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Sun Dec 10 19:02:07 2006 GMT: jabberd 2.1, omniORB 4.1, OpenWatcom 1.6
Mon Dec 04 22:26:05 2006 GMT: HP-UX 11iv3
Sun Dec 03 21:23:25 2006 GMT: Inclusion in Google's index
I got an e-mail from Google the other day about inclusion of svn.cmeerw.net in their search index (because I currently block any bots with a robots.txt file as this is a Subversion repository).
Of course, the e-mail contains "helpful" information on how to allow Google (and only Google) to crawl that Web site (as I didn't know what I was doing when setting up the robots.txt file).
But even more worryingly, it also advertises their Sitemap service and lets me know on how I can remove myself from their "mailing list".
Well, this looks a lot like Spam to me, or more precisely: UCE (Unsolicited commercial e-mail). It was definitely unsolicited, it advertises their commercial services and, quite obviously :-), it was an e-mail. You could argue about the "commercial" bit, but in my opinion, any unsolicited mail that informs you how to remove yourself from their mailing list qualifies as Spam. And where would we be if all search engines start e-mailing web sites...
Fri Dec 01 18:18:08 2006 GMT: Alcatel-Lucent
Today was "Day 1" for Alcatel-Lucent and it's now also exactly one year since I came to Swindon.
Sun Nov 26 21:58:34 2006 GMT: newsfeed.cmeerw.net
I have now installed a news server on my virtual server, mainly to setup a news peering for the openwatcom.* hierarchy between news.openwatcom.org and the outside world (currently peering with news.albasani.net). There is now also some information about the openwatcom.* hierarchy on my new newsfeed page, but I guess I will be going through the process of properly establishing the openwatcom Usenet hierarchy according to the Usenet Hierarchy Administration FAQ.
Sat Nov 18 10:35:24 2006 GMT: Bush Approves Alcatel-Lucent Merger/Takeover
President Bush has now approved the Alcatel-Lucent merger/takeover, see this story @ IHT. Lucent has already issued a press release saying that the transaction is expected to complete on November 30, 2006.
According to this story @ Reuters close to 90 % of the headcount reductions will be in North America and Western Europe and Alcatel and Lucent "know precisely in every country which head will taken"...
Wed Nov 15 18:41:57 2006 GMT: Contact Form Spam (Cont'd)
My modifications to the contact page about 2 weeks ago have really helped, no more spam has been sent through the contact form. :-)
Sun Nov 12 12:21:30 2006 GMT: C++09
Sun Nov 12 12:07:35 2006 GMT: gaim and fvwm's UrgencyFunc
Sun Oct 29 21:01:32 2006 GMT: Contact Form Spam
Sun Oct 22 21:21:15 2006 GMT: Belgium and Luxembourg Photos
Mon Oct 16 19:03:13 2006 GMT: Online Again
