JD's Brain

Using the Compaq PA-1 with Linux

Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:34:58 -0200

I purchased one of these little guys in 2001 and used it very little at the time. It took forever to transfer songs, only worked under Winblows, and the capacity was very limited (they come with two 32MB MMC cards).

Multi-DVD backups using zero disk space

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:38:45 -0200

As a few million other people, I have started doing my backups on DVD+RW. With a capacity of 4.7GB (that's 4.7 billion bytes, not 4.7 * 2^20 bytes), fast write speeds (compared to CD-RW) and the ability to reuse the media thousands of times, it's hard to ask for more.

online-replica-store.com sucks!

Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:25:45 -0200

It has been a few weeks since I reported about simply-rx.com. Lots of people posted comments saying they were ripped off. I decided to check if several of the redirected domains (those that point any subdomain to the sucky site) were still up, and they are--except that they now all point to online-replica-store.com.

Upgraded to MT 3.15

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:54:18 -0200

Movable Type 3.15 adds a few goodies like the "nofollow" tag proposed by Google (to fight spam--yay!) and a fix for a hole that allowed people to send mail using your forms (yes, spammers). I've just upgraded so dunno if anything broke, but it looks fine so far.

simply-rx.com sucks!

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:44:30 -0200

simply-rx.com is the first entry in my new category, "This Sucks!". Everyone knows that I just _hate_ spam (uh, I said the "H" word, sue me!), and some spammers are just a lot more annoying than others. So to the proud owner of simply-rx.com, let me just say: YOU SUCK!

My own DNSBL

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:13:02 -0200

My trash folder used to hold about 2,000 spam (and non-spam) messages. Any mail older than 7 days is automatically deleted. Most of what was there never got to my email client, because I use bogofilter to do bayesian spam filtering.

Fighting SPAM with DNSBL

Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:37:01 -0200

I've been getting an average of 20,000 spam emails a day on one of my servers. Apparently some nice spammer included a domain I own as a target for his zombies. That means I kind of get DDOS'ed with spam :P

If you're a Dilbert fan...

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:51:20 -0200

...then surely you must be a geek, just like me. I can't say that I'm insanely into comic strips or anything like that, but a visit to comics.com made me want to have _all_ Dilbert strips really bad.

"1st World" Oysters

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:53:31 -0200

Today is the first business day for willapa-oysters.com, my Dad's pet project and future online seafood behemoth.

Multi-head screenshot

Sun, 07 Nov 2004 08:45:35 -0200

I was talking to my good friend gzp on AIM, bragging about my new (but made from old parts) box, and the fact that it had RAID1, RAID5, three heads, etc. So he asked me for a screenshot. I tried to use xwd to make it--to no avail--so he told me about scrot.

I'm feeling taller

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:27:07 -0200

Yesterday Giovanna ate her first meal on the high chair!

Using the 'Net to help cats and dogs

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 06:09:43 -0200

My wife and I just love pets. We currently have 3 dogs (Thor, Mel & Meg) and 4 cats (Sebastian, Chiquinha, Matilda & Samantha), and they're all mutts (no pedigree). While we couldn't possibly handle any more pets, we would sure like to help others to get a home, and so the idea of creating a website for that purpose was born.

New home for jdresolve

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 -0200

I've changed jdrowell.com about a hundred times in the past few years. And every time I do so, I need to find a place to put my Free Software projects.