Have you checked out the redesigned Photos and Slideshows on Yahoo! News? I recommend Most Viewed Photos slideshow.
sad news about Terry Pratchett
If you are a fan of Terry Pratchett and you missed the news - he has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's.
Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet :o)" he wrote in his message. "I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.
Good to see he has his humor intact.
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Donald Trump
I have heard very few people say anything good about Donald Trump. I have seen him on tv only once on The Apprentice. When the time came to fire one of the contestants, he was very fair. He articulated the reasons for firing very well. I think he is a fair and straight-forward guy. Here is a snip from his interview.
woohoo! audiobook ready now!
I have been waiting for a long time for this audiobook to be available for download. Please put your hands together and welcome The Count of Monte Cristo audiobook, available as a free download from LibriVox.
A big thanks to the volunteers at LibriVox for the hard work.
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slow nfs mount in ubuntu
On my home server, I have a nfs server running and I use nfs to mount my music to my laptop. Ever since the first day the nfs mount process used to be dead slow. Today I got irritated enough to check out if this is a common problem.
It seems that this is a common enough problem. The reason is that nfs requires portmap to be running on both the client and the server side.
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youtube search - sort by video playtime
The youtube search does a good job of searching videos. In its search page, it allows you to search by popularity/ratings/date. I have found that videos with longer playing time are usually the ones I am interested in, however, there is no option to sort the results by playing time.
I did a bit of digging in the Youtube Developer's guide and saw that they give the length of the video in seconds. The next piece was Yahoo! Pipes. I created a pipe which would fetch videos from youtube and then passes the results through the sort operator to sort the results based on the yt:duration field. Tada! That gives me videos matching my search criteria near the top.
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analysis of x-headers in spam
RFC 822 allows people to define and use additional header fields in
their emails. These fields start with X- in their names. For
example, X-Quarantine-ID or X-Spam-Score. Usually these headers are
not too interesting. I wanted to see if the spammers use any custom
fields in the spam messages that they send out.
The complete analysis is posted here. The headers that I found interesting (i.e. the ones that occur very infrequently)
- X-DSNContext
- This seems to be header set by MS Exchange
- X-AntiVirus: Checked,
- This seems to be header set be spammers to confuse the mail filter
- X-ME-UUID
- Looks like header set by some mail server
- X-Source, X-Source-Args, X-Source-Dir, X-Spam
- These are headers set by phplist
- X-Failed-Recipients
- This is a header generated by exim when it handles mailing lists. Looks like some spammer has a mailing list with all his targeted email ids in it.