April 2011

Groan: New International System of Units – April 19, 2011

A little humor for your day, courtesy of Jack Gannsle.

  1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
  2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
  3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
  4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
  5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
  6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
  7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
  8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
  9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
  10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
  11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
  12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
  13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
  14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
  15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
  16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
  17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
  18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
  19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
  20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
  21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
  22. 1 rations = 1 decoration
  23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
  24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
  25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
  26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
  27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

 

Boring Announcement – April 13, 2011

Not much to say, but I figured there hasn't been anything posted in a while, so thought I should at least post something.

Lime Daley has expanded our existing servers a bit - one customer now has 16GB of RAM exclusively for their site, and another customer needed more disk space, and so we installed a RAID6 array with 8TB of usable space.

Procmail Recipe to Filter Addresses in the From Field – April 13, 2011

I've noticed a common spam method lately, which I'm not quite sure what the idea is since it is so obviously spam, and trivially filterable that it doesn't seem like it will last very long, but a couple have ended up in my inbox, and since I really don't like emails in my inbox I decided I would write a filter to keep this type out.

:0:
* ^From:[^@]+@[^@]+@
spam/mail

Pretty simple - just look for multiple @ signs in the From address - I can't think of a reason why someone would do that on purpose.  Though maybe some people have "joe@example.com" <joe@example.com> as their from address - I'll have to see if it results in any false positives.