Archive for May, 2006

Wise Words of Don Miller

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

I liked the post Don Miller had yesterday about George Bush. Here’s a more permanant link.

Bush is not a bad man misleading and manipulating the church in America for a vote. He is actually, in part, a product of the church.

The rest of the world can’t figure out why we re-elected Bush for a [...]

Printing from Mac OS X to Linux

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

I still have my Ubuntu Linux machine with a printer hooked up and I thought that it would be a good idea to setup the new MacBook Pro to print on that printer via Cups and that, in theory, it should be possible. In fact, that’s really what Cups is for! However, [...]

Sending for-sure spam to /dev/null

Monday, May 8th, 2006

I use SpamAssassin to find incoming spam on my oldest email address, and then use procmail to send it to the proper place. I seem to be getting more and more spam lately, and if I don’t clean out my spam box, the file gets too big and procmail can’t write it it anymore. [...]

Who Owns Your Computer?

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Bruce Schneier one again writes a compelling article called:

Who Owns Your Computer?:

It used to be that only malicious hackers were trying to own your computers. Whether through worms, viruses, Trojans or other means, they would try to install some kind of remote-control program onto your system. Then they’d use your computers to sniff passwords, make [...]

Learn your Editor!

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

I was helping someone out today and we needed to edit a file. I was surprised to see him fire up Vim, because most people around here use TextPad. I don’t care for TextPad but I used vi/vim for a long time and I immediately increase my respect for someone when I see [...]