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A pox on blog spammers

The masses are stirring, provoked by the likes of Adam Kalsey, Jeremy Wright and Jay Allen’s MT Blacklist plugin.

Junk mail in my mailbox is already a PITA. Spam in my email is even more of a PITA. At least I have filters that trash most of it before I get to see it. But to have to deal with it in my blog is about the last straw.

So, if you blog with MovableType, make sure you have the latest version of MT-Blacklist installed. Declare your blog a spam-free zone and fight back against spammers.

I still want to shoot them with large cannons.

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Blogshares

Hmm, the guy over at Geek Rants bought up all the remaining shares in my blog.

I wonder if this has any significance, other than boosting my blog share price. I wonder what I should do now…issue more shares? Have I been taken over? Oh what to do, what to do…

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Playing with Fedora

Spent some time this morning poking around inside the Fedora box I built on Friday. Overall, I’d say it’s pretty similar to RedHat 9. Some of the software is newer (GCC 3.3.2, Perl 5.8.1 were the first ones I found). Apache and MySQL were a version behind, but since those just came out a couple of weeks ago, not unexpected.

Haven’t really pushed it too hard yet, although since it’s on an old 400 MHz PII, I can only push it so hard. It runs pretty well on the old box I stuffed it into. Web pages were served up pretty quickly. OpenOffice apps took a while to load, but ran fine. Seems stable enough. Now to read through some of the Fedora mailing list archives to see what interesting things people are discussing.

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Matrix: Revolutions

Saw Matrix:Revolutions this afternoon. Reviews were lukewarm, and didn’t seem to be all that well received from what I’ve read of peoples’ comments on various boards, but I thought it was an excellent movie. I thought it was more in line with the first movie than Reloaded was. Plenty of action, some fabulous fight scenes, and very thought provoking. The ending reminded me of Star Trek: TMP. If you’ve got some time to kill, I think Philosophy and The Matrix has some interesting articles to read.

Can’t wait to see it at the IMAX now.

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A new box to play with

Have a new Fedora box to play with. The only machine I could scrounge up to install it on was an old Dell Optiplex GX1, 400 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB and 4 GB hard drive. Not the fastest machine in the world, and probably a little underpowered, but it was the best one I could lay my hands on. Should be enough for me to see how it behaves.

Managed to shoehorn a fairly complete installation, although it only leaves me with about 600 MB of disk space to play in. I’ll have to see about scavenging another hard drive to put into this box.

Installation was pretty simple, and similar to installing Redhat Linux 9. Boot off the CD, select the packages you want and let it go. Installation on this box took about 2 hours to install about 3 GB of stuff. Like I said, not the fastest machine around.

Too late to play with for today, so the fun will have to wait until Monday.