An Old One, But Good One…

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort,
and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn’t hash,
then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall.

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse;
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
‘cuz sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang.

When the copy on your floppy’s getting sloppy in the disk,
and the macro code instructions causing unnecessary risk,
then you’ll have to flash the memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM,
and then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!

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Where’s My Passport

Plenty of travel lined up for this month. Tomorrow I’m off to Tokyo for a week and then when I get back I just have a few days to wash all my clothes before packing them back into the suitcase to head off to Orlando for Lotusphere.

Travelling on British Airways in Business Class I should be able to get enough One World points to get me into the Aer Lingus Gold Circle club which means future travel will be that little bit better with access to the airport lounges and priority upgrades etc. The flight to Tokyo is just over 12 hour which means that I’m leaving Ireland at 9am Sunday morning and arriving into Tokyo at 9am Monday morning Tokyo time. I can just guess that the jet lag is going to be terrible. Thankfully Monday is a bank holidy in Japan so I’ll have a day of rest before starting work.

The camera is packed so hopefully I’ll have plenty of pics to share when I get back.

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kSpam Really Rocks

We all know that spam is an email administrators nightmare. It clogs up bandwidth, takes up storage space and causes user to complain when they start receiving it. It’s also a nightmare to stop spam getting into your systems in the first place.

Thankfully Domino R6 introduced a number of new features that would help cut down on the amount of spam that would get into your system the biggest of these features being the ability to blacklist open relays from sending mail into your smtp listener. But blacklists can’t keep up with the number of mail systems that spammers use to bounce mail into your mailbox from so spam will still get in.

You could try content filtering, add some server based rules to try block messages that contain certain words, but what words are the right ones to block. Block the word ‘sex’ and you could be filtering out more then you realise, just like the UK House of Commons found out last year as reported by the BBC : E-mail vetting blocks MPs’ sex debate.

But the nightmare is finally over for Domino Administrators with a great AntiSpam Filter called kSpam by Tom Lyne which is available for FREE on OpenNTF. Yes you read that correctly I said FREE*.

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29 Days Has January

Looks like a sneeky little bug has wormed it’s way into the calendar code of the BlogSphere template that results in the calendar only displaying 29 days for this month. Might be a leap year thing…

I’ll get to the bottom of it and get a fix out as soon as possible…

Update : The fixed version of the template has been uploaded to OpenNTF. As I suspected it was a leap year issue.

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