Every day for the last 10 days or so I’ve been getting empty comments posted to this blog. They always come from 24.2.95.195 and they never contains any content - not even adverts for poker, performance enhancing drugs or offers of financial services! They get moderated and I delete them. The fact they always come [...]

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Next door are having an extension built. It’s been the cause of much noise, dust and general annoyance as they tend to leave their vans scattered all over the place. The pavement has become unpassable for large portions of the day. The road is even unpassable on occassions. The fact that they start banging and [...]

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Since changing over to the latest WordPress I’ve started seeing a steady stream of spam being sent as comments! While spammers trying to spread their filth via comments on your posts isn’t unusual, the fact that the flood started as soon as I changed to the latest version does make me wonder if the two [...]

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Finally got round to upgrading my wordpress installation to the latest. It didn’t take long but now I need to try and fix all the stuff I broke along the way
Over the last few days I’ve managed to do some more work on the mail servers and have tehm logging all sorts of [...]

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I really should figure out how to turn the image round, but even without the rotation it’s obvious what it is!
Had a really good night in Cafe Wha? last night. Music was really good and incredibly varied. Everyone seemed to be having a good time and the atmosphere was great.

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After the game - the traffic jam! Floodlights as a backdrop

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And so it begins…

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Ipswich Town v West Ham

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While looking to upgrade amavisd & Spamassassin I found that my perl installation was older than it should have been, so I ended up upgrading perl! This went OK but now I’m trying to add in all those extra modules that my scripts use Everything seems to be working again though no doubt I’ve [...]

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Having upgraded postfix I’m now looking at upgrading amavisd and spamassassin. One of the things that I never quite managed to get working right in the current setup was getting SA to use extra rulesets. I read all the stuff that seemed to apply but never came across anything that described the setup I have, [...]

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browsing my emails when I got home today one subject line caught my attention…
“Patriot system units from Valuelist”
Sadly they turned out to be just computer system by a company called Patriot

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I was in Cardiff last night visiting Den (presently working there) for the night. We went to the castle and did a tour of the Millenium Stadium both of which were good and excellent value for money. To eat we decided to go to the Cardiff Bay area and eventually found ourselves at Mermaid Quay. [...]

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Had a good day in Cardiff with Den. Weather was good for a change. On the train home now

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Cardiff Castle

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My current phone is 3G compatible. The software that Vodafone supply is old and lacks the ability to state that the phone should ignore 3G networks. Ideally this shouldn’t matter as 3G is faster than older GSM, but in practice there is a bug somewhere in the 3G systems which means that at regular intervals [...]

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I finally got round to upgrading postfix from 2.1.5 to 2.2.3 The biggest change was the introduction of integrated suport for TLS (yay!) although as usual the release has a lot of other things added.
The build was very straightforward and the upgrade almost effortless.
The biggest change was getting SPF support. I had a patch for [...]

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Another round of someone piece of software somewhere sending mail pretending to be from a domain my mail server hosts… I strongly believe the problems of email won’t be solved by “tweaking” SMTP but by replacing SMTP with a modern, secure replacement. I’ve heard of A, href=”http://amtp.bw.org/”>AMTP but that seems as though it’s dead. Anyone [...]

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The UK has more speed cameras than any other country I’ve visited. When they were introduced they were targetted at places where speed had been identified as a contributing factor in crashes. That was a long time ago when accident blackspots were investigated in detail and careful, thoughtful action taken. Sadly taking such a considerate [...]

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One of the things that I look forward to after a bout of work is a nice long lie in my bed. Knowing that you don’t have any reason to get up and can just sleep until you’re body is ready to wakeup is a real luxury. This morning should have been one of those [...]

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Phew, finally home for a few days off. Got a reasonable backlog of things to take care of and the garden needs some work! Doubt I’ll have any trouble filling my days off somehow.

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