Index of /~vorlon/d-i/xfs - Debian Sarge Netinst CD with XFS support
sysadmin - 7.1.2004 - 25.3.2004
The Lord of the Grids
Cool. Now I just need more Macs at home
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Spamassassin Custom Rule Emporium - Directory of Spamassassin custom rules
SPD plans anti-spam law
As much as I would welcome the law in theory, the reality of the bill will need to be analyzed more closely - I fear that it won't really accomplish that much. Sure, German spammers will be dealt with, but the fact is that a large portion of spam comes from abroad. There's also the question of what happens with fake emails, where someone pretends an email comes from someone else - will courts be able to understand this technical complexity, or will fabricated emails soon be enough to haul someone before the judge?
Still, I really do welcome the fact that legislation here is finally addressing the nuisance of spam, especially since there are already EU-wide directives waiting for national implementation.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Deutsche Zope User Group - Solution for the Compile Problem with DCOracle2 and Python 2.3
Little Snitch - Connection monitor for Mac OS X
Once more on SORBS
In P2019 I had already expressed my frustration about sorbs.net. Here now is the first bounce that came back from an email I sent: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:XXX@YYYYYY.de: host AAAAA.BBBBB.de [111.222.333.444]: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [62.153.201.130] blocked using web.dnsbl.sorbs.net; Exploitable Server See: http://www.dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=62.153.201.130
Well folks, I can assure you of one thing: I won't go out of my way to get my emails through to someone who rejects my mail based on such an incompetent blocklist. Anyone who thinks they need to work with such a botched blocklist will just have to do without emails from me.
And no, my mail server is not exploitable. And it's not been hacked either, as those clowns at sorbs.net claim.
Eudora Spyware
Eudora apparently sends the IP address of the computer in the URL for Google searches from within the mail program in the latest Windows version. This raises the question of what URL might be included if, for example, Eudora is operated behind a firewall - and suddenly internal information is sent out.
Apart from that: what's the point? The public IP address of the accessing computer is recognizable to the web server anyway. Somehow it all seems a bit strange.
Well, I was never really convinced by Eudora. The user interface is simply poor. And somehow the program always gave the impression of being half-finished. As if someone had started but lost the thread halfway through.
At Disobey Nonsense Network you can find the original article.
Microsoft classifies Outlook vulnerability as critical
8 months to recognize that a hole is critical after receiving a description of the hole and its effects? Respect!
At heise online news you can find the original article.
RUS-CERT warns against Mozilla
No, open source is not necessarily connected with security. And Mozilla is a big pile of source. And in some respects more of a heap of garbage than a heap of gold ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
Worms switches from Sendmail to Microsoft Exchange
Driving out the devil with Beelzebub. And why? Because an MTA doesn't support file sharing and calendar management? Oh man, with such qualified IT management, you can only wish the city of Worms good luck ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
I don't see a Markdown blog post body to translate in your message. You've provided a link reference to a Linux-Magazin article about CUPS, but there's no actual Markdown content that needs translation.
Please provide the blog post Markdown body that you'd like me to translate from German to English, and I'll translate it while preserving the Markdown structure and leaving code blocks untranslated.
Open Source Initiative OSI - Doc10: Halloween Documents
Already embarrassing the whole thing, especially since SCO now also had to admit that it's real. Of course we're all interpreting that completely wrong ...
GROKLAW - Deadline for SCO
SCO has been given a deadline of 45 days to name exactly which code sections IBM illegally passed from AIX or Dynix to Linux. IBM must provide the corresponding sources within the same timeframe, but SCO cannot insist on receiving the sources first and then taking action themselves. The advantage is that SCO can no longer worm their way out and issue absurd claims to buy more time. The disadvantage is that for another 45 days SCO will continue to confuse the market before their accusations turn out to be hot air ...
