Posts in the "tech" category - Chris Hardie

Spam of the day: From: peters mikel <petersmikel@yahoo.ca> To: chris@summersault.com Subject: my good friend reply me quick. I am very happy to write you email, i hope you are in good condition of health. as for me iam fine. my name is mike chris am living in spain i want you to been my good friend. please, I dont have any friend, i will have only you with love forever. i want a good relationship that will develop forever . email here my tele number 34606367081 call me i hope to hear...

This wins the "spam of the day" award: ------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:07:22 From: GOURANGA <NITAIGOURANGA@AOL.COM> Subject: GOURANGA Call out Gouranga be happy Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga Say Gouranga my friend Gouranga.... That which brings the highest happiness ------------------------------------------ I so hear ya, dude.

I was working hard on a project today and this error window came up. It pretty much describes the kind of month I'm having. Philosophically interesting and outrageously frustrating at the same time.

As a part of running a website hosting company, I get to watch a lot of interesting uses of the web go by, especially the one- or two-person operations and personal websites that we host. There's M., who posts her beautiful paintings online, M., who runs a little cafe in Illinois that I'll probably never visit, A. who runs a small dry cleaners in NYC and uses the web to handle pickup requests, L., who sells surplus MREs, and T., the rocker/writer/actor/critic who writes for pages and pages about...

This document discusses methods for performing a thorough and effective security audit on a computer system or network. It will not specifically discuss the technical details of prevention on specific computer systems, but will rather provide a general checklist for examining the security on a computer system. (This document has aged somewhat, but the checklist items are still quite applicable. It's too bad that computer security isn't an area seeing more improvement.) If you're interested...

Today I had a speaking engagement on combating unsolicited junkmail (spam). It was one of my first opportunities to speak about this topic to a public audience, and I was glad for the chance to share all of the knowledge I've accumulated about what is increasingly the bane of the Internet. A lot of people seem to be content to hit the delete key as they sort through their e-mail, but I think many are realizing that this approach doesn't "scale" well -- insert here numerous statistics about how much...