A Dabbler’s Powerbook: finding my way

Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2003 @ 11:40 am
Filed Under Computing, Macintosh, POPfile
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When I wasn't shopping this weekend, I was trying to move past the "what a neat toy" phase with my new laptop. OS X is enough like XP to be familiar, and enough different to be both annoying and fascinating. That's been covered elsewhere; I'll likely leave it alone....

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Progress: slow changes

Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2003 @ 11:20 pm
Filed Under CityDesk, Code, Dabbler
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Spent more of the day than I'd intended reworking the site's index pages; first I had to figure out how to code the changes, then there was a lot of manual labor involved in implementing those changes. Most of the time was spent moving files.

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PopFile Revisited: another thousand messages received; a new version installed

Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 @ 6:18 pm
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security
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All in all, that's a rather impressive performance. The increasing spam count is also rather impressive; after all, I added this tool to my kit because the junk seemed to be getting out of hand.

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POPfile: sorting the mail

Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 @ 10:16 am
Filed Under Computing, POPfile, Security
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I receive between 50 and 100 e-mails each day, and read about 60% of those (the unread ones are either duplicates or spam). I used to read about 85% of my mail; the change in percentage is largely because of the increasing spam load. (Eudora has a reporting function; these numbers have some relation to reality.) Perhaps 65% of the real mail has baseball content of some sort or other; the rest is on a wide range of topics.

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Bugs: some testing notes

Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 @ 12:01 am
Filed Under Code, Computing
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Where I work, testing sometimes leads to debates about law and policy. Except for that little thing, Joe's got the story nailed down tight. Only it ain't tight at all. It's chaos.

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