Strange weekend
We had some people over for dinner and each had their own strange brush
with law enforcement.
At the last minute we invited one of Carolyn’s friends to join us. He was
going to be an hour late or so, but planned to join us as soon as he got
his car back.
He arrived first.
One couple was coming over but we got a call from them shortly before we
expected them: they were robbed while they were out earlier in the day and
needed to figure out what was missing. In the end our friend Liisa came
over as soon as she could but her husband didn’t feel comfortable leaving
the house. Turns out it was some young kids in the neighborhood that have
been breaking into various houses in their neighborhood. They might end up
being very unhappy over their choice of targets thanks to her husband’s
connections to the OPD through his time in Iraq.
Another friend rang the door just about when he was supposed to, but
moments before his bag was stolen out of his car. He saw the house the
kids ran into and wanted to run over to get it. Knowing the gun ownership
rate in Oakland, I called the police first and they arrived in minutes and
went over with him. It turned into a huge production with various
residents covering for each other, lying, getting cuffed, police dogs…
in the end they couldn’t do anything but the OPD were really helpful and
sympathetic and professional. I was very impressed.
The last friend, the one who ended up first, he had to leave early because
he had to bail his friend out of jail in the morning.
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EAT VULVA AT THE DEN RCC
A theme?
(The Red Carpet Club in Denver)
fixing GeoIP for awstats
https://web.archive.org/web/20101102191506/http://forum.maxmind.com:80/viewtopic.php?t=27 helped, but the real key was hardcoding the database location in geoip.pm line 63: if (! $datafile) { $datafile=”GeoIP.dat”; } to if (! $datafile) { $datafile=”/path/to/GeoIP.dat”; } .
Eliminating Spam with Procmail and SpamAssassin
For years I’ve fought spam with all sorts of techniques, some limited server side tricks in setting my postfix rules to very strict adherence and using RBLs, but ultimately settling on whitelist filtering on my Trusty Eudora client, POPping all that spam over whatever airport international dialup I happened to be on and cursing it even as it disappeared into the UBC folder for bulk deletion.
And I dreamed of the day when I would switch to IMAP and set up all those cool anti-spam server-side techniques I’d been reading about, primarily SpamAssassin. The problem with spam filtering is that it often catches your friends.
So I found this great procmail filter that whitelisted on the server side and sent confirmation requests to unlisted addresses. So I installed Procmail on my server, then SpamAssassin, and rewrote the filter below to do just what I wanted:
Night in YYZ
The view from our hotel is very nice. They put us on the 20th floor with a balcony overlooking downtown Toronto.
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Mizu YYZ
We had a lovely dinner at Mizu on King St. in Toronto. Very good, very fresh Sushi and a very nice owner who kindly shared with us his two favorite sushi restaurants in Toronto:
- Kazi Sushi in Queen’s Way
- Hiro Sushi on King St. East
Courier IMAP 4.2.0 breaks SSL-Authd on 993
Updating to Courier IMAP 4.2.0_1 broke authentication with SSL on 993 for roundcube (and perhaps others) but not for Thunderbird. The following worked for me:
Change:
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL3
to:
TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL23
in /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl
(from this fine site)
Old Weang Ping
Dinner at Old Weang Ping, maybe the best Thai restaurant in the bay area. 510-430-8771
