Inside The Mind of C.W. » Computers

I Propose a New Internet Standard!

Someone — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:31:38 +0000

Spam, spam, more spam, ahh yes SPAM!!!
And no I am not the edible kind, I want to share my thoughts on the email kind. There seems to be so much into marketing about spam cleaners, filters, and any other product to help with that. Being in the industry I know and see where 97%+ of spam comes from, and no it is not generally not from actual mail servers. So where does most spam come from? Usually from the millions of people with infected computers that are controlled remotely by a hacker. That means poor old Grandma and Grandpa are probably contributing to the masses of spam emails.

New Standard Proposal:
Deny ALL email that does not come from an IP address with a reverse record that contains ^mail. or .mail. in the record.
Any email server that deals with email must have that in the reverse record.

Oh look this will block 97% of spam!!!!! and it stops the senders, it is NOT a filter. If you do not have a correct reverse PTR you are NOT sending mail.

Sure spammers will create “mail.” servers but that will be so much easier to block, especially when we don’t have to block the ma and pa’s of the world sending email from a dynamic IP address with no correct reverse PTR

Summary:
Why get more filters, when we can block from the source. Filters will be able to be more efficient, this will cause less server loads having to process 10,000 emails per hour instead of 100,000

Bloons Tower Defense 4

Someone — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:52:28 +0000

OK, the latest game, from a wonderful creator, is packed with new towers a new BIG Bloon and new upgrades to an existing great game. After many days of playing and never giving much thought but the trick is to get multiple banana farms going. I was playing this on “easy”, but I will test out on “hard” after it finishes this game, being this high level lags out this computer anyways. After level 90 i actually sold banana farms because of the excess $$ with nothing to spend it on hardly.

WordPress and all its splendors

Someone — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:22:58 +0000

I unfortunately have not kept up with wordpress’s releases and of course had my wordpress hacked, as well as another customer. I don’t blog enough to notice when there is an update. However it seems this 2.8 version seems much better, and has even given me an easy way to create widgets which is what this post is going to test. I have rewritten and modified a plugin called WordPress Email Notification V2.3.1 by Brian Groce, his version has a flaw when you do not use a table prefix. I have also created a wp-email-form widget to handle the email future send and signup form. This will alleviate people having to “change” their theme. I also added a function test for email_notification_future_send which is a pain if you do NOT have that plugin activated.

Ubuntu 9.04 The VPN Connection failed because there were no valid secrets

Someone — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:54:56 +0000

After stressing on my laptop for an hour, then the next day wondering whats happening with this new install of Ubuntu and the addition of VPNC, well what solved the problem for me was to actually restart the system, why didn’t I try that before? I have never restarted “Linux” unless I had to before. After rebooting the errors disappeared and the VPN worked. Yes after all that pondering on the problem, a simple restart after the installation of VPNC solved the “no valid secrets” problem. I hope this bit of information helps someone out there that has come across this.

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