Category: technology

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King of Spam Interview

By Michael Palmer |  Aug 14, 2003  | #email, #spam | 1 min read
This guy sends out 2 billion emails a month. It’s all spam and he’s responsible for it. Read his interview. From his home office, where a dozen rack-mounted computer servers hum 24 hours a day, Scelson — in customary T-shirt and shorts — sends millions of e-mails to 50 or so computer servers in the USA, China, South America and Europe. It costs $20,000 a month to pump out e-mail hawking everything from insurance to toys to lingerie.
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Wooden Video Art

By Michael Palmer |  Aug 14, 2003  | #technology | 1 min read
I want this in my apartment. Damn neat. he Wooden Mirror project is an art installation, and as such the goals leading to its creation are a bit vague. The piece explores the line between analog and digital. In the essence of the piece is the notion of inflicting digital order on a material that is as analog as it gets ñ wood. I was hoping to take the computational power of a computer and video camera , and seamlessly integrate them into the physicality warmth and beauty of a wooden mirror.
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New Windows Worm/Virus

By Michael Palmer |  Aug 12, 2003  | #microsoft | 1 min read
Time to patch your XP and 2000 installations. By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Aug 11 2003 3:13PMA malicious worm that exploits last month’s RPC DCOM vulnerability struck the Internet Monday afternoon, targeting unpatched Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines. The worm, dubbed “Blaster” and “LovSan” by security and anti-virus companies, attacks vulnerable machines over TCP port 135, then spawns a shell and initiates a TFTP file transfer to retrieve the worm’s code.
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Logitech MX700/MX500 Linux Setup

By Michael Palmer |  Jul 29, 2003  | #linux | 1 min read
I just set up this Logitech MX700/MX500 howto for linux and xfree 4.2/4.3. I figured I’d blog it so google would catch it and then people could find it. This quick reference should be fine for setup on all linux distro’s as it is not distro dependent. Just for grins I am doing this on Gentoo.Also, this should work perfectly on the mx500 also. I have not tested it ’cause I don’t have one, but from what I hear, they are the same mouse.
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Prokyon3 MP3 Manager

By Michael Palmer |  Jul 24, 2003  | #technology | 1 min read
Hmm.. looks interesting. Wonder if it will be good.. Gonna try it some time today. It even has a windows port for you inferior minds out there. prokyon3 is a multithreaded MP3 manager and tag editor for Linux / Windows. It was written in C using the Qt3 widget set (Qt2 on Windows) and the MySQL database. prokyon3 can access MP3 files on harddisk, CDROM, SMB and NFS. Files can be played using XMMS (WinAmp on Windows), and can even be played when the files are on CD as prokyon3 identifies CDs by content.
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Opt-Out Junk Mail

By Michael Palmer |  Jul 24, 2003  | #email | 1 min read
This site will generate all the necessary forms to send out to all the companies that send you bulk/junk snail mail. (in your mailbox. we’re not talking about email silly)Get Off The Lists! | CDT
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Awesome nospam Email Addresses

By Michael Palmer |  Jul 24, 2003  | #email | 1 min read
Now this just kicks ass! Welcome to Mailinator(tm). No Signup. No waiting. No SPAM. Just email – your email – anytime you want it. No time wasted signing-up, just send an email to any address @mailinator.com. Your email address already exists. Get your email sent here, THEN come check mailinator. Your mail will be waiting. Check it out : Mailinator
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