Archive for December, 2008

Someone used my email address to send spam!

Monday, December 29th, 2008

This is a common situation these days.  Malicious code has been developed to allow spammers to distribute their junk mail a variety of ways.
In the old days, we’d tell people just to be careful about posting their email addresses on web sites or newsgroups. Today, all it takes is an infected machine on which your [...]

Did forcefsck leave you with a read-only filesystem?

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Did you have some drive problems on your linux system and want to run fsck at boot time only to find that your system stays in eternal fsck-reboot mode?  When you try to remove the forcefsck file in single user mode, you discover that you can’t because the filesystem is in read-only mode?
Here’s what worked [...]

Why I’ll never send confidential email to anyone at AOL

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

AOL has something they call an Email Feedback Report. ISPs can register with AOL so they’ll be notified any time an email message is reported as spam. Unfortunately for the sender, the entire contents of the message are left intact for the ISP to review. The Email Feedback Report protects the identity of [...]

Luchador Shiraz at the Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Get your bottle of Luchador Shiraz at the Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines



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