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Category Archives: General Technology

Spam Levels and Trends

02-Jun-07

Based on what comes through my inbox, I am seeing a firm trend away from malicious, designed-to-destroy-your-hard-drive-virus-laden messages. The payload of spam today is focused on money, through use of one of these two techniques:

Getting the recipient to take action that results in confirming an address (a click-back indicates the address is valid, a [...]

Yum … not the restaurant company

30-Apr-07

I found myself explaining Yum recently, and thought that it would make a good posting. What is Yum and why do I want to use it instead of RPM? The short answer is you use it with RPM.
Yum is Yellow Dog Updater - Modified. It can best be described as everything you [...]

Collabnet Purchases SourceForge EE

25-Apr-07

Today Collabnet announced an agreement to purchase SourceForge Enterprise Edition:
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/070425/lnux8-k.html

Let the consolidation war begin.

Nationwide Blackberry Service Outage

18-Apr-07

As of 7:42am PDT today, Wed April 18, 2007 Blackberry is confirming a nationwide (U.S.) service outage. No ETA for service resolution (as of 7:42am today).
This outage appears to have been first reported as early as yesterday at 8:24pm PDT.
Update: Service is being restored  “…an overnight outage that left millions of users without service”.

AJAX Logfile Tailer & Viewer

13-Apr-07

Recently I had a need for a simple logfile viewer for use in some stuff we have planned at Freepository. But this log file viewer had a few requirements that made it unique: it had to get the log file contents from the server in small chunks, not tie up the browser (such as [...]