SORBS - just another stupid implementation of RBL
Realtime Blocking Lists are actually a good idea for fighting spam. You register open relays or spammers and you can use them to block them well on mail servers. The downside: apparently such services are only run by sociopaths or alternatively complete technical idiots.
SORBS belongs to the latter category. Just enter the IP 62.153.201.130 (a server I administer). What problem does it throw out? High-port-FTP-server. So FTP servers on ports that deviate from the standard.
Great. What's unusual about that? Pretty much every Zope server has something like that (and the high-port FTP on 8021 is exactly that - a Zope). And the other two are simply private FTP servers for two users that happen to run on different ports because the main FTP server is on the same IP anyway...
Volcanic Eruption on Montserrat
Hmm. I hope the top-level domain .ms doesn't go the same way as .tv, namely under
At NETZEITUNG.DE Science I found the original article.
Browser or binary junk heap ...
Frankly, I'm quite on the side of the browsers that don't support this mess: the fuss over internationalized domain names (why are domains containing national special characters called "international" anyway?) is a complete scam, especially the way it was implemented. It's such nonsense, you couldn't get worse. For example, the limitation to only a restricted number of characters - no ampersand! Or this stupid idea that the browser resolves it and therefore this garbage only works on the web, but not in email (or any other programs that do name resolution). Or the brute-force method how the whole thing was rammed through in some registries. And so on, and so forth. None of this pile of junk is really worth going through all this trouble for ... At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.
What you can find in log files...
From /var/log/exim4/rejectlog:
2004-03-02 12:11:04 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected "POST / HTTP/1.1" H=tsunami.onyex.de [213.133.111.162]
elspy: Exim local_scan() with Python - Integrate Python in Exim for mail scanning alternative method
New Netsky Worm Spreads Rapidly
Fast is putting it mildly
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Scan incoming mail with Python - Integrate Python in Exim for mail scanning
Microsoft's Solo Effort in the Anti-Spam Campaign
Not great. Microsoft is doing what they always do: just charging ahead, putting a half-baked and undiscussed implementation online and ignoring existing standards development mechanisms.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Stamp for Emails
Nunja. Such a stupid idea - payment systems on a completely authentication-free protocol where not even the originator can be conclusively identified - can only come from Microsoft direction...
Of course Microsoft would be delighted to supply the necessary infrastructure, the necessary clients and of course the necessary proprietary SMTP extensions to grab another market for itself. Of course all purely out of humanitarian concern.
Ok, the alternative solution of finally throwing these unspeakable garbage mail processing programs out and replacing them with functioning tools - that would certainly be too simple and too logical.
At WDR.de there's the original article.
Steve Roy, Software Design : Action Helper - Tool for managing Folder Actions
macosxhints - More info about remote wake and sleep - More tips on Wake on LAN
macosxhints - Wake a sleeping Mac from the network - Tips for waking a sleeping Mac over the LAN
Wake550 Help - Small service utility for waking up other computers from the Mac
"Domain Kidnapping" is Back
Really cool, the rip-off artists at Verisign want to exploit their special status as root registry again - they've learned nothing from the last debacle. So it looks like wildcard blockers for TLDs will have to be built into the nameservers after all.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
DevChannel | The Affero GPL: Closing the Distribution Loophole - License specifically for web services - Network operation is equated with distribution
Eidetic Document Management System - Open Source document management system with web interface
RSS Feeds for Apple Knowledgebase
Apple provides a whole bunch of RSS feeds for knowledge base articles, grouped by topic. Maybe interesting for some of you.
SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: A Visit from the FBI
An interesting article about an FBI visit and discussion about various data espionage and manipulation techniques. Also the FBI's tip to rather get yourself a Mac, because it is secure out of the box Here's the original article.
Stories from the Service ...
That's simply brilliant.
I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.
833786 - Steps that can help protect against fake ('spoof') websites and malicious hyperlinks ...
