Admin on The Truth Imperative

Postfix Dspam 380 Ubuntu

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:13:00 -0800

I have been wrestling with my dspam configuration on Ubuntu for quite some time and think I finally got it set up the optimal way. It took building a custom modern dspam package myself, with the help of a kind soul who built a custom package for Debian etch.

I get tens of thousands of spam messages to my personal accounts each month. And there are many more going to other users at my domain. It has been getting worse recently. This primarily caused me to take more drastic action and implement realtime blackhole lists to block spam from even entering my mail system. It is absolutely stunning to see how much spam gets blocked vs. how much gets in now. I haven’t calculated the stats but on a cursory look at my logs, it is well over 70% that is being dropped on the floor now.

In Other Sysadmin News

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:58:00 -0700

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I also finally started using the excellent PromoteThis plugin to create the nice links to digg.

Also, I had to install the MTStripControlChars plugin, but an updated one from an entry at the VOIP and Gadgets Blog to keep Windows 1252 encoded characters (mostly quotes and double-quotes) from creeping into postings. It happens a lot with pasted in text from websites. Ugh.

You know, it’s kind of irritating that the MTAmazon and MTBlogroll plugins aren’t XHTML compliant yet. I may just contribute some fixes to do proper URL entity encoding. I had a ton of HTML cruft from migrating from various template versions and bad Sidebars I didn’t test. Fortunately, the browsers didn’t seem to mind. All of the HTML I could clean up should be cleaned up now, save for some possible issues from Performancing-edited posts. Can’t wait for the revival of Performancing…

New Wider Stylesheet For Juxtaposition

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:41:00 -0700

I just finally fixed my modified Vixburg style for Movable Type so that it makes use of wider browsers. Many times, quotes or pictures or preformatted text get chopped by the small center column. I tried for hours to get a decent 3 column layout where the center column will be fluid and take up as much available space as is there, to no avail. Best I could do was set 65% as the width and that does most of what I hoped for, at least for a 1280x1024. The true holy grail is at this site, but would require me building a whole new style to match kind of what I have using this as the base https://www.glish.com/css/7.asp The right column does not flitter away underneath the content as happens with mine when the page is sized smaller. *sigh*

Movable Type 32 Upgrade Woe New Templates

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:19:00 -0700

I was having the same problem as in this posting to the MT forum after upgrading to the new 3.2 templates by copying them in from the default_templates directory or from the movable type templates website:

The footer on my main index seems to be incorrectly displayed: %%time"> | | (0)

1- %% shouldn’t be displaying 2- It should say Posted by xyz on August 19, 2005 02:00 PM | Permalink | (0) 3- ‘>’ shouldn’t be displaying 4- the permalink should be displaying

Strange blog spam?

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:23:00 -0800

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I have gotten two spam blog posts (aside: so, should blog spam be called spog or splog?) recently that I can’t figure out what the person’s motivation is. They were very similar in style:

They were both posts consisting of one line of text
They both had a first name as the user name
They both included a URL that was not registered or accessible that was related to their name

Back In The Saddle

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:00:00 -0700

Well, this site has gone stagnant for almost a year now for reasons that I’d rather not go into.

But that’s not the important thing–it’s back online, on superfast hardware now, and should get more regular updates.

Hope you enjoy!

Juxtaposition Rockets To Top Of Google Results

Fri, 30 May 2003 10:44:00 -0700

Juxtaposition has rocketed to the top of the Google search results for the word ‘juxtaposition’! Strange, given that Juxtaposition is nary a few months old.

Sadly, a link search (for link:juxtaposition.axley.net) returns no hits though.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=juxtaposition&btnG=Google+Search

Catching Up

Fri, 23 May 2003 10:15:00 -0700

I’ve been so busy with work and other things that I have amassed a large queue of articles and little nuggets over the past few months. You’ll probably see some old news come through that I still wanted to share or comment on.

Cheers,

-core24

weblogs.com RPC error fix

Fri, 23 May 2003 09:34:00 -0700

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You may have seen this error crop up in your movabletype blog:

Ping ‘https://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2' failed: HTTP error: 500 read timeout

I found plenty of sites through google where people were asking about this but nobody offered a solution that I saw. Well, I found a solution that was posted on the MT support forum just an hour or so ago:

movabletype.org : Support Forum

below is a unified diff so that you can patch your site. The patch seems to work most of the time, although I have had at least one of the same errors crop up. That could have been due to something else though.

Juxtaposition Mobile Edition-

Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:36:00 -0800

I just found out some very simple instructions and a sample template to make a parallel WML version of this site for viewing on my mobile phone (I do work for a wireless phone company, after all). Check out the result: Juxtaposition mobile edition

I started by finding this WAP & WML thread at movabletype.org

This discussion pointed me to two solutions for two different problems:

Nicely Toasted Mobile, which generates wml versions on-the-fly for WAP-based mobile devices