OK, not really. That was only a slight exaggeration
Seriously, the specific spam problem that I complained about in my “technology is random” posting is what I’ve now solved.
As I mentioned in that post, I had a combination of procmail rules and SpamBayes filtering, etc. I completely turned off the old SB filtering, because [...]
I’m typing this to provoke the following error:
uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open
So far, not provoked, which means that I think I figured out what was killing me ever since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.
Before I declare victory, let me try to insert a link, which is what I was having the most [...]
I’ve been involved professionally with technology since 1980. So, you’d think that I understand it (and how it works) reasonably well by now. On some levels, sure, but on others, I feel as helpless as the proverbial mother-in-law or grandparent in the “clueless users” examples people always give…
Conceptually, I understand how “small tweaks” can lead [...]
OK, so here I am again, updating my progress on the old Dell Latitude L400 saga…
Before I begin, let me assure the millions of readers of this blog that I have no illusion that I will ever be able to use this laptop in anything other than as a “guest surfing” node in my apartment. [...]
