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• Using Gmails spam (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Since I maintain my own server for web, mail and some other services, I do not use my Gmail account much. I originally created the account just by curiosity for their UI and now use it to log into other Google services and occasionally if I need a different account than one of my main ones. What I like about Gmail is, that it seems to have a quite good spam filter. In the past half year about 10 spams got through to my inbox, while more than 900 were filtered into the spam folder (in the past 30 days, if you believe Gmail). [Read full post…]

• Tool recommendation: Exaile (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  After I already recommended a software tool in my blog yesterday, I'd like to continue recommending good tools. This time it is Exaile, a greate music player and collection management tool. [Read full post…]

• Claiming my blog (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  This post is just to claim my blog on Technorati. I'm pretty sure you can ignore this as a reader of my blog. ;) Sorry for the noise! [Read full post…]

• Tool of the year: ii (irc it) (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  Via James Pic I just got to know the fantastic tool irc it (short ii). ii is a very simple and slick designed IRC client, that works on the Linux / Unix shell. ii simlpy uses the file system to structure IRC connections, channels and queries and offers FIFOs to communicate with the server. It allows you to write IRC bots in bash (or any other language that allows file access) with a glimpse and my mind already imagines a huge ton of possible applications. My first test showed that it works really cool! Amazingly cool tool and therefore in the sense of BitlBee (yes, I skipped a year ;) my tool of the year (so far). [Read full post…]

• Privacy problems explained (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  In the past years privacy issues have increased more and more in our civilisation. Sometimes under the hood of "fighting against terrorism", but in many cases simply straight forward, authorities and companies start violating our privacy more and more. In Germany the "Payback" (German link) card is a more or less harmless example for tracing customers, where the "Bundestrojaner" (German link) is a really dangerous one. [Read full post…]

• eZ Components and GIT (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  James Pic wrote a little article on how you can import the eZ Components SVN into your local GIT installation. This way you can stick to your favorite version controll system and don't need to use SVN much if you want to try out the latest features in eZ Components and use GIT as your favorite version conroll system. [Read full post…]

• Major update for spamdyke on Gentoo howto (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100

  I recently migrated my server to a new maschine and a new provider. After supporting Kore today with installing spamdyke on his maschine, too, I seized the chance to update my Spam Filtering with Spamdyke in front of Qmail howto on the wiki. The howto describes how to install the most recent version of spamdyke on a Gentoo system, explains the most important configuration options and gives some practical hints for such setups. You can ask Kore, it only takes about 10 minutes to do so ;) and saves you a huge lot of spam. Comments and addtions are very welcome. [Read full post…]

• Reflecting private properties (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I recently stumbled over reflecting private properties in PHP again. As you might know, this was not possible until now and if you tried this: [Read full post…]

• What Firefox tells you about yourself (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Judith posted about a funny experiment: Try to enter each letter of the alphabet into your browsers (I guess - or hope - most of you use Firefox, but most other browsers also support autocompletion) and collect the website it suggests first. This is most probably the website you visit most, starting with the specific letter. So, here is my list: [Read full post…]

• Revolution OS (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Also quite old I'd like to recommend the video Revolution OS, which I stumbled upon yesterday, to you. The video deals with the evolution of the open source scene and how it started. While integrating some technical and geeky facts I think it is quite good for non-technical people, too, and can possible give them a hint on what we geeks do here on the internet and how they are affected by it themselves. [Read full post…]

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