I'm working on mimicking the barracuda's functionality, and have the spam quarantine working.
I apologize that sourceforge is showing no releases, the files ARE in cvs, and are stable after much testing. I'll try to get in and do a release later today.
My hope is to build a full spam firewall suite that is easy to set up and still have much scalability and control.
- Cross Platform - It supports server hosted friends list - Starts up quickly - Supports AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, Jabber, RSS, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, and LiveJournal - It's free as in speech (GNU)
AND
It can be put into a screen on a server, you can detach, then simply ssh into the server from a different location and reconnect to your screen as though you never left. I do this all the time.;) I have connections to all the major services, a slashdot RSS, and any other RSS feeds I find interesting on our shell server at our data center, and it never skips a beat.
FYI, if this interests you, contact me for a shell account.;)
The ports tree in FreeBSD is also quite nice. If you want to build something from sources, update the ports tree from cvs (I have a stable-supfile I keep in/usr/src for this purpose), the cd/usr/ports
Everything is split into categories. cd into the directory you want, then do a make, then make install.
If make fails because of a dependancy as described above, quite often you can simply cd to that program and make install.
The trick is, of course if a version is already installed. Then you do make deinstall, then make reinstall. It's that simple.
That, or on your windows workstation load cygwin and bind.
The part that sucks is that last time I tried installing cygwin, it was incredibly difficult, this coming from someone that manages many FreeBSD text-only servers, and uses many different flavors of linux. Perhaps cygwin has improved?
Looks to me like it requires a conformity to the new serial number spec (which, if I might say BLOWS...I run an ISP and I appreciate being able to look at a DB file and know when the last time I changed it was by simply looking at the serial...ugh), otherwise it will just sort of 'happen'. So long as your dns server is authoritative for a domain and your root-hints file is correct.
The catch of course is that you have to be running bind locally to make it work. Which is fine if you're a unix-head and know how to work dns, but for the average joe, it's far from simple. I have a perl script that checks my Linksys firewall's IP every half hour, and if it's changed, updates the dns file, then runs nsupdate.
You mean rsync runs correctly in both user and daemon mode????
On 10.2?
Yay! I've been trying to get BackupPC to backup our XServe with no luck at all to this point. Finally! I had tried compiling from sources and from Fink and both failed miserably. Something about an OS-specific bug. w00t!
Okay, I was just taking a look at the video page for the new iMac, and off to the right where it says 'Mirror, Mirror'...anyone have access to one of these things? (I know, wishful thinking) because I've been hacking the old model, overclocking it and such, but part of the hack was making it span dual displays, of course right now I'm doing that with a crt studio display, but I'm not opposed to getting a nicer vga lcd for my second display, especially given that I'd be saving $1000 over the PowerMac G5.
Has anyone considered the possibility that the reason they're blocking these notifiers isn't because they have a problem with the idea, but rather there isn't a standard upon which they've settled on?
What I mean is, Slashdot bans people when they abusively pull RSS feeds too often, and ask people to only pull RSS once every 30 minutes, and no more often than that. It's possible that these programs are pinging the crap out of the server, essentially DDOS'ing the sytem with mindless queries every few seconds to every few minutes. If the notifiers only queried once every half hour, there would be no issue, but hen people would find it useless since there would be up to a half hour delay on being notified of new mail.
Then we could build a huge effigee of Bill Gates and Steve Balmer bowing before the penguin. Then have the penguin announce in a booming voice that tyanny in the land of Microsoft has to end and that his cleansing fire clean MS of dishonesty, at which time the penguin effigee would belch a fire ball that consumes the Bill Gates and Steve Balmer effigee.
"...and the Lord God said `thou shalt build no idols before me'..."
"...and the number of the beast shall be 666"
"...and I just saved a load of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico!"
Granted, things will have probably changed by the time I have a child old enough to be dealing with anything like this (there seems to be a long history of 'geeks' in my family, my father was an electrician, my grandfather was a chemist, etc), but if I were a parent now, here's what I would probably do:
Find the offending username/ip. Move them off of whatever IM client they're using now.
Put them on something a bit more intelligent, my weapon of choice would be centericq, but anything that will allow you to do some scripting will work.
Set up an auto-reply to that user. Auto-block that user. Heck, grab the IP address, nmap, and script-kiddie a shutdown of that IP. Doesn't matter, but you ARE empowered as a parent to stop this sort of thing.
Granted, not all parents are as geeky as we are. There should be a basic 'block username' and 'block from IP address' function in an IM client, no?
Slashdot Mirror
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sa-milt-quar
I'm working on mimicking the barracuda's functionality, and have the spam quarantine working.
I apologize that sourceforge is showing no releases, the files ARE in cvs, and are stable after much testing. I'll try to get in and do a release later today.
My hope is to build a full spam firewall suite that is easy to set up and still have much scalability and control.
AOL gets it all right....in japan!
In soviet russia it*** gets AOL.
*** It being any magazine, computer, coaster, box set, etc that can possible have the software bundled with it.
Refreshing change.
I mean, really.
In soviet russia, AOL gets you!
*ducks*
The RSS feed never updates. I've let it run for 2 hours now, and it's still not grabbed the latest rss.
This is incredibly confusing, and there's nothing in the Prefs to set how often it pulls the rss feed. ???
Heh. A paying customer that I'm keeping an eye on doesn't bother me too much. ;)
/. AC's, who can you trust? ...
Besides, if you can't trust
oh. I see your point.
