Hey all. One of the sysadmins at Mudd, Claire Connelly, pointed out that there’s a widespread bug in SpamAssassin that might cause large numbers of false positives on mail sent after 2010-01-01. Apparently, the “date in future” rule is hardcoded to look for years after 2010. You can read more at LWN; the short of [...]
Archive of posts filed under the misc tech category.
New Machine
I picked up a new computer last week. A virtual one, that is. I ran into this site called prgmr which offers very low-cost, bare virtual private servers. So far, so good. Got Debian set up all the way I like it. Now just to find something fun to do with it.
Recipe to Crash a Kindle
Here’s a fun thing that I’ve just discovered: Purchase an Amazon Kindle 2 (this trick may work on other versions) Download the MobiPocket version of The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce Copy the .mobi file into your Kindle documents folder Open the copy of the book that appears on your device Enjoy the frequent crashes [...]
New GPG Key
As you may have seen around the Internet, there was a fairly significant break in the SHA-1 hash function, which is used by default in GnuPG. This is worrisome, since GPG/PGP signatures are one of the only things I’d actually trust to verify somebody’s identity online. So I’ve generated a new key with a 2048-bit [...]
awesome window manager
First, some background for the non-technical among you. A window manager is a piece of software that controls the windows on your computer. It will do things like placement, drawing, keybinding, et cetera. If you’re on Windows or Mac OS X, you have a window manager built-in to your operating system and cannot easily change [...]
