Reputation-based Antispam – Is it flawed?

I hate spam, it’s the needless bane of my existence. Spam, spammers and Microsoft vulnerabilities are the scourge of the internet. I spend way more time trying to stop spam than I want to. It’s not like it’s exciting work or anything. Anyway, onto the story. A mail server that I administer recently started getting …

My Favourite Grep / Bash Combo’s

Just a quick build up of my most commonly used bash commands lsof | grep ‘searchterm’  – List open files and search for specific handlehistory | grep ‘searchterm’ – Search for a term in my bash history (I now have this setup as an alias ‘ghistory’ps -ef | grep ‘process’ – Much the same as …

Dribbling Traffic: A Nomachine / FreeNX rant

Anyone who knows me, knows I am very keen on Network / Server Based Computing. As a part of my daytime lila I run a small Windows Terminal Server ‘farm’ that supports 300 remote desktop sessions across 40 branches in a 2500km radius. It’s not completely without it’s faults but it’s pretty damn good. The …