Archive for April, 2004

Social Networks and Email Whitelists

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

Here’s the idea:
Use social networks to automatically build email whitelists.  How often do you actually get real email from a total stranger.  Chances are they know you or know a friend of yours. Your whitelist would be safe as long as nobody in your social network is a friend of a spammer or whitelists a […]

Oops

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

Looks like I may have lost an entry or two from the server move. What server move? Yeah, it was kinda news to me as well. Given that I have two whole readers out there, I’m probably not going to find a cached copy. I usually keep my caches at the minimum amount.
Yeah.  I should have […]

A UNIX Shell Lesson

Tuesday, April 13th, 2004

The lesson is: Wildcard expansion is performed by your shell. The commands won’t see the wildcards.
So if you type something like:
cp *.c somedir
it actually becomes
cp 1.c 2.c somedir
But don’t accidentally forget the destination, because then you’ll end up with:
cp 1.c 2.c
And you’ll end up overwriting 2.c with 1.c.
Luckily, I had a backup. Too bad it’s […]

Gmail and Its 1000 MB

Saturday, April 10th, 2004

Here’s my opinion on the matter.
The 1000 MB of email storage is strictly marketing. It’s a nice big number that blows away others’ offerings. They could have used any other impressive number. They’re probably going to keep all of your mail, but add an artificial limit to what the user can “see”.

Google is already storing most […]

Vacation

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

I went to Hawaii for a bunch of days the last week and a half. It was great fun, and at the same time it’s good to be back.
I may post about it more (I’m pretty busy right now), but you can read a bit about it on Shiz’s site.