Original quote from the knowledge base article: The most effective way to protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is simply not to click on them. Instead, you should manually enter the URL of the destination into the address bar. This way you can ensure that Internet Explorer uses the correct URL to get to the website you want. Enter the URL in the address bar and press [ENTER]. - Microsoft really nailed it. Sure, we all just stop clicking on hyperlinks, completely absurd idea. The best way to protect yourself from evil hyperlinks is to use a different browser than IE.
Bill Gates Predicts Successful Fight Against Spam
That's making me more scared than courageous now ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Test des iX-Spamfilters per E-Mail - Procmail filter for spam detection - procmail requires too much memory for goggle
Sun will Hardware for Windows get certified [Update]
Is there actually anyone left - including SUN's entire management - who still understands what SUN's strategy is? By strategy, I don't mean the headless running around in circles that they're currently putting on display
At heise online news there's the original article.
NSI removes Strato customer domains from DNS
What Strato did is - as you would expect from Strato - rarely stupid. Terminating a contract before the domains have been moved is recklessly careless. Especially since you know what kind of outfit NSI is. Nevertheless, of course the behavior of NSI - as you would expect from NSI - is outrageous and in my view unacceptable. The company should be shut down - their business practices happily operate in the triangle of spam, extortion, and fraud.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
debtakeover - Conversion to Debian
For people with root servers running Red Hat or Suse, this might be quite useful: the linked script converts a machine running Suse or Red Hat to Debian while the system is running, and even transfers some configuration settings. However, it's still beta, so the application could also leave behind a useless pile of rubble - you probably shouldn't apply it to a fully configured system that's already in operation. It's better to use it with a still-virgin configuration.
MySQL 5 knows Stored Procedures
Wow! Just a few more years and this hyped-up B-Tree management can call itself a database
At heise online news there's the original article.
Aftermath of the Verisign Certificate Expiration
That a manufacturer of IT security products recommends not checking whether a certificate is still valid would probably set off alarm bells for some customers. - if I considered Symantec to be a manufacturer of security products, then that would set off my alarm bells, that's correct.
At heise online news there's the original article.
News: New Year's Eve Again for Unix Users
Very funny at the timing: There is a place in the PowerDNS daemon that stumbles over exactly this. At one point the C expression 1< <31-1 is calculated instead of (1< <31) -1. Result: since Saturday noon all PowerDNS installations have been running at maximum load, because the wait time between database queries is no longer being maintained and the database server is being bombarded with a massive number of database queries.
The problematic expression is in pdns/communicator.hh in the earliest method, which finds the domain that most urgently needs to be forwarded to the slaves, or most urgently requires an update from the master, depending on whether the server functions as master or slave or both. Details can be found in the archive of the pdns-dev mailing list. Here is the original article.
Traffic costs for larger hosting projects
Because I just saw Dirk's costs, here's a tip for anyone wanting to set up blog services: take a close look at the different pricing plans from various providers! There are some that are significantly cheaper. I don't advertise often, but I want to give a shout-out to Hetzner, they provide me with an entry-level server for 40 euros per month with 100 GB traffic included. And the next larger plan comes in at 70 euros with 150 GB. With something like that, you can already do a lot more cool stuff without running out of money right away. Disclaimer: I don't have much more to do with them than having simon (the server that this all runs on) hosted with them.
Elmo - The Electronic Mail Operator - Mail program as a possible competitor to Mutt
Keyspan launches USB Device Server
Not quite uncool: being able to put any (ok, certainly not just any) USB devices on a server part hanging in the network and then use them throughout the entire network. Could definitely be interesting for shared scanner use or similar purposes.
At The Macintosh News Network there's the original article.
Mambo at the Yard - Mamblog Homepage - Blogs for Mambo Open Source
OpenVPN - An Open Source VPN Solution by James Yonan - VPN solution for heterogeneous networks, also Mac OS X
What is Mac OS X? - Interesting report on Mac OS X from a hacker perspective