Baldy’s Paradox

Okay you want to block all that crap that is filling your mailbox on a daily basis and your ISP says that they are doing all they can, yeah right! Well spanky there is a way that you can clean your mailbox so that you don’t have to see all the Viagra,Bank Loans, and penis launcher ads, but still get the stuff that you do want to read.

What you want is SpamAssassin, a cross platform tool that sorts out all the bad stuff and filters the good and saves you a lot of time and trouble when checking your mail.The trick with Spamassassin is you have Ham and Spam, Ham is the good stuff, or I should say what you consider to be good and bad, some folks love spam I hear. And how does this magic work you ask? Spamassassin works with rules, some of which are really basic and then there are the custom ones that you write to make your mailbox even more secure.

Now before you say this is way to techy for you me to do,take a second and check out the links that are below and you will see that all it takes is a minute with a text editor and you will be in business.
Make Custom Rules
Custom Rulesets
Fine Tuning Spamassassin

And yes they are easy and yes they really do work. So with just a couple of minutes of work you will be able to open your mailbox every morning without the pain of spam hitting you between the eyes. So have fun and enjoy the web once again.

Technorati Tags: Security, Software

When the Dell/Ubuntu machines were announced, it was possible to extend the default warranty to 2-4 years as well as adding “CompleteCare” accidental breakage protection. These options have since been quietly removed from all Ubuntu systems though remain on the Vista ones. Is Dell serious about supporting Linux or was this all just a PR stunt?

Personally I could care less. Hey, what can I say, I’m cheap, I never buy extra warranty.

Source: Digg

~LC

Technorati Tags: Dell, Ubuntu

It’s no secret that ATI Technologies has had a rough time in the past delivering display drivers that met the expectations of their customers. When ATI started out producing a FireGL and Radeon Linux driver they for some time were greatly behind NVIDIA’s feature-rich driver. The early ATI Linux drivers had lacked essential functionality such as PCI Express and x86_64 architecture support and was also affected by stability and performance problems along with a great deal of bugs. However, over time many of these issues have been worked out and ATI has dedicated more resources to the advancement of their Linux software, but that’s not to say they have been sailing smoothly. It had taken ATI approximately six months to deliver Radeon X1000 (R500) Linux product support and it is going on a year now that they have been lacking AIGLX support for Compiz and Beryl. Their current generation fglrx Linux driver is also handicapped when it comes to the performance capabilities with the fglrx driver performing much slower than the Windows ATI Catalyst driver and that of NVIDIA’s driver. While ATI/AMD is working steadfast in addressing all of these issues and further enhancing their level of Linux support, many of their customers do not realize all of the work that goes into these drivers. You don’t need to go far to find Linux users flaming about the lack of a particular feature or those bashing the driver over an experience they had years ago, but these consumers often do not realize the time invested into these drivers and that ATI/AMD is doing something about improving these drivers.

Last year when AMD announced their acquisition of ATI it led many to wonder how this would impact the quality of their Linux support and driver. Some had even speculated that AMD would be opening the code to at least a subset of their graphics drivers, and while this issue has come up again more recently, we will cover this particular topic in a different article. In this article we will be exposing what truly consists of the ATI/AMD driver development cycle and ultimately what they are really doing to improve their image in the Linux community. We have been granted unprecedented access to share with you their once unknown driver development model.

Source: Phoronix.Com Read more..

~LC

Technorati Tags: ATI, AMD, Linux

Version 1.0

Author: Falko Timme

Last edited 05/31/2007

The last few weeks have seen a dramatic increase in spam (once again). Estimates say that spam makes now up for 80 - 90% of all emails, and many mail servers have difficulties in managing the additional load caused by the latest spam, and spam filters such as SpamAssassin do not recognize large parts of that spam as they did before. Fortunately, we can block a big amount of that spam at the MTA level, for example by using blacklists, running tests on the sender and recipient domains, etc. An additional benefit of doing this is that it lowers the load on the mail servers because the (resource-hungry) spamfilters have to look at less emails.

1 Preliminary Note

This is just a quick guide showing you how you can configure Postfix (2.x and 1.x) to block spam before entering the server. It’s more or less self-explanatory. However, after applying this to your own mail server, you should check the mail log to make sure that no legitmate mails are blocked.

You should also take a look at this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_antispam

And this category: http://www.howtoforge.com/taxonomy_menu/1/78/24 has some more great anti-spam solutions.

Continue..

~LC

Technorati Tags: Postfix, Spam

A McAfee report profiles the professionalization of data theft, including technologies to steal information, block a service or send spam. Plus: Where malware will strike next

It’s the year of skinny pants, hybrid cars, Facebook – and botnets.

In the world of cyber-crime, the theme of the year is botnets, said James Lewis, director and senior fellow of the technology and public policy program with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

ust a few weeks ago, botnets were responsible for the attacks against government sites in Estonia. Cyber-criminals are organizing these botnets into a weapon in order to steal information, block a service or send spam, said Lewis, who was speaking at a press conference for Monday’s release of the McAfee North America Criminology Report: Organized Crime and the Internet 2007.

Source: It Business

~LC

Technorati Tags: Botnets, Crime, Security

An unusual piece of malware - a dialler that automatically dials premium rate international numbers via a PC’s analogue modem - has topped Fortinet’s latest ranking of the most frequently seen IT security threats.

According to Fortinet, “Malware such as this, which involves a bot embedding a dialler, is particularly rare and in this domain, the volume of [the bot, dubbed] W32/Dialer.PZ!tr is unprecedented.”

Fortinet says that the bot was primarily reported throughout Mexico and the United States, with Europe and Africa being the destination locations for the calls. It suggested that Mexico was targeted because it has high use of dial-up modems, and the United States because of its high population.

Source: It Wire

~LC

Technorati Tags: Security, Malware

Hot on the heels of 32GB SSD flash drives from Sandisk and competitors comes the inevitable doubling in capacity to 64GB, promising faster operation and lower power usage for better mobile computing.

Hard drives aren’t dead yet, with the latest from Western Digital pumping 250GB into a 2.5-inch hard drive, but flash manufacturers aren’t too far behind with the release of 64GB flash drives in 2.5 and 1.8-inch sizes, with Sandisk demonstrating its latest wares at Computex Taipei 2007, in Taiwan, this week (June 5-9).

Source: It Wire

~LC

Technorati Tags: Sandisk, SSD, Hardware,

Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.

Upload your photos in an instant with Kflickr

Google Map Image Cutter (GMIC) is a free software program that automatically slices up images, arranges them in tiles, and puts them into a Google Maps browser. It allows you to embed panoramas or extremely large images into Web pages, so visitors can zoom down to as much detail as they want and pan and scroll with the mouse.

Supply the big picture with Google Map Image Cutter

Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail’s interface and allows you…

 

Technorati tags: Security

Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG