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Russ
Hi, thanks for visiting! Aside from the silly picture, I present for your reading pleasure a small handful of open source utilities I wrote, and some info on various spam countermeasures I use.
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For more incomprehensible geeky gubbins, you can get my GPG key.
Much more interesting things to look at
Random resources I like/find useful/think you might like, in no particular order.
- My photos on Panoramio: Some photos I took. Also on Google Earth (KML) or on a map.
- ioko: I work here, as Senior Engineer on the Channel 4 web infrastructure.
- Mozilla.org: Open-source, standards-compliant web browser and mail reader. Don't use Microsoft's inferior and insecure browser. No, really, please don't.
- SpamCop: Paste/send your spam here (see my SpamCop reporter script) to automatically generate complaints to the spammer's ISP, open relay administrators, etc. Also offers (pay-for) spam filtered e-mail accounts.
- Project Honey Pot: Fight back against spammers - poison their lists, and collect evidence for prosecutions.
- The Fedora Project: The Linux distro I use at home. Useful additional sources of packages (yum repositories):
- Dries RPM Repository
- Freshrpms
- Les RPM de Remi (including Thunderbird+Enigmail for Fedora)
- city-fan.org
- ATrpms (I suggest you only install packages from ATrpms you can't get elsewhere, as it tends to clutter up your system with extra versions of libraries and this caused problems when upgrading to a newer version of Fedora)
- CentOS Linux: The Linux distro I use at work - a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, great for businesses which have a resident techie or two and don't need the support that comes with RHEL. Another useful yum repo: Dag Wieërs (supports RHEL 2.1-4 and FC 1-3).
- The Register: Excellent source of IT-related news.
- The Jargon File: How to understand hackers (no, not crackers). See also The Hacker FAQ.
- Vmyths.com: Read this before you forward any virus warnings to anyone. If you still feel inclined to forward the mail, read it again. Repeat until the urge goes away.