Darkavich's Daily Ramblings Ramblings of a Mad Sys-Admin

November 14, 2008

The internet just got friendlier

Filed under: Items from the Quibbler,Muggle Tech,Things Peeves Would Do — Darkavich @ 10:39 pm

Some of you may have heard that yesterday one of the “Alleged my ass” biggest spammers on the internet have been shutdown. You can read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/6qyw4e

From my point of view, I have statistics from the last 30 days of spam caught by spamassasin. and I have been averaging about 38-40 messages a day. In the last 24 hours I have only received 8-10 messages.

I think they finally did something constructive to help everyone on the Internet!

my spam actually has dropped 2/3’s on average I get 38-40 a day that end up in my

Another article: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/spam_provider_shut_down_leads.html?nav=rss_blog

October 19, 2008

goodbye eye-fi

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 10:05 pm

So I started poking around at the software that comes with the the eye-fi wireless sd-memory card. I noticed that it had a my entire photo upload history available to me. I searched for any options that prevented this from happening, but even though I have the upload to web option disabled, it STILL uploads the thumbnails.

Not only is this unethical, but a violation of privacy. I was unable to find a ULA that warns users that ths would happen. I have reformated and deleted my account and will be offering up my card to the first person that isn’t as paranoid as me. If your interested, then let me know.

September 11, 2008

Pond Haven Railroad now has clamps!

Filed under: Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 4:11 pm

My new rail clamps have arrived!

August 29, 2008

some animals are more equal than others?

Filed under: SPEW — Darkavich @ 10:21 pm

I am not sure why this hasn’t made national news… There are always two sides to every story, but the video sure make it look like these guys stepped over the bounds of their authority. One makes you wonder about the kindler gentler world being promissed by certain people.

Sorry, about the ads.

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5670682

Where has customer service gone…?

Filed under: Items in the Pensieve,Muggle Tech — Darkavich @ 9:55 pm

…It’s alive and well in the home appliances world.

On the heels of my wonderfull experience with KitchenAid I had to return one of my Henckels knives because a crack appeared in the blade. I wrote to them to see what the cost of repair was. They told me to ship them back the knife. I did that and promptly forgot about it for four weeks. Today my brand new knife arrived for free!

I am so glad that companies still stand behind their products. Too bad it’s a German company and not an American company.

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