stevekemp

To give a perspective on numbers I host/maintain blogspam.net and we've blocked 1 million spam comments in just over two weeks. That's a hell of a lot of spam.

Although I wrote a competing tool I have to admit I do like fabric. Many of my own web-applications use it for deployment, and for that purpose it works wonderfully: * Login via SSH to upload a tarbal…

If you're keen on using pure Python then you might enjoy using fabric. It's got fewer primitives than ansible, but allows you to write your logic easily. It runs via SSH and requires no par…

It's funny I've been considering a blackberry for myself for the past few weeks - solely because they're one of the few current-phones that have hardware keyboards. I've been waiti…

I'm in Edinburgh, Scotland. There are a few games companies, a lot of banks, and a few random shops that hire sysadmins. I've won places, and declined places, solely on the basis of small-c…

Your site gives little details about why somebody would use this over something like metasploit. PS. Your github links point to a 404: https://github.com/levitate/levitate …

I ssh into a remote VPS, where all my mail is delivered into ~/Maildir. From there I read it with lumail, if I have problems I revert to mutt. I've got webmail setup for those times when I&#…

Sadly it seems that the time of day, and similar things, have more effect on the submission than anythign else. Even posts that garner many response of "No demo?", "No screenshots?"…

See this link for more details on that : http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~max/docs/okws.pdf

It has been interesting to see the rise of forms that wish you to type in your email address not once, but twice. In an attempt to verify the user entered it correctly. Those forms annoy me no end, i…

The biggest problem I see here is that many companies keep their bug-lists to themselves, and actively do not wish to publish them in an externally visible fashion. Open source projects benefit from h…

> As mentioned in OP, it is MySQL. That's not specific enough. Yes, the problem is manifesting itself via MySQL, but the bottleneck will be somewhere else; whether RAM, CPU, or I/O-wait.…

In 2005 I reported a crashing bug with large iframe widths/heights in mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292279 Sadly no bounty for me!…

You might enjoy my new scriptable client then, although it suffers from a few design decisions I believe are acceptable: * Maildir only. * Shell out to sendmail. I do enjoy scripting though; for examp…

I started with z80 on the Spectrum, and was pleased that x86 was largely similar. I guess it helps that people from Intel founded Zilog.

I've cracked games, for lives, and so on, since I was about 14 years old. Then later I used to turn "demo" versions of PC-software into full versions and the vast majority of all the p…

I hae something like this in my ~/.bashrc file: for i in ~/.bash.d/* ~/.local.bash.d/; do test -e $i && source $i done Which functionally does wh…

I "solved" that problem by having two repositories: dotfiles & dotfiles-private. The public repository has .bashrc, etc in it. The private repository has ~/.mutt/work-muttrc, …

The layout is the hardest part for me - but yes I agree it needs work. I've killed the whitespace in the index and reset it to black on white for the moment. I'll have to work on the layout…

This is now possible. http://forum.spam-box.co.uk/tag/gui,bug

Interesting, I guess I'll have to install it and take a look. (I've been a long-term mutt user until now, but I did use pine/alpine a few years ago.)

I've just posted my onw HN-inspired forum: https://github.com/skx/gathering/ This is written in Perl, and has some interesting features. But I was inspired by HN becau…

Not only would we have to consider you losing our data we'd have to consider that our logins would go offline if we had networking issues between ourselves and your location. Offloading, and outs…

So you're looking for projects that are popular enough to be useful, but are lacking upkeep and attention from their maintainers? You might appreciate looking at www.lookingforpullrequests.com wh…

There's your next startup idea! Instead of a vpn-service for privacy/security, offer one to do 4-to-6 proxying.

I didn't care, I just wanted to be happy. I've pierced body parts, been a DJ, been a developer, and now I'm a sysadmin. I'll keep doing that until it the balance of "mostly f…

It looks cute, but the biggest frustration was trying to click on a thumbnail to see the full sized image, only for the image to have changed in the meantime. I kept half-seeing interesting images, bu…