Looking at some logs, I noticed a bunch of entries for dns queries failing to things like: lame server resolving ‘14.182.8.69.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org. After some digging around on Google, I found a mailing list post from rfc-ignorant.org announcing the removal of the ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org zone.
Looking at the SpamAssassin docs, this the right line to put in your local.cf to disable this particular test:
score RCVD_IN_RFCI 0
Yay, fewer log messages to look at every day.
If you’ve ever had the need to print a mirror image of a document (ie, text to put on a teleprompter), you know there’s no easy option in Microsoft Word to do it for you. And you’ve searched the web to find that the only choice is some rare versions of the HP DeskJet drivers that have “Mirrored Output” options. Don’t be fooled, there is another way!
If you’ve got an HP LaserJet, go download the PostScript driver for it. Install them. Then, we you go to print, in Printer Properties, Click the Advanced button. Expand the PostScript Options section and set Mirrorer Output to Yes. I’ve done this with both a 4100 and an 8150, so it’s probably fairly common among the newer LaserJets.
You are probably asking yourself how, or even why, I figured this out. Well, one of the people around here does video production and bought a low tech teleprompter set up last year. Of course, I write down how to do this, so I spent 45 minutes this afternoon figuring it out.
More survey greats:
3 more days.
This article on /. links to a WaPo article on MSNBC about cell phones on campus. The stats they mention are not from the WaPo article, and they aren’t the same as what we are seeing in our survey so far.
The cell phone vs. room phone dilemma is an interesting one, 911 service and general coverage being the biggest problems.
We are running our annual technology survey, and the same issues that always come up are happening, just like clockwork:
And, of course, there are just the classic responses:
Every year for Christmas gifts from Alisha’s grandparents we get a puzzle or two. For some reason, they never seem to be easy ones. This year was no different. I didn’t get a good picture of the first one, but this is probably the best one. Not too tough, but not easy. The second one was much worse. I’m not sure how much time Alisha spent on it, but quite a bit more than I did.
This weekend I helped Jim pick up a nearly brand new 42U Dell server rack for the school district. We don’t really have a place to put it right now, but it was such a good deal we couldn’t pass it up.
More pictures of puzzles and the rack.
And, when I got back to the house today, the garage door wouldn’t open. I assumed it was frozen down, but it wasn’t. I came inside and the light on the wall switch was blinking continously. It would open using the wall switch, but not the remote or the HomeLink transmitter in my truck. I don’t think we have a manual for it anywhere, so I went searching the web. I found a discussion area talking about Craftsman door openers with someone else describing the exact same symptoms. The reply was to press and hold the lock button for 3 seconds, the constant blink means the opener is in lock mode. I never even knew what the lock button was for. I guess you learn something every day.
Trying to turn on Google Safe Search for all of your clients behind your Squid+squidGuard server? Well, you aren’t the first and probably won’t be the last, but it’s not that hard, once you find the right words to plug in to Google.
You need a little patch that Eric Harrison (of MESD fame) wrote. If you are already using his recent RPMs, you already have the patch. If you are compiling from source, you’ll need to grab the source RPM from his testing area and extract the squidguard-sed.patch file. Once you’ve applied that patch to the squidGuard 1.2.0 source and recompiled, you should be able to use the following code snippets in squidGuard.conf to append “safe=strict” to all google urls:
rewrite google {
s@(google.com/search.*q=.*)@1&safe=strict@i
s@(google.com/images.*q=.*)@1&safe=strict@i
s@(google.com/groups.*q=.*)@1&safe=strict@i
s@(google.com/news.*q=.*)@1&safe=strict@i
# log google
}
and in your acl section add:
default {
# for google to be in "safe mode"
rewrite google
Then, there are fewer inappropriate pictures available via google.
Thanks to Eric’s post to K12OSN and a Louisiana library page with a full squidGuard.conf linked for examples.
Sometimes I wish we had a documented software development lifecycle that included written policies on establishing a project, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining it. But then I read things like this and realize that even if all those things are in place, the same crap gets flung in your general direction, just from a slightly different source.
Yes, it’s 6:15am CST. And yes, I’m awake, time to go deal with the power outage.
Yum, deep fried sandwich. According to my wife, I exhibit similar buying habits. I’m not sure if my Dad is to blame or not though.
And I guess I should note that, in general, this holiday seasons’ buying experience isn’t any better than last years. Also apropos to that post, this year I get the joyous gift of a 2 day power outage for the building that has our primary server room. Yay!
