In the process of moving servers I’ve had to get used to the provider imposed Postini message filtering system. Initially I wasn’t really happy about the imposition it seemed to place on the way I like to use email, i.e. lots of “catch all” addresses. After puttering around with the system for a little over [...]
Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Moving Time
After being with eapps hosting on a Fedora Core 1 box for way too long I finally got the itch to move to a Cent OS 5 box. After contacting their billing department and finding out the particulars I had a new VPS system to migrate to. During my off time from work I managed [...]
Launchd and the Keychain
I’ve been writing some software for the Mac to run under launchd. My program is a background utility that needs access to the user’s keychain to do part of its work. The program ran fine during the development process when started from the shell, but as soon as I hooked it up to launchd, it [...]
Thought it was just me…
Since this morning (perhaps late yesterday) I’ve been getting a lot of email spam with the headline of “CNN.com Daily Top 10″. My email processor is Google and they are blocking me from seeing the actual messages because the email contains a virus. I’ve probably received 300-500 over the last 24 hours. Initially I though [...]
Old Computer Games
And I do mean old.. stuff from the 70′s that was on ASCII terminals. I loved the Colossal Cave Adventure and Trek. Probably my first exposure to computer games and probably what hooked me on computers. I played those during high school while working as a computer operator doing tape backups on an Harris computer. [...]