Published on
July 9, 2006 in
Techie.
I was trying to send an email to my church address from my gmail address with a link about Adobe’s Software Donation Program, but the Barracuda kept rejecting it as spam.
It started as a note in the subject and a link in the message and was rejected. The next time I added more to the message and that was rejected. For fun I added the text of a full news story (Puush for simpler speling perzists) and oddly enough that was rejected.
Finally I made a different subject and then formatted the message as a letter.
Bob,
I hope this one gets through the spam filter. The last few times I
have been unsuccessful.
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/software.html
Bob
It made it through.
By the way, Adobe has a software donation program for 501( c ) 3 organizations and schools. Since we have both we are interested.
I received this piece of spam today:
Hey bro, nice talking to you the other day.
Thought you would want to check this out, I got some for myself cause they were on sale, you should check out the site, I added the link below.
Steel Package: 10 Patches reg $79.95 Now $49.95! Free shipping too!
Silver Package: 25 Patches reg $129.95, Now $99.95! Free shipping and free exercise manual included!
Gold Package: 40 Patches reg $189.95, Now $149.95! Free shipping and free exercise manual included!
Platinum Package: 65 Patches reg $259.95, Now $199.95! Free shipping and free exercise manual included! (Best Value!)
I know like 10 guys who have already stocked up on these.
Here’s the link to check out bro!
Talk to you soon!
The New York Times has a story about the most successful types of spam (use bugmenot). This places sex spam as the most successful, pharmacy spam in a distant second, followed by Rolex watches. I wonder where “vague health related things” fell on that list.
The must have paid extra for that information since I cannot find it free on the CipherTrust site, however there are some interesting phishing stats and zombie stats at their site. China is incredibly high up on those stats, I wonder if it is from the effects of rampant software piracy.
Girl gamers often get picked on when playing online games (or so I have heard since I don’t play online games), so one company is offering voice changer software.
AV Voice Changer software is only $99.95 (hey, under 100 bucks!) so every teenage girl gamer will be getting it immediately.
However, this does look useful for podcasting. Remember Mr. humphreys on “Are You Being Served?” I have two words for you, “Men’s Wear”
Published on
July 8, 2006 in
News.
I have been playing around with another blog recently. Quite often I want to post something interesting, but not in line with what I consider the direction of this site. So, while sitting around just thinking about stuff a while back I registered R.ighteo.us and started another blog.
I have had many failed sites in the past. Some programming related, some political in focus, a few persaonal type, and an odd assortment of misfits; but I wanted something fun.
I noticed that many of the “fun” sites I visithave a tendency to head into dirty territory and often have anti-christian slants. So I figured I would do something clean, but not preachy. If someone wants a sermon they can go somewhere else (I have a list), but if they want something fun and clean they can go to http://r.ighteo.us/
I would like to take on additional editors and contributors in the near future, but right now I am investing myself to get it started. I don’t like it when people grab a site and make one post then beg everyone else to help. If I want this to succeed and others to join then I need to make sure it is worthy of their time and attention.
I have had a pretty full week. Holidays are a lot of work for me since there is still a certain amount of work that must be done in a week, but fewer days to do it. On top of that, as the Security Director it is my job to babysit the building during non-business hours as long as someone needs to be in it. When everyone else was dismissed early on Monday that meant I had to stop my other tasks and sit at the front desk for a few hours. Tuesday still had a few activities, but not enough for me to make my security host come in for just a few hours so I did the stuff.
Tomorrow we are switching our WAN connection over to multiple T1s in order to better expand our network across the multiple sites it needs to reach.
I have also taken some pictures of the wireless connection equipment we have set up for reaching the office annex and I am checking connectivity from point to point.
I am mapping out our network and rearranging the IPs for some of our equipment for better management.
I am dealing with the headaches incurred after bringing in a new sonicwall box and having to reconfigure it so as to allow security camera viewing across different areas. On top of that the content filter was blocking lots of sites I need (including a few of my own for some reason).
And then my IP changed so after two days of reconfiguring my personal firewalls and the router at home all I needed was to enter a new IP to get my server and remote client working again.
I have 4 stories sitting in my queue for this blog, but some of them are already looking stale.
Published on
July 1, 2006 in
Techie.
Wordpress really ticks me off sometimes. I had to disable my http_referrers for something today and forgot about it. Then I did a big post about disabling USB drives (it was clever, funny, witty, and informative I assure you) and when I hit “Post” I lost everything. It just tells you that you don’t have referrers set. I know it is a security feature, but wordpress is very bad at being good in interactions with users.
I’ll probably repost the details sometime, but not now.
This program will let you do it without messing with the registry yourself, and it will let you do it remotely over the network.
Intelliadmin USB Drive Remote Disabler
USB Trojan Story
Other Info
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