2003
I’m off to San Francisco today to grab some coffee with Om and have some sushi with Dad. It’s raining like crazy here so the ferry ride should be a little bumpy. My family friends, the Piszyks, get in this afternoon. Good stuff.
I got the bikes all ready for a ride to the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday and today it rains. And rains. That figures. Hopefully in the next few days it will clear up, especially before the 31st. I’m going to the Boston College/Colorado State San Francisco Bowl at Pac Bell and it’s going to suck if it rains.
So keep your fingers crossed.
- DJ Format – Music for the Mature B-Boy
- Unkle – Never Never Land
- Guster – Keep It Together
- Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
- The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
- A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
- Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
- 311 – Evolver
- Bonobo – Dial M for Monkey
- Massive Attack – 100th Window
Honorable Mention
- Ryan Adams – Rock N Roll
- 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Leona Naess – Leona Naess
- Nitin Sawhney – Human
- The Strokes – Room on Fire
- Thrills – So Much for the City
D. Keith Robinson also has an excellent list on his site.
5 megapixels, good battery life, and it’s light. Thanks, Santa!
I went to go see “Return of the King” yesterday — it was awesome as expected. It was my personal favorite out of the three and remained very true to the book. I’ll write a full review up later.
I managed to get all my shopping done so no last minute things to do on this “fine” Christmas Eve. It’s raining like crazy here. Most of downtown Mill Valley flooded yesterday, especially right by my house. Fun fun.
Have a Merry Christmas! I’ll post again the day after.
Further proof that Captain Helmet is the man:
My friend Mike,
Thank you so much for your kind thoughts and words. This is so great! I am in your debt for making my presence on the web. I can’t express how elated and surprised I was to find out about this! Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything! I am much obliged!
Your friend,
Roy Matayoshi
On a related note, we beat Michigan State in basketball! Magic Johnson was there, but he was cheering for Michigan State. During halftime, the court was officially renamed John Wooden Court at Pauley Pavilion. And to think, Magic practices at UCLA all the time…no love. But we won anyway.
Unbelievable! The 49ers beat the Eagles at home in overtime. ESPN has a recap.
Tonight I saw In America down at the Sequoia. It was awesome. I bet money it will get a nomination. The two girls in that film are simply adorable.
Dreamhost webmail2 now includes SpamAssassin. Compiling your own local copy of the filter is unnecessary.
First off, this article applies only to Dreamhost users who have a shell account. You need a shell account because there is some required UNIX scripting involved. The whole process takes about 5 minutes to get up and running.
Installing SpamAssassin
Download the latest stable release of SpamAssassin, preferably in tar.gz format, from spamassassin.org. Open up your FTP program. If you don’t have an FTP client, download SmartFTP (Windows users) or Fetch (Mac users).
Log on to your web site via FTP and upload the SpamAssassin TAR file in BINARY format to the root directory. The root directory will list your web site, e.g. steinbaugh.com and it should contain a folder called Maildir.
Next, you need to log on to the server and run some commands. If you don’t have an SSH client, I recommend PuTTY (Windows users) or MacSSH (Mac users). Opt to log on to the server — use your domain name, e.g. steinbaugh.com — via SSH and be sure to use Port 22 (default SSH port). You will be greeted with a username/password prompt. If you can’t remember your login, reset it in the Dreamhost control panel.
Once you log in successfully, run the following commands:
tar xvfz Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61.tar.gz
cd ~/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sausr SYSCONFDIR=~/saetc
make
make install
SpamAssassin is now installed on the server. The next step is to set it up.
Configuring SpamAssassin
I’ve already created the four files you need to get SpamAssassin up and running. They are:
- .forward.postfix
- .procmailrc
- spam.rc
- user_prefs
These files are available for download: spamassassin-2.61.tar.gz.
Again, upload the TAR file to your root directory and untar it using the SSH client. All you need to type to untar the file is:
tar xvfz spamassassin-2.61.tar.gz
Go back into your FTP client and locate the four extracted files (should be in a folder titled spamassassin-2.61). Move .forward.postfix and .procmailrc to the root directory. If these files already exist, back them up first and replace them.
Next, create a folder titled .spamassassin on the web root and move the user_prefs file into it.
Finally, move the spam.rc file to your procmail directory. If the procmail folder doesn’t exist, create it.
For testing purposes, I recommend modifying the .procmailrc file by turning verbose mode on and logging to all. This way you can check and make sure that SpamAssassin is working properly.
Now, send yourself an e-mail. View the full message header of the e-mail. You should see SpamAssassin outputting a header that says version 2.61. If it says version 2.20, the install failed. Dreamhost has an old version of SpamAssassin on the server which is currently 2.20. If you install is corrupted, version 2.20 will be called up instead.
