Phil’s post has a couple of ways to keep up with blogs that have been updated. He details using Bloglines, blo.gs, blogstreet and more….
Month: August 2003
Clara are now testing email address’s provided as the “from” field in emails sent via their servers. If they are unable to check this email address is valid by sending a bounce message then the outgoing email will be rejected as per their email to the announce list. They should really have announced they were going to do this *before* they implemented it, and I don’t really see how this is going to stop spam emails as most email address’s used ARE valid – they are just not valid for the spammer!
Just taking ownership of this blog on 
. The blogstreet map is interesting but I’ve not even heard of some of the blogs on it!
Looking at The Realm of Chadness shows a weird effect with Firebird in that the text of the main posts are truncated at the right hand side. If I disable the CSS completely with the StyleSwitcher then the entire page is unreadable. Text wraps in ie6 ok though.
I noticed on ServerGeek that he has a feed from symantec with the latest news on virus’s that have been discovered and removal tools available. This is useful to monitor the latest virus news and can be semi-customised and embedded into your own pages. For the moment I’ve got the feed installed at /virus with nothing else there. However I’d like to customise MovableType’s category archives so that I have the alerts on the left and my Virus posts on the right of the page. That way I have all my anti-virus information in one place…….
I’m finding more and more things that I want to do with MT – just need the time to do it – but that is what Bank Holiday Weekends are for 🙂
SecurityFocus HOME Columnists has an article about how blogs can be another tool in the Security Pro’s Toolkit. It has some very interesting links and comments about RSS feeds, which reminds me – I really need to sort my logo’s out.
I think I have found out why our mail server is playing silly wotsits!
UpdateThis also explains why we’ve not had many virus alerts coming through – looking at the NAV logs, I don’t think it has quietened down at all.
After the 170odd emails that we received yesterday I would have thought we’d have had quite a few today come into the office….instead we’ve had about 6. Thats really weird how the virus has basically stopped overnight….(not that I’m complaining btw!)
Been having some weird problems with our webmail access to our mail server today. The MD of the company said it was giving him an error (which I eventually tracked down to the main page that comes up after you’ve logged in.) A couple of hours later, with no changes made, this page was coming up ok. When I then got home and tried to access the page with internet explorer (the best browser for Outlook Web Access) I get a http 500 error message, yet the pages are fine using Mozilla Firebird – ie6:0, Firebird:1 🙂
Will have to wait until tomorrow to see what the problem is as I’m not in the office!
Mcafee have an interesting page that tells you how much hacking/virus activity has come from the network you are on. The results from my ip at home tells me that 4 ip address’s have been detected – that probably means 4 people in the town I live in and use Pipex are/were infected.