Older blog entries for cord (starting at number 17)

Browsercrash sucks - loosing work even more.

Do you know this?

you write a brilliant entry for a blog, a blog-comment or something in a textarea-field in your browser.

after finished, you press the Send-Button, and ... the browser crashes, or nothing happens because Javacript or Cookies were disabled in your browser.

the result is, the brilliant text you just wrote by investing time has gone to bit-heaven.

Has anyone a solution for this, beside writing in a text-editor, pasting it over to the textarea, fighting against linebreaks and things?

I once tried Editus Externus a Firefox extension, but that one produces a lot of problems in the fight iso-8859-x vs. utf8, and the linewrap problem is also there.

So how can i make sure that the things i type in a textarea aren't lost, when my cookie expires, Javascript sucks or my Browser dies?

Syndicated 2007-05-12 10:32:40 from Sprachrohr - offizielles Verlautbarungsorgan

private Spamstats April 2007



you see my Spamstats for the time i run an own server for my domain.

The input consists mainly from cord@Wunder-Nett.org that is in existence since mid-1996, and a (tuned) catch all on cord.de.

  • Unreadable is the stuff encoded as russian, chinese, korean, ...
  • Backscatter are Bounces due to misused Mailadresses.
  • Virusspam is the stuff ClamAV catches.
  • Spam is recognized by bogofilter
  • Dupes were Mails with the same Message-Id in a short time period.
  • Ham are thode messages that survived the other filters.


In 05/2004 i had a big downtime due to broken Harddisk and/or cheap IDE-Cables (which was finally solved in 2006).

In 11/2004 i became Debian-Listmaster, and forwarded the listmaster-mails to my system.

In 08/2005 i stopped forwarding listmaster-Mail and the admin-mail from LUG-OWL and let them drop into a local Mailbox on the specific servers.

In 06/2006 The power supply of my server died, and HaJo had a fitting spare device, so i took it to the local hardware gods (C&M sorry, only Flash) and they put it in, they also replaced all Fans (6 of which 4 were stuck) and replaced the IDE-Cables. Now i even could switch on DMA without risking a crsah. (Man, 3years of crippled server). As you see, the system is now able to accept even more spam.

In 12/2006 i added greylisting on my server. My 2nd MX currently doesn't do greylisting.


Management-summary: With massive filtering i can keep mail somewhat useable for me.

Syndicated 2007-05-04 21:15:52 from Sprachrohr - offizielles Verlautbarungsorgan von Cord

Debian Weekly News is late? - Blame listmasters!

Hi.

We were notified that German DWN, and the Original DWN weren't sent out. Investigation showed that Diplomats (in German translation Diplomaten) matched the bad word 'Diploma', so it is dropped in our spambox.

I resent German DWN yesterday and the Original DWN some minutes ago.

sorry for the inconvinience.

Syndicated 2007-05-01 21:32:28 from Sprachrohr - offizielles Verlautbarungsorgan von Cord

Listmaster vs. Gmail

We get regular requests from Gmail-Users that don't receive their own mails back, when they post something on a mailinglist to which they are subscribed.

So if this happens to you, first check if your mail shows up in our mailarchive.

If it appears there (wait some time that the archive can catch up) your mail has been successfully posted to the list, and your copy has also been send and is most likely accepted by Gmail. But Gmail seems to drop that mail internally (or sort it in a spamdropbox?) maybe because From and Receipient-address are the same. (We get two or three requests of that kind per week, and everytime we investigated, we found this is the case)

If it doesn't appear in the Mailarchive and your mail has been accepted by our mailserver murphy.debian.org, you most likely have lost against our Spamfiltering. (Did you know that ControlExtension matches the string Rolex?).

Then feel free to report to listmaster@lists.debian.org and provide as much info about your lost mail as possible, helpful would be:

  • your IP
  • the time you send (including Timezone / difference to GMT)
  • the Message-Id
  • your from-address and the to-address


Keep flamemailing.

Syndicated 2007-04-30 21:24:47 from Sprachrohr

30 Apr 2007 (updated 30 Apr 2007 at 20:53 UTC) »

Blog established.

I sometimes find myself in a state that needs to write out what i feel or mean to a topic. So i decided to establish an own blog. And here it is.

I read for some time the Blogs of my friends and cow-orkers corona and wusel and both decided to use this nice Blogsoftware called Simple PHP Blog. It is very featureful, but the deciding thing is, that it doesn't need a Database running in the Background.

As this package isn't available from Debian yet, i made a package of it, and applied as Maintainer (see Debian-BTS #421513).

I will wait some days and will then upload the package. For now you can find it at http://debian.cord.de. The package is currently useable for stable, testing and unstable.

Syndicated 2007-04-29 19:54:18 from Sprachrohr

work

the 4th day at the new company Mediaways... all in all it is the same as my previous employer ABACOM, the main difference by now is that it had 20 times more employees and a better internet connection ;-)

ok... i tried to write before, but my Netscape shit itself and i don't wanted to start over again... ok, now i try lynx and here we go:

home

i'm happy that i found a new home yesterday. Now the stress starts... moving... buying furniture, install infrastructure ...

Debian

after a long time thinking about it, i've now applied to become a Debian Maintainer... stay tuned.

3 Nov 2000 (updated 3 Nov 2000 at 13:01 UTC) »

hmmm... long time not here. ok. what's on:

Calamaris

Calamaris is now stable on V2.40. I've asked on the announcement-Mailinglist if i should move development to Sourceforge, but no response :-/

Sun-Monitor

The Master of Monitors found a bug, fixed it and it worked... for a few hours... then something else broke... not heared about it... going to bug him next week again.

work

still trying to find a new domicile, but it's not easy to find something that's big enough for my girl-friend and me. (she's piano teacher). still trying.

Calamaris

so i decided to call the last beta-version 'stable', and promptly someone finds a bug... ok, easy to fix... and yet another release... i think (again) that the next step for Calamaris is adding graphics...

CoCaLoRes

after releasing a first beta a few weeks ago, i now decided to announce it at Freshmeat. Now let's see how big the 'Freshmeat-Effect' is... Those Sourceforge tools are nice.

Sparc-Monitor

Now a had to bring a Sparc-computer to the repair-shop, to check if the replacement tube out of an IBM-Monitor (it's all Sony) is working... it does... for 2 minutes, then it went dark... hope that they find the bug and they are able to fix it.

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