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Dose any one try s3rsync.com ?

Marina — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:27 -0500

They claim to provide full rsync on top of s3.
Is it read work?

firewall

Guest — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01:53 -0500

Hi,
Great script - I've used it as the starter for my setup.

ShieldsUP notes that your script shows ports 0 and 1 as closed rather than in stealth mode, and also doesn't drop ICMP packets - meaning that if the machines are directly attached to the internet via ppp, or with an ADSL modem with no firewall, then they can be discovered.

Also your script doesn't handle dialup connections.

The following changes mitigates against these:

drop everything else on ppp
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -p udp -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -p tcp -m tcp --syn -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -p icmp -j DROP
Explcitly deal with port 0
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p tcp --sport 0
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p udp --sport 0
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p tcp --dport 0
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p udp --dport 0
Explcitly deal with port 1
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p tcp --sport 1
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p udp --sport 1
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p tcp --dport 1
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -p udp --dport 1

regards

Colin

I thought it was lovely and

elliot — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:11:18 -0500

I thought it was lovely and remarkable. I just couldn't believe I had never seen one before.

He's a handsome little devil

Jo — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:40:19 -0500

He's a handsome little devil to be sure.

I've updated this recently:

elliot — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:18:40 -0500

I've updated this recently: see this blog entry instead.

It's a script which you run from the command line, which presents itself as a web site. Behind the scenes, using the web site makes calls to the iPlayer site in the background. The other alternative is to run it as a scheduled task (Windows) or cron job (Linux), where the script will perform your searches and email the results.

It's not really intended for non-technical users, so if you're not a command line user, you may find it tricky to get started with.

The iPlayer

Andy from PC to TV senders — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:46:28 -0500

I'm not too clued up with scripting. So, is this an external script that you run when the search page is open, or does the script somehow tap into the iplayer search page?

Andy

Spamassassin and Spam Deletion

monkster — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:03:43 -0500

"most of it gets stopped by the Postfix server using Spamassassin"

I don't think this part is right. From wiki.apache.org/spamassassin:

"SpamAssassin itself will not delete any emails. It's only a filter which reads email in, and passes that same email out, modified in some way. If you want to delete emails, or redirect emails, you need to do it in whatever program calls SpamAssassin. "

The site then goes on to explain how to set up a procmail filter to drop spam at the server, it that is what you want to do.

In your case, do you think what is happening is that Thunderbird's Bayesian filter can learn what is junk instantly because of SpamAssassin headers? Thus you can achieve your end result, very little spam in the Inbox, but all the filtering is done by Thunderbird. I don't see Postfix dropping mail on the floor. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thank you for this mini-howto. I used it to set up Spamassassin on an Ubuntu server running Courrier IMAP in literally minutes, and it is working great. I also use Thunderbird. It is also easy to set a filter in Squirrelmail (web mail) to filter spamassassinated messages to the Inbox.Junk folder:

options/message filtering:

If Header contains X-Spam-Flag: YES then move to Junk

Ubuntu rocks!

Jim Miller — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:27:57 -0500

No comments as yet? This is excellent news! I've been waiting for a non-window, non-mac OS. Hope Ubuntu will live long. Nice to see Dell taking the leap.

Beans

Mark S — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:32:46 -0500

Good luck with the veges, I am on my third attempted batch of climbing French beans, the first two were destroyed by the cold. I will persist! There seem to be fewer slugs than last year at least. We are attempting: wild strawberries, lots of rocket & herbs, courgettes (Annika's idea, tried and failed last year), the aforementioned beans, tomatoes. And last year we got some tiny, tiny grapes. About the size of small peas, but appreciably grape-like and edible! Maybe I could make a really tiny bottle of wine.

Thx ;)

Prakash — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:18:12 -0500

thanks!though iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 0/0 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT is needed!

Don't I know I need those

elliot — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:21:51 -0500

Don't I know I need those modules.

I turned off the Last.fm module, just because it made my site crash if Last.fm timed out, unless I hacked in some changes to the Drupal HTTP client code. Which I didn't fancy maintaining. Glad to hear you've done some work on a new module for it. Good luck with it!

Last.fm and Tabbo module

muszek — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:33:07 -0500

Hi,

I've just finished a Last.fm and Tabbo module for Drupal 6... I don't know how much yours exactly works (don't have a working D5 installation around and your demo is either turned off or malfunctioning), but it seems to be similar (one difference is that mine also supports Tabbo.

P.S. You need some sort of anti-spam measures. Captcha + reCAPTCHA modules have been working fine for me (one site got literally thousands of spam comments. I deleted them all and installed those two modules - not even one bastard got through).

Technically, my fault :) I

elliot — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:12:08 -0500

Technically, my fault :) I should have included an empty /downloads directory inside the zip file. Unfortunately, I had created this file, but because it was empty it was left out of the zip by the archiver program (I think). I've rectified this now.

re: Threads

Kevin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:03:18 -0500

Actually, my fault. My script assumes you want to save to '/downloads'. Removing the threads gave me an error which said so. Threads now work fine. thanks.

Hello Kevin. Probably me

elliot — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:38:00 -0500

Hello Kevin. Probably me doing something wrong with threads (I'm not too hot on those). My suggestion would be to look at iplayer-dl.rb, around line 169. Take out:

t = Thread.new {

and

}

    t.run

a bit further down. This means you won't be able to do multi-threaded downloads (I don't think, anyway), and may have to wait for the download to complete before you can go to another page. But it might be a fix. Long term, could be a case of making Ruby threads work properly in the app..