier également la version sonore de son intervention et comme cela, sans être très complexe, a justifié l’utilisation de pas mal d’outils différents (sous Linux/Debian), je vais en décrire ici les grandes lignes.
Le première [...]
January 28, 2004 – 11:50 am
Last week, when “W32.Beagle.A@mm” started to spread out, I decided to switch my mailing lists to “moderated”.
Not that my subscribers can be affected by viruses (I configure my mailing lists to scrap binary attachments to reduce the risk), but a flurry of mails saying “Hi” was something I wanted to avoid, even if they are [...]