by ezs | Nov 17, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Linux, Technology, Uncategorized
I use IPcop and Copfilter as my firewall/spam/email filtering gateway. Free and easy. Scales well.
I’ve had problems with Copfilter running the Bayesian learning for spam assassin; in short copfilter runs a wrapper script to call into sa-learn.pl.
I found that the IMAP->message_to_file was just sitting waiting for input from the NetMail server I run. Simple fix; add a timeout to IMAP reads and increase the IMAP buffer size. This should let me get all of the body text for learning, and timeout on massive inline images.
I logged a bug and posted a fix to the DMZS-sa-learn.pl script
my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new(
Server => ‘foo.com:143’,
User => ‘spamtrainer’,
Password => ‘longpassword’,
Debug => ‘1’,
#ezs edits
Timeout => ‘5’,
Buffer => ‘65536’,
);
Spam training is working perfectly now – Copfilter is eating its way through 3600 spam and about 6000 ham (non spam) messages.
by ezs | Nov 2, 2006 | Technology, Uncategorized
I’m sure many inches of commentary will be written – but at first look this is a bold and disruptive move. Customers should be reassured and have confidence in a mixed source infrastructure.
by ezs | Nov 1, 2006 | Customer Service, Technology, Uncategorized
I read The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman a while ago. In it he describes how technology and supply chain improvements are changing the world.
Here’s my example.
Yesterday I ordered a red iPod Nano, with personalised engraving from Apple. It’s a present for Grania.
Today it has been shipped. From Shenzhen in China:
FedEx and Apple delivering my iPod within days. Now that would not have happened ten years ago.
by ezs | Oct 26, 2006 | 'Web 2.0', evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
Nice make your own magnetic ribbon at SupportOurRibbons.com
by ezs | Oct 17, 2006 | blogging, Uncategorized, wordpress
Another milestone approaches; WP 2.0.5.
Release Candidate 1 is here – it’s working so far for me.
by ezs | Oct 17, 2006 | Technology, Uncategorized
I’ve been using the Collanos Workplace for a few weeks now – and it’s frustrating and promising at the same time.
The beta is currently at version 1.0.0.6 – so things are moving forward; however there are still fundamental problems with the basic functionality.
I’m seeing that sync of data and workspaces is really hit and miss. I’ve been working with the team at Collanos – and it seems like ‘large object’ sync – i.e. documents – has timeout issues.
There are some additional issues with sharing workspaces; the invitation mechanism is clunky – requiring people to be online; the sync of the workspace suffers from the large object sync above (namespace first, then data perhaps?); the permissions model is a little too simplistic.
On the positive side – the product looks good for a beta. Cross platform support is as touted; Windows, Mac, Linux. The peer-to-peer model (when it works) is great; no data lives on a central server and the sync time is generally “almost instant”. The integration of documents, chat, tasks and notes is a real breakthough.
I’ll post another update in a few weeks; hopefully the sync and invitation issues will be ironed out.
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