ACA Consumer Information: SPAM
I’m very tempted to add a procmail rule that forwards all spam to the reporting address… Although i pity the poor people on the other end of that.
Although.. getting rid of spam and prosecuting (executing even – i really don’t mind) spammers is a REALLY GOOD use of my tax dollars!
PEAR :: Bug #2417 :: [PATCH] Incorrect processing of ‘permission denied’ style error messages
Got the bugger – and supplied a patch that fixes it!
This should spell an end to those annoying (and really unhelpful) “DB Error: unknown error” messages from PEAR::DB when the user doesn’t have enough permissions.
Been hitting this a bit with MemberDB.
I’d love PEAR::DB to return back the native error string as well… but it’s kinda hidden.
Maybe I should be changing the getMessage() methods to return the PEAR message *and* the extra debug stuff? hrrmmm…
oh well, for later
No, I don’t work for Sun
*sigh*… now blog spam is hitting wordpress blogs. At least there’s a “Moderate all posts” option – unlike the crud that is MovableType. Well… MovableType before it went *really* non-free.
Shouldn’t it just naturally progress to GNOME 2.A?
well… i don’t know if i’ve blogged this – but the other day i decided to see what would happen if all my startup items were done in parallel. Being the lazy guy that I am, i decided to just edit the rc script and add a & to the startup function.
Believe it or not, this actually worked!
Yes… things started up in parallel. Granted, because of the way debian prints things out it looked ugly… but everything worked. Now, to find some time to play with it some more and get GDM up first so we can log in while everything else loads.
It’s part of my “i really don’t need postgresql, squid, rsync, smartmontools, ssh, apache and cups loaded before i start the login process.”
Things should be dynamic and cope with services, networks etc starting/stopping/restarting.
Besides… you can always have a “login requirements” list or something if you really do think that mysqld should be running before you log in.
last night – Augie March. They sooooo rock. Of course, since it’s an augie march gig – everything broke. Took about 10 mins for them to get glenn’s guitar plugged in properly – and naturally somebody with the knobs couldn’t get anything done without a lot of nasty feedback. But it all worked out in the end.
Brundism is awesome live.
Lots of new stuff last night – quite like it. esp a few of the songs.
they played “moth ball” and altough glenn made no promises he’d actually remember it – did really well and it sounded devine. with the soft sweetness at the start coming into a wonderful loud and rocky bit at the end.
good night it was.
The magic is “Channel 8”
syncing now! yay :)
Ubuntu Linux – Welcome to Ubuntu Linux
Yes… the super secret debian project is out of the bag!
Installing on my crash-n-burn machine now…
so far:
– text install will be replaced with GUI in next release (good thing)
– ext3 is default filesystem (eww).
– install taking an okay amount of time
– nice splash screen.
built, installed – and guess what? It *works*!
well… for some value of works.
missing a bunch of extra libs i need for some apps (e.g. emacs) and any translucent windows make it go *slllooooowwww*. but drop shadows work okay.
maybe in a release or so it’ll be reasonable to use full time. although what’s really needed is accelleration for my graphics hardware (Radeon 9600).
had to raise colin one up after his sleep working under Fedora :)
http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2004/09/12/911-fedora-ppc-tree-sleep-works-with-pmud
trying to get CVS to build… didn’t work :(
i mean, maybe i really should just get a working branch… but hey, that takes away the fun!
“There is no emoticon to express what i’m feeling”
That’s when I’m planning to be up tomorrow morning.
Got to catch a 6:25 flight to a job interview. Back in the middle of the day – and then to work, and then out to LUV.
Going to give a LA update. Should be good.
well, we’ve gotten everything into arch, and Pia and I have both committed to the central archive on digital fine. We’re getting places! this is *good*!
I think we’re nearly ready to go live. Just have to set up the news feeds for our “latest news” stuff. so, some mysql foo on digital, and it should all “just work”.
At some point soon, I plan to have a branch of memberdb in the archive so that the LA specific changes can be made there. Namely the site-look and site-messages folders.
These really should be seperate categories and use configs. I plan to do that soon… but possibly keep the website itself away from that (don’t want to scare Pia too much :)
Although arch does these things a *lot* better than other revision control systems. Although the user experience of the one we use at sgi is great – it’s all transparent to the user (unless you want to know).
chatting to aj over last weekend, he proposed an interesting method of doing elections. Preferential, but where candidates set preferences, not people voting. This keeps UI simple, and possibly could help solve any situation where votes are tied (this could be really bad for online stuff).
(i think i got that right).
food for thought.