Posts by JJ James

OpenOffice 3.0 - the only option for masochistic Linux users

FYI

FYI, there is an option to use native file choosers instead of the crummy one provided by Openoffice.

After several years of thinking "Damn this filechooser sucks" every time I saved a file, I found out that OpenOffice provides an option to replace it.

It is found at the following convenient location:

Tools > Options > Openoffice.org > General > Open/save dialogues /[ - ] Use openoffice.org dialogues

Oz watchdogs howl over 'Cyber-Safety' net filter

Rabbit proof firewall

According to the proposal, banned pages will be replaced with the following message:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

Spam filtering services throttle Gmail to fight spammers

TrendMicro blocking Gmail

It looks like Trend Micro is now completely blocking mail from Gmail accounts:

Technical details of permanent failure:

TEMP_FAILURE: Gmail tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. The error that the other server returned was: 450 450 5.7.1 Mail from 64.233.166.177 blocked using Trend Micro Network Reputation Service. Please see http://www.mail-abuse.com/cgi-bin/lookup?ip_address=64.233.166.177.

I think that Herby's idea has some merit. Forcing users fill out a captcha for every email is too inconvenient, but getting users to fill out a captcha IF their email looks like spam, is less so. That is unless you happen to be a legitimate Viagra salesman. Things are really hard for them these days.

It would be too expensive for spammers to pay for a captcha to be solved by humans for *every email*, even using third world labour.

Paris, because she could make things hard for a Viagra salesman