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Weblog: November 2005
Wednesday, November 30 2005SpamAssassin auto-whitelistHmm - this explains why add-addr-to-whitelist hasn't been working so well for me in SpamAssassin. Docs at the website say: "Technically, you can use spamassassin --add-addr-to-whitelist, but don't. The AutoWhitelist is designed as a score averaging system, not as a whitelisting system. If you want to manually whitelist, you should use the directions from the previous section." Previous section: "To manually whitelist a particular address... edit your local user prefs file ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs" Should make email life easier... Tuesday, November 15 2005CEOs on telecom serviceSBC CEO Edward E. Whitacre Jr. seems to think it's not enough for consumers to pay him for Internet access - the people we connect to should pay too: "They don't have any fiber out there. They don't have any wires. They don't have anything... They use my lines for free -- and that's bull. For a Google (GOOG ) or a Yahoo! (YHOO ) or a Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes for free is nuts!" Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg on the unreasonable demands of customers who want their cell phones to work at home, and who want localized maps of where service isn't available: "Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house? The customer has come to expect so much. They want it to work in the elevator; they want it to work in the basement." Wednesday, November 9 2005Handguns Banned in San Francisco. Wow.Wow - Proposition H, banning the purchase or ownership of handguns in the city of San Francisco, has passed. Monday, October 31 2005"September" Charity of the MonthProject Open Hand, providing meals and nutrition services to the ill who need them most in San Francisco. Consider giving... Halloween in the CastroOnce again, around the end of October, I'm getting a lot of hits on my Halloween in the Castro pictures. Most people are hitting the 2003 pics; hopefully they won't miss the 2004 ones.
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About this siteThis is the personal web site for Edward (Ed) Piou. Consisting mainly of a blog (operational since 1999) and various photos. Some online projects I'm working oneppi.com : my one-man web development corp. (I'm for hire)voteprotect.org : I'm helping build the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS), and we could really use some volunteer sysadmins and PHP programmers interested in safeguarding democracy... PoliticsTalking Points MemoDaily Kos MoveOn Contact your elected officials Charity, Non-profits...A while ago, I decided to put my money where my mind is on a (roughly) monthly basis and give to: 9/2005: Project Open Hand 8/2005: ACORN 7/2005: KPFA 6/2005: KALW 5/2005: EFF 4/2005: OxFam America 3/2005: ACLU 2/2005: Free the Slaves 1/2005: San Francisco Food Bank 12/2004: Amnesty International 11/2004: FreeBSD Foundation 10/2004: Union of Concerned Scientists 9/2004: Project Open Hand 8/2004: VerifiedVoting.org 7/2004: KPFA radio 6/2004: KALW radio 5/2004: John Kerry for President 4/2004: OxFam America 3/2004: ACLU 2/2004: Electronic Frontier Foundation 1/2004: Amnesty International 12/2003: Alternet/TomPaine.com 11/2003: San Francisco Food Bank 10/2003: MoveOn.org 9/2003: Free the Slaves 8/2003: KPFA radio 7/2003: Union of Concerned Scientists 6/2003: Project Open Hand 5/2003: UNICEF 4/2003: OxFam America 3/2003: ACLU 2/2003: Electronic Frontier Foundation 1/2003: Common Cause PhotosPublic events documented through pictures... 1. Jan. 18, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest 2. Feb. 16, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest 3. March 15, 2003 San Francisco anti-war protest 4. Power to the Peaceful Festival, Spearhead's free 2003 concert in Golden Gate Park 5. Oct. 25, 2003 San Francisco bring-the-troops-home rally 6. Halloween in the Castro, 2003 7. Love Parade San Francisco, October 2004 8. Folsom Street Fair 2004 9. Power to the Peaceful 2004 10. Halloween in the Castro, 2004 11. Illusion 3 at the MCCLA 12. Burning Man 2005 13. Halloween in the Castro, 2005 |