As you might know the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is currently working on the final version of the PostgreSQL Database Management System (DBMS) 8.3 which has some nice features. Unfortunately, there is no prebuilt package available for Mac OS X of the current beta versions. But fortunately building PostgreSQL is very easy on Leopard:
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Recently I was flooded with e-mails a friend sent me. Mails with PowerPoint or PDF attachments of hundreds of kilobytes with jokes. Although I told him to stop this he ignored me and continued sending me this crap.
I could create a rule in Mail.app which deletes such mails but that wouldn’t help as the rule mechanism only works with received mails. But I don’t even want to have to download them.
A better solution is to let the mail server (here Exim) deny such mails while they are delivered.
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With the Linux kernel version 2.6.14 a technology called FUSE was merged into the mainstream Linux kernel. FUSE stands for Filesystem in Userspace and it allows normal, non-privileged users to create their own filesystems.
Amit Singh (author of the book Mac OS X Internals) ported this great technology to the Mac: MacFUSE.
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After years of bleat-less serving my web pages and emails I had to shut down euklid forever. His last signs of life:
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If you are looking for a good C tutorial you should definitely have a look at Uli Kusterers ‘Masters of the Void‘.
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Due to the increasing amount of annoying SPAM mails there exist many techniques to reduce that junk. One very successful approach is called “Greylisting“.
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