About once a week, when my broadband connection goes down I have to log on to my Debian/Linux box and reset the interface (ifdown eth1 ; ifup eth1). Sometimes ifdown reports that the interface was not configured, sometimes it does not.
I’d like to find a way to automate that process. Preferably in a semi-intelligent manner: […]
Archive for July, 2003
Speaking of Outages…
25Jul03My ISP Still Sucks
24Jul03I loathe my broadband provider. They block outgoing SMTP traffic, one of the lamest anti-spam measures ever conceived. They are incapable of running a reliable DNS service, causing me endless grief and forcing me to run my own caching server. The service itself isn’t terribly reliable either — local or network outages occur daily, multi-hour […]
What Passes for Innovation
24Jul03Brighthand and Pocket PC Thoughts have linked to a month-old Datamonitor article about Microsoft loosening the Pocket PC hardware requirements. According to Datamonitor, Pocket PC 2003 devices may have built-in keyboards and portrait QVGA screens as small as 2.8 inches.
At this stage that hardly qualifies as innovative.
Until recently Microsoft had done an excellent job of […]
Hot New Sony Clie
17Jul03Sony has announced the Clie PEG-UX50 in Japan, due to be available on August 9th for about US$600. It is expected that Sony will make an announcement on US availability tomorrow. This is one hot little handheld: Palm OS 5.2, 300MHz Sony/ARM CPU, 16MB available RAM, 16MB “backup” RAM, 22MB “Media Storage”, Memory […]
The Samsung i500 Family
16Jul03Gizmodo has pointed to a Laptop Magazine review of the Samsung SPH-i500. This is a Palm OS 4.1 flip-phone with a hard Graffiti area above the keypad. It run on a 66Mhz DragonBall, has 16MB RAM, and will supposedly be available from Sprint PCS very soon for $400-$500.
The picture on the Gizmodo site is of […]
POPFile 0.18.3 and 0.19.1
16Jul03Yesterday brought us two new POPFile releases (announcement). The changes primarily deal with reliability for email downloads, but the announcement also mentions parser tweaks and the resulting temporary decrease in accuracy. This is why I’m still using 0.17.5 — I reclassify messages very infrequently, so I don’t want to upgrade the parser more often than […]
theKompany.rom
16Jul03theKompany has released a new ROM for the Zaurus SL-5000D and SL-5500 (Download page). They have made many changes and released several revisions over the past few days. What caught my attention is that they’ve removed Opera, Hancom, and Jeode from the core and are providing them as IPKs — useful to users of other […]
Trojan Wars
16Jul03Trojans aren’t just being used for spam delivery, the NY Times is reporting that pornographers are using trojans as distributed web server proxies [via Ars Technica]
At first I was surprised to learn that DDoS technology has been adapted for these shady business purposes, but the more I think about it, the more obvious this evolution […]
