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April 21, 2006
Email Addresses for Training SpamBox
It's important to note that people who use mail programs other than the U-M web mail at mail.umich.edu can also train the SpamBox filter. In addition to the "This is Spam" and "This is Not Spam" web mail links mentioned in ITCSDocs: Using SpamBox for E-Mail Spam Filtering (S4314), there are two email addresses used for the same purpose.
To train the filter that a message is spam, just bounce, resend or forward the message to this email address:
spam.your_uniqname@mail.umich.edu
To train the filter that a message isn't spam, use this address:
notspam.your_uniqname@mail.umich.edu
Posted by lsloan at 12:25 PM | Comments (0)
April 07, 2006
Run Linux (or Windoze) under Mac OS X
Parallels invites people to "Experience the First Virtualization Solution for Intel-powered Macs!". It allows people to "use Windows, Linux and any other operating system at the same time as Mac OS X".
I guess if you have to slum in the Windoze world or do some Linux cross-development, this would be useful!
Posted by lsloan at 02:56 PM | Comments (0)
Finding RPMs Is a Pain
I was helping somebody set up a SuSE Linux server for some Python web applications. The Python code needed to use libxml2 and libxslt to produce output from templates written in XSL. My friend had installed the libs, including all the "devel" and "python" ones. The only problem was that there wasn't an RPM for libxslt-python-1.1.14-3 to be found. It just wasn't included with his SuSE distribution.
So I turned to Google.
I found a page called Novell: SUSE Linux 10.0: libxslt-python. That seemed like just the place to get what we needed. But it wasn't.
It was only a description. And there were links to their FTP server and other mirrors of it where the file might be available. But the SuSE FTP sites are just horrendous. It's very hard to find the files you need. Just when you think you've made it into the correct directory based on system architecture, OS version, etc, you can't find the file.
I ended up going back to Google, searching for the specific file name mentioned on Novell's page, and checking the results carefully. I finally found the file in a mirror of OpenSuSE. We downloaded and installed it. It worked right away.
So, I wonder... Why doesn't Novell just put a direct link to the file on that description page? Why don't they make it easy to find the file on their FTP site and mirrors? It shouldn't be necessary to resort to Google or rpmfind.net to find Linux RPMs.
Posted by lsloan at 02:46 PM | Comments (0)
April 05, 2006
No Work and All Stress Makes Jack a Sick Boy
Study results from the Univ. of Michigan Institute for Social Research claims that job insecurity leads to poor health:
Epidemic of job insecurity takes a major toll on worker health
Posted by lsloan at 09:23 AM | Comments (0)