Posted by Scott Hughes
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:13:00 GMT
RubyConf 2005 is underway and I’m hoping that the slides from the presentations will be available soon. I found that Kevin Clark is live-blogging RubyConf and is doing a pretty good job of it (Thanks, Kevin!).
His notes from the progress report on YARV: Yet Another Ruby VM are an especially interesting read. Maybe YARV will finally help answer the question, “Does RubyOnRails Scale?”
Thanks to Ezra Zygmuntowicz, you can start listening in on some presentations as well.
Update: Matz’s slides from his keynote speech on the future of Ruby are now available online. He talks about a lot of cool ideas that are going to keep Ruby 2.0 very fun. There’s even a video(198mb).
Posted in Code, Technology | Tags Code, ruby, rubyconf | no comments
Posted by Scott Hughes
Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:50:00 GMT
We had a conversation a couple of weekends ago about how you destroyed the beyond excellent tv series Firefly by not watching it. I had hoped that you learned your lesson and you were going to take this second chance you’ve been given. Unfortunately, it seems that on Serenity’s second weekend, more of you decided to see The Gospel than a movie about space cowboys. Are you completely out of your respective minds?!
To help sweeten the pot, Universal has now started offering a 9 minute free preview of the movie so you can better decide if it’s something you’d enjoy. That’s a really generous offer; don’t be ungrateful.
My personal review of the movie is that it is an excellent and fun film. I am too biased to say whether or not you have to be a fan of the show to enjoy the film, but I want to believe anyone can enjoy it. I did have a disagreement or two with the film… For example, that bad thing that happened that most are upset about. Not only was that a “shock” moment, but it’s an excellent example of bad fiction. I don’t go to the movies to see random maladies afflict good people for no good reason. If that’s your kind of thing, you can get plenty of it by watching documentary shows like Trauma: Life in the ER. It actually turns my stomach a little that the scene made it into the final cut. But, the fact that I feel so strongly about that scene, yet I still enjoyed the movie, should be a considered a good sign that the rest of the movie makes up for it in spades.
Now, hurry up and go watch it. If I don’t get my BDT (Big Damn Trilogy), I don’t know how I’ll ever forgive you… But I will most certainly repay you in kind.
Posted in Movies, Entertainment | Tags movies | no comments
Posted by Scott Hughes
Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:53:00 GMT
As much as I enjoy my gmail account, it’s starting to be rendered useless by Google’s refusal to include sender’s IP address in the message headers. I discovered this after an old student who I TA’ed at Georgia Tech tried to contact me using my primary pobox.com email address ([my first initial][my last name]@pobox.com). Luckily, she tried again using my gmail account and was successful in reaching me. I searched my pobox.com discard list and found her email, which was from her own gmail account. The headers added by pobox.com explain the reason:
X-Pobox-Antispam: dnsbl/bl.spamcop.net returned deny:
for 66.249.82.198(xproxy.gmail.com)
X-Sift-Reason: dnsbl/bl.spamcop.net returned deny:
for 66.249.82.198(xproxy.gmail.com)
Apparently, SpamCop’s list has changed in the past week (since this email was sent), because it appears SpamCop does not block xproxy.gmail.com anymore but does block qproxy.gmail.com. I don’t have an estimate on how many proxies gmail has and I didn’t check any others.
I found more information on the foo-projects blog, where they’ve heard back from SpamCop and SORBS about the blocking. Apparently, spammers are easily masking themselves behind gmails relays, so the spam police have no choice. The best solution is to complain to Google.
I use pobox.com’s standard settings for discarding junked emails, which (until now?) worked really well for me. It ends up blocking several hundred spam emails a day (this email address is 10 years old, from days when I posted it more promiscuously), and allowing about 10-15 false negatives through. I never have to check the discard list, because I have come to trust it to make zero false positives. That said, if you’ve emailed me recently from a gmail account and are unsure if I got it, I’d appreciate it if you re-sent it to me. I have temporarily set my spam settings to flag the message, instead of discarding it.
Hopefully Google and the Spam Po-Po can come to an agreement on this soon. But you should know that SpamCop is a highly regarded blocking list, so until this is resolved it is likely that I’m not the only one who isn’t receiving your gmails.
Posted in Technology | Tags gmail, spam | 4 comments
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