February 15, 2010 – 12:23 pm
Over ten years ago I put aside my copy of the HP Journal, December 1996 edition for later reading. I would like to relate some thoughts I have recently had on an article in it.
As pin counts of integrated circuits have continued to rise, the difficulties in arranging wire bonds — which connect the “pads” [...]
February 14, 2010 – 11:18 am
I recently enabled Akismet on a client’s Wordpress site that had been running, and accumulating spam, for quite awhile.
Apparently there were so many spam messages (over 17,000!) that Akismet would hang with some kind of unreported out-of-memory condition. There was nothing in the log files to indicate what might be causing the error.
The result was [...]
February 12, 2010 – 10:41 am
If you are using an application that needs PostgreSQL connections on your LAN, don’t forget to add, or replace, in file postgresql.conf –
listen_addresses =’*’
Otherwise, postgres will bind only to ‘localhost’ and won’t be accessible from your network. You will just get Connection Refused errors until you add this parameter to enable listening to TCP [...]
January 30, 2010 – 9:49 am
By default, Mailman — which is installed by default in Virtualmin as your mailing list manager, exhibits some nasty behavior, being open to sending “backscatter” spam. This means that the Bad Guys send fraudulent messages “from” the email address they actually want to send spam to; Mailman rejects those messages, basically sending a bounce message [...]
January 29, 2010 – 4:01 pm
For setup of the Zonet ZPS2102:
The default IP is 192.168.0.10 … in the Add Printer dialogs, choose Network Printer, then enter the IP address, the queue (default is: LP1) and choose the model.
The Device URI, when you are done, looks like:
lpd://192.168.0.10/LP1
January 25, 2010 – 9:08 am
Here are our currently recommended software packages:
ComboFix
Super Anti Spyware
Malwarebytes
Avast
January 21, 2010 – 6:40 am
See the instructions at http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
November 17, 2009 – 6:27 am
A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
— Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
November 5, 2009 – 8:44 am
Follow the Path of Emacs, grasshopper, and you shall go far. Venture not down the false road of ‘vi’ and shun the evil ‘notepad.exe’
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Usually blogs attempt to develop a community of readers, all of whom get to discuss each post on the blog site.
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