Author Archives: ianmacd
New notification mechanism
The old notification mechanism has been replaced with a new one in the shape of a Mailman mailing-list. The old Movable Type notification facility did not require confirmation when subscribing to notifications, which could result in falsely subscribed users with … Continue reading
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The war on spam
I spent a chunk of the weekend working on impoving caliban.org‘s anti-spam measures. I’d been running with the same configuration for quite a while, which was basically a basic Postfix configuration on the front-end and SpamAssassin on the back-end. This … Continue reading
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Next moves
I was thinking about the future today. To make any reasonable judgement about the future, one must demonstrate some wisdom with regard to the past. When I was in my twenties and dissatisfied with my first few jobs, I can … Continue reading
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12th May 2004
Too much has happened over the last six months to bother going into much detail here. In short, the Killing Joke concert I mentioned was so good that I deliberately missed my flight to Austin for it and consequently also … Continue reading
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