Finally i got my summer hair cut. 5-10cm shorter. It feels strange to feel every breeze on my scalp. <insert complaint about hairloss here>
Building a Spamtrap with Spamassasin
I am currently trying to build a spamtrap with Spamassasin. The idea: I add
another emailaddress to my website. Every email to that address is piped to “sa-learn –spam”. My problem, sa-learn needs to save the gathered information somewhere, and i am not sure where. It looks like spamc stores the information from autolearning on the spamd-server, but sa-learn stores the information local. I don’t want to run a mailserver on the spamd-machine just for this task. Any ideas?
Xinerama
Today I finally set up Xinerama for the first time. I am now running with XFree86 with 2560×1024 taking advantage of my Matrox G550 Dual Head. I am still looking for double-sized Wallpapers especially one with a daemon. I am still experimenting with the position of the KDE kicker. At the moment it is in the middle covering both monitors. But it is not possible to configure absolute positions for the kicker applets, so i have to adjust the positions depending on the number of open windows.
Here is my XF86Config:
Why am I always doing something at the last minute?
I might as well copy&paste the entry from April.
Today, in fact yesterday or half an hour ago, was the deadline to submit a document for the “Folgenabsch�tzung von IT” course. I had the whole month time to work on this document, but i started yesterday at around 14.00.
Of course my document is very short, in German and of poor quality. But finally, now the real holidays start (including upgrading my CURRENT boxes to gcc 3.4 and start ports fixing)
BTW. This is the first time i have used Quanta to write an HTML document. It crashed once (I can’t remember my gvim crashing), but luckily it recovered most of the unsaved document. The UI is cluttered with a lot of non-intuitive useless controls, but the tag autocompletion is something you can get used to.
New Toy
Today I discovered JuK‘s trm support and the backend Musicbrainz.
It is really funny to submit a number of my mp3’s and compare the results.
Often they really match or at least guess the artist right, but sometimes they are just totally wrong, like when they confuse Patent Ochsner (a suisse german Band) with Rick Astley or Subway to Sally with The Beatles or even Aphrodite with Louis Armstrong
Ugly FreeBSD
Yar sent a pointer to Hendrik Scholz’ FreeBSD source keyword statistics on the developers Mailinglist. The most interesting graph shows that the occurances of ugly enormously increased around 1999 and is now the most used swear word in FreeBSD.
Serverroom reloaded
Yesterday I collected all kind of serial adapters, gender changers, Null modem cable’s etc and installed FreeBSD on my blue fridge. fridge’s dmesg. While I had some adaptors left, I finally installed NetBSD on the DEC 3000. becky’s dmesg. Here is a picture of the new serverroom.
It is getting pretty hot, two more machines and I will need to ask for a climate control on the FreeBSD wantlist :-). Additional the E450 sounds like a tornado. I can hear it on the first floor. Luckily my neighbors are either deaf or not in their flat at the moment.
On the group picture you can see (from left to right and bottom to top): fridge, becky, ische, olga, via, huckfinn and polly. (Missing on the picture are Riccardo, Jean, Sauna and Mchammer)
Looking for Billy Silver
You probably know Billy the famous IKEA Storage system. In my flat i have five bookcases in silver plus two BENNO CD-Towers. Unfortunately IKEA decided to stop producing the silver ones and now you can only get them in dark grey metallic, which is ugly and too dark for my flat. When I went to IKEA SCS two months ago the height extension units were already sold out. Since then I have checked IKEA in Salzburg and Hamburg, but found no height extension units. If you know an IKEA that still sells silver height extension units, please contact me immediately.
Are you looking for a flat in Vienna?
In November there will be a flat for rent in our house. 2nd floor, in WLAN distance to my flat. No Elevator but windows into the garden.
Booting my blue fridge
Today I booted my sparc64 for the first time. The preinstalled Solaris 2.6 reminded me why i hate Solaris e.g. vipw is an X11 program which does not open a vi as the name suggests, but a notepad-like Texteditor, the default browser was the HotJava Browser I have not seen for several years, shutdown now does not shutdown the machine immediately but waits another minute. And of course a lot of programs are missing. For a moment i thought about installing pkgsrc on it, but decided to try a FreeBSD installation first. Booting from CD-ROM worked fine, and it looks like all my Hardware was recognized. Unfortunately I need a serial console as sysinstall on the OpenFirmware Console isn’t really usable. Especially the disklabel editor needs cursor keys, and the ones on the Sun Keyboard are not recognized.
So tomorrow i will have to hunt for DB25-Adapters.