Spam is a constant problem. I run spamassassin on my personal mail server and on the mail servers at work. It does a pretty good job of filtering out most of the junk, but on occassion a few spam messages get through. Now when I say it does a pretty good job at filtering I am serious. At work we receive from 5,000 to 10,000 messages a day (depending on the day of the week) and about 80% of these messages are JUNK. Spamassassin does a fine job with hardly any false positives and only a handful of actually spam getting through.
In order to help spamassassin determine that these messages that are getting through are spam you have to train the Bayesian filter and doing this is very simple using sa-learn.
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Training Spamassassin
I wanted to run KNOPPIX, which is a Linux distro that runs from CD.
Normally I run Windows XP on my laptop but I wanted to be able to boot into Linux, without partitioning up my harddrive, for an extra layer of security when connecting to a public wireless network. At home I have an older Linksys wireless router and I am running WAP encryption. The wireless card in my laptop is a Dell 1370 WLAN card, under XP no problem, I set up my passphrase and SSID and it connects and off I go.
With KNOPPIX I had to do a little work.
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Knoppix Wireless Setup on Dell Inspiron 6000
Yesterday, July 9, 2006, was my 12 year anniversary with the company that I work for, MAP Communications, Inc.
Wow, 12 years! I got a nice card from the company on Friday and $100 cash bonus to have a good weekend.
MAP is a nationwide answering service provider. We answer calls, mostly for businesses, doctors, lawyers, contractors, and the like then we dispatch messages by email, cell phone, pager, fax, even by calling the client. I started working in the call center answering phones. At the time I was going to school for electronic engineering and I moved to the pager repair area.
I worked in pager repair for a few years and then got promoted to the MIS/IT department of our subsidiary, SmartBeep. After a good run and the pager industry pretty much on the way out to cell phones and PDAs SmartBeep closed and I went back to MAP and for a while was the manager of the MIS department.
Now I am the Network Administrator. I oversee the day to day operations of our network, network hardware, Internet services, etc. I like the job, somedays more than others. Like any other company there are good things and bad things about MAP, but the good outway the bad and like anybody somedays I think I am worth more than I make. Not sure whether I will be here another 12 though, but I will be around for awhile.
I have a goal to someday work for myself. That is still aways off, but someday it will happen. Until then I am here doing my job the best that I can, learning everything I can, and taking pride in what I do.
MAP has been good to me the last 12 years. Wow 12 whole years - amazing.
I am planning to post at least one review, write up, or whatever of some my favorite software and/or utilities each week. This weeks pick is HTML Kit.
Most of the website design and editing I do, I do by hand using a text editor such as vim or notepad even but occassionally, especially if I am trying to lay out tables, CSS, or image maps (I hardly ever mess with image maps but sometimes) HTML Kit is an excellent tool to help with these tasks.
HTML Kit Screenshot.
HTML Kit allows you to preview the output of your code as you edit. It is also very useful in planning site layout. There are a ton of plugins available for HTML Kit to automate just about any coding tasks.
The built in validation tools are also nice. (Probably should use them more often).
From the authors site:
HTML-Kit is a full-featured editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Despite its name and the light download size, HTML-Kit is a multi-purpose tool that has support for several scripting and programming languages.
Again if you are looking for a great FREE web development tool download HTML Kit and give it a try: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
This was a popular post before I scraped the blog and installed the new one so I figured I should post it again.
If you are running a BDL open belt drive primary on your scoot and you have problems with the starter pinion gear engaging the ring gear then this jackshaft fix is what you need.
The Bullet Proof Jackshaft Kit.
Picked up the kit from Scooters Performance for just over $100 delivered and it only took about 15 minutes to install. I wrote up a detailed article on the jackshaft installation here.
Got a few hundred miles on it now and the starter has not missed once.
Bullet Proof Jackshaft Installed.
Installation instructions for installing the Bullet Proof Jackshaft Kit: http://www.custommotorcyclebuilding.com/articles/bdl-starter-fix.php
Take Care - Ride FREE
To get things started here are a few pics of my 1992 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail. I bought this bike new bike in 1992. The reason the title of this post says kind of is because nearly everything on the thing has been replace, customized, or some how or another fucked with. The only things that have really remained untouched are the frame and the forks.
My ol’ lady Sandy and I have logged a little over 180,000 miles on her and we really enjoy the ride. We have covered most of the east coast, from Maine to the Florida Keys, and as far west as St. Louis and New Orleans.
Recently I replaced the old worn out stock motor with a new 96″ S&S crate motor, the tranny was upgraded to a Revtech 6 speed, the primary was changed to a BDL 3″ open belt (BADASS!), added the 21″ Chubby Apehangers (again BADASS!), wrapped the exhaust, and the list goes on.
Nearly all of the work I have done myself and you can find out a bit more about the bike and other modification I have made over here.
Sandy and I just recently took a ride down to The Horse’s Smoke Out in Salisbury, NC and the next real trip we have planned is our annual trek down to Daytona for Biketoberfest in October.
Ride FREE
Welcome to my blog. It has been here for awhile running on LifeType. I recently started messing with WordPress and I like it much better so I decided to scrape the old blog and start a new one. Some of the stuff from the old will come back here, some of it won’t. Looked at how I might be able to import all the old into the new but then decided there really was not much point in that, so anyway here we are back at the beginning.
Enjoy…
