My Poor Neglected Blog

I probably should update this more than every couple of years...

Anyway, I just received an email from BlueHost, my hosting provider, that someone in Pennsylvania using a Comcast cable account "forgot" the password to the domain.

More than anything else, I'm amused, but it was enough for me to change my password.

So, Mr. Limited Bandwidth Script Kiddie in PA, move along. Oh, and here's a stock photo just for you! Enjoy!

It Really Ain't Me!

While checking my email this morning, I found a number of bounces from different organizations. Apparently, spammers are forging the “from” address and using random “csquared.org” addresses.

I hate spammers as much as the next person—please be aware that it’s really not me sending these damnable things.

Procmail Changes for IMAP

Bluehost recently switched over from POP3 to IMAP.

After scratching my head over why I couldn't access my email from Horde, I gave tech support a call.

It was rather amusing to give my email's password over the phone -- "capital sierra, papa, alpha, mike, capital mike, echo, capital romeo, sierra, dollar sign, sierra, uniform, charlie, capital Kilo, tilde, alpha, capital sierra, sierra". While "SpamMeRs$sucK~aSs" is not my real email password, you get the idea. Anywho, I think I convinced the tech support guy that I wasn't a "Where's the any key" type user.

Whilst on hold, I figured out what the deal was -- my custom procmail setup was dumping stuff into an mbox format, rather than an IMAP folder. Since everything was now IMAP, Horde was having issues.

So, after about 17 minutes with the tech support guy (thank [insert supreme being of your choice here] for toll-free tech support), they converted my old mboxes to a sexier IMAP format.

After a couple of test emails, I had my procmail sorted as well. Basically, you need to change the target from an mbox to an IMAP folder. QED.

This is just another reason I will recommend Bluehost to anyone who asks. While I've had some minor hiccups in the past, they have been seriously on the ball with their tech support.

Manager.java

I hate work-related dreams if only for the fact that I can't bill for them.

After getting home at an obscene hour Saturday morning, I had an reoccurring dream about a single file. It was up on my screen, and I couldn't scroll up or down or anything. It was just "there." I'd wake up, think to myself, "That was weird," and go back to sleep only to pick up the same file.

The tragic and sad thing is that, save for one of the interns making mention of it, I haven't even worked on it.

Rats:Humans in Washington DC

One of Gullible Info's random facts today was:

The ratio of rats to humans in Washington D.C. is 3 to 1, higher than any other U.S. city.

I wonder if that fluctuates dependent upon Congress being in session.

Fnar, fnar, fnar.

Fantastico is Evil

Well, I figured out what the problem was -- My blind faith in Fantastico.

Instead of doing "the right thing," I said, "Sure, Fantastico, go ahead and update my Drupal installation."

Fantastico, with all the finesse of an immune system on overdrive, blew away my subdomains -- "This ain't part of no Drupal installation" -- and "poof!" they were no more.

That'll learn me, durn me.

Gahhh!

I really should know better by now, but noooo, I have to upgrade my Drupal installation just before I go to work...

So, all of my subdomains are hosed up, including my resume.

Well, I suppose this gives me a compelling excuse to revamp my sites.

Pardon My Dust...

It's pretty obvious that I'm redoing my site, so pardon my dust.

Console

Console is a container for one or more Win32 command shells, kind of like Konsole on KDE.

It rocks.

Formail Tutorial

jgross has a nice procmail tutorial... Wish I would have come across this when I was first playing around with it...

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