Koozie Notes

Bad Docs

Need pointers on writing poor documentation? Read at your own risk.

-Chris

Applescript Primer

Bert Altenburg's has a new primer, "Applescript for Absolute Starters," that teaches Applescript to the new user. If you ever wanted to learn Applescript, now is your chance. Download the PDF [1.1 MB] today.

-Chris

qmail How-to

Joe Stumps has a well written 3-part article titled, "Building an Advanced Mail Server" which uses qmail as the mta.

This article discusses how to build an advanced mail server which sports all of the latest mail protocols, checks all incoming mail for spam, and scans all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses.

The wonderful folks over at Inter7 developed vpopmail to handle the management of virtual domains using Qmail. Unfortunately vpopmail is limited to a measly 23 million virtual hosts, of which each are limited to only 23 million users. So if you have more than 529 trillion users you may need to look elsewhere.

-Chris

Other Good URLs on qmail:

Dave Sill's "Life with qmail" site ***FREE

Dave Sill's "qmail Handbook" at amazon.com

Richard Blum's "Running qmail" at amazon.com

Netflix in Austin

I can hardly believe it. Netflix has open a distribution center in Austin. Instead of mailing DVDs between Austin and Houston with a 3-day travel time, I will get nearly same day service with the center in Austin.

Thanks Netflix!

-Chris

Found Book

When I checked my email this morning, I was surprised to hear from Book Crossing, a site the promotes the sharing of books. Apparently I finally had someone find one of my books and make a post about it. I'm glad my book is being read instead of collecting dust on my crowded bookshelf.

Cool.

-Chris

Anti-Spam Testing

Network World tested 16 anti-spam tools against all their email for the month of June. Looks like Postini came out on top.

-Chris

Spam Q&A
Spam and Statistics

Ethical Hacking

Nice article from Information Week.  Ryan Breed, the ethical hacker/cracker, is hired to break into computers to demonstrate security vulnerabilities.

This article has some great quotes.

"Why don't we just close that up and pretend it didn't happen," joked the IT manager.

"That's my home address!" says the director.

"What is that and why can he access it?" asks the company director.  The IT manager explains that it's a remote-system-administration tool.

-Chris

Switch Video

Thanks to Spencer for pointing out this humorous switch video, "Crash Different." Even though it took some time to download the 49 MB mpeg file, it was worth it.

-Chris

ssh Exploit

New ssh exploit discovered. If you run debian, the fix is already posted. Just issue the following commands below as root.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

-Chris

Laws and IT

Network World posted a short article titled, "Under the Gun: Compliance with new security and privacy regulations falls squarely on IT departments." They also posted a synopsis on 6 laws and their effects on IT.

-Chris