Still works here...? In FreeBSD make WITH_MSN=yes does the trick.
CenterICQ
;) I have connections to all the major services, a slashdot RSS, and any other RSS feeds I find interesting on our shell server at our data center, and it never skips a beat.
;)
- Cross Platform
- It supports server hosted friends list
- Starts up quickly
- Supports AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, Jabber, RSS, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, and LiveJournal
- It's free as in speech (GNU)
AND
It can be put into a screen on a server, you can detach, then simply ssh into the server from a different location and reconnect to your screen as though you never left. I do this all the time.
FYI, if this interests you, contact me for a shell account.
The ports tree in FreeBSD is also quite nice. If you want to build something from sources, update the ports tree from cvs (I have a stable-supfile I keep in /usr/src for this purpose), the cd /usr/ports
Everything is split into categories. cd into the directory you want, then do a make, then make install.
If make fails because of a dependancy as described above, quite often you can simply cd to that program and make install.
The trick is, of course if a version is already installed. Then you do make deinstall, then make reinstall. It's that simple.
That, or on your windows workstation load cygwin and bind.
The part that sucks is that last time I tried installing cygwin, it was incredibly difficult, this coming from someone that manages many FreeBSD text-only servers, and uses many different flavors of linux. Perhaps cygwin has improved?
Looks to me like it requires a conformity to the new serial number spec (which, if I might say BLOWS...I run an ISP and I appreciate being able to look at a DB file and know when the last time I changed it was by simply looking at the serial...ugh), otherwise it will just sort of 'happen'. So long as your dns server is authoritative for a domain and your root-hints file is correct.
Anyone have further input?
It's already there.
The catch of course is that you have to be running bind locally to make it work. Which is fine if you're a unix-head and know how to work dns, but for the average joe, it's far from simple. I have a perl script that checks my Linksys firewall's IP every half hour, and if it's changed, updates the dns file, then runs nsupdate.
You mean rsync runs correctly in both user and daemon mode????
On 10.2?
Yay! I've been trying to get BackupPC to backup our XServe with no luck at all to this point. Finally! I had tried compiling from sources and from Fink and both failed miserably. Something about an OS-specific bug. w00t!
AAAAAAAH!!!!
use RIAA::Microsoft::plump::fat;
When the hell did THAT module show up on CPAN????
Okay, I was just taking a look at the video page for the new iMac, and off to the right where it says 'Mirror, Mirror'...anyone have access to one of these things? (I know, wishful thinking) because I've been hacking the old model, overclocking it and such, but part of the hack was making it span dual displays, of course right now I'm doing that with a crt studio display, but I'm not opposed to getting a nicer vga lcd for my second display, especially given that I'd be saving $1000 over the PowerMac G5.
Curse those evil octopi!
Has anyone considered the possibility that the reason they're blocking these notifiers isn't because they have a problem with the idea, but rather there isn't a standard upon which they've settled on?
What I mean is, Slashdot bans people when they abusively pull RSS feeds too often, and ask people to only pull RSS once every 30 minutes, and no more often than that. It's possible that these programs are pinging the crap out of the server, essentially DDOS'ing the sytem with mindless queries every few seconds to every few minutes. If the notifiers only queried once every half hour, there would be no issue, but hen people would find it useless since there would be up to a half hour delay on being notified of new mail.
I think therein lies the crux of the matter.
Then we could build a huge effigee of Bill Gates and Steve Balmer bowing before the penguin. Then have the penguin announce in a booming voice that tyanny in the land of Microsoft has to end and that his cleansing fire clean MS of dishonesty, at which time the penguin effigee would belch a fire ball that consumes the Bill Gates and Steve Balmer effigee.
"...and the Lord God said `thou shalt build no idols before me'..."
"...and the number of the beast shall be 666"
"...and I just saved a load of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico!"
You know, NTFS has been a thorn in my side for some time now, and I have *NOT* been looking forward to WinFS at all.
The fact of the matter is that NTFS 5 is the one file system that it appears no one can reliably write to without creating problems, except windows.
Most file utils want you to boot to DOS, Knoppix boots you to Linux, and if you're lucky, you can read, but not write.
It drives me up a freaking wall. I've forced Knoppix to mount an NTFS volume r/w, and made a change to boot.ini once, and I got off lucky.
Perhaps with NTFS 5 still in use in Longhorn, it will buy enough time for someone to finally crack the problems with r/w mounting of NTFS 5?
Nevermind, I was wrong. They're not blocking it. Oh well, still a mirror. :P
Mirror!
Since they've now blocked all referers that are NOT linspire.com. Heh.
Meet me behind the gym after class or your ass is grass.
No Karma Bonus either. Gloves are off biatch!
Granted, things will have probably changed by the time I have a child old enough to be dealing with anything like this (there seems to be a long history of 'geeks' in my family, my father was an electrician, my grandfather was a chemist, etc), but if I were a parent now, here's what I would probably do:
Find the offending username/ip.
Move them off of whatever IM client they're using now.
Put them on something a bit more intelligent, my weapon of choice would be centericq, but anything that will allow you to do some scripting will work.
Set up an auto-reply to that user. Auto-block that user. Heck, grab the IP address, nmap, and script-kiddie a shutdown of that IP. Doesn't matter, but you ARE empowered as a parent to stop this sort of thing.
Granted, not all parents are as geeky as we are. There should be a basic 'block username' and 'block from IP address' function in an IM client, no?