I currently have Razor reporting turned off. Some Dreamhost customers have reported to me that Razor doesn’t work well with the SpamAssassin install. If you get Razor working with SA 2.61, please report what you did here. I heard that using -h with spamassassin in the spam.rc file might resolve the issue.
Once you’re done configuring and have verified that SpamAssassin is working, feel free to delete the Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61 directory from the server. All of the important SpamAssassin files are in saetc and sausr.
Upgrading
For a successful upgrade, delete the saetc and sausr folders. Then follow the guide above using the new version. The upgrade should work!
Ingredients
- 6 Eggs
- 1 cup + 1 tablespoon Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- 3/4 cup Brandy
- 1/3 cup Dark Rum (Captain Morgan for best flavor, but Myers is OK)
- 2 cups Whipping Cream
- 2 cups Milk
Directions
All liquids should be very cold. Refrigerate in advance.
Beat the eggs for 2 or 3 minutes with an electric mixer at medium speed until very frothy. Gradually beat in the sugar, vanilla, and the nutmeg. Turn the mixer off and stir in the cold brandy, rum, whipping cream and milk Chill before serving. Sprinkle individual servings with more nutmeg.
I drove up north on the 5 last week back to Marin County. When I got home, I booted up the computer and turned on AIM to see if any of my friends were online. However, right when the program opened, I was greeted with an audio ad. I don’t see ads on AIM because I use DeadAIM. Nevertheless, AIM managed to play the audio ads even though I have ad blocking turned on.
According to AOL, they are going to stop playing ads thirty days after the launch, which started in December. Look for them to cease in January. However, people shouldn’t just sit back and tolerate this aggressive move. AOL is going to start broadcasting audio through AIM on a regular basis and they’re just beta testing right now.
As an AIM user — I really hate to admit that, but too many of my friends use the program — I promise that if AOL keep this audio ad program going, I’m dumping AIM forever. I don’t agree with advertisers that they have a right to advertise on my computer. They don’t own the computer and they don’t own me. I’m going to take every action neccesary to get rid of ads on my computer. I already do it with my web browser and with AIM. I don’t want to see a single ad on my machine, ever.
A lot of people in the weblog community are already pissed off by AOL’s tactics and I am too. This is going too far. Audio is a very intrustive form of advertising, almost as bad as filling the whole screen. At first I thought my parents somehow downloaded a virus because this sound was coming out of nowhere…nothing was running in the Task Manager that looked like spyware. Then I knew it had to be AIM because only AOL would do something that low. They must be stopped.
Thankfully, JDennis.net is working on a fix for DeadAIM. In the meantime, I’m exploring the Windows messenger alternative. Why can’t people just use IRC?
Other people who hate AOL as much as I do:
Finals are officially over. I’m making the trek up the 5 tomorrow morning. Hopefully I’ll get a jump on traffic. Here are my current plans for vacation:
- Go to Lucinda’s and order a carnitas burrito.
- Check out the new Apple store in Corte Madera.
- Get all my Christmas shopping done.
- Visit Union Square — when I went over Thanksgiving, people were out in droves.
- Have some dim sum.
- Sleep.
- Do some web site updating…lots of backend maintenance stuff. Not a lot of fun, but it needs to get done.
San Francisco, here I come.
The big final is today — Life Science 4. It’ll all be over soon.
Woo hoo! I finished my Spanish essay. Three more days until freedom.
If you own a lot of CDs, you’ll want to get it on this new contest.
We lost by two points. Two stinking points. Watch, Kentucky will take the #1 ranking next week…so close, but yet so far away.
Well, the Spanish essay is almost done. Two paragraphs to go. Must…finish…writing.
So indeed USC got bumped down to #3 like I predicted. The BCS system is really screwed up, but honestly, I think the matching between LSU and Oklahoma is fair. LSU has played harder teams than USC and I do think strength of schedule matters, but still, having the #1 team in both polls not play in the championship is ludacrious. Well, the Rose Bowl will be interesting. Go Michigan! They were my original pick to win it all this year…and now they have a chance to defeat the Trojans.
Photo taken from the front page of moby.com.
Har har har…George Bush is a miserable failure. Just try it on Google. This trick is so tired.
ESPN’s Brad Edwards claims that if LSU, Oklahoma and Boise State all win tonight, USC will likely be bumped down to #3 and knocked out of the Sugar Bowl game. That would be awesome. Then again, seeing Oklahoma crush them wouldn’t be so bad either.