I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Fecthing mails ala’ Fetchmail style under Windows (preferably for free…)
If you are given the task to replicate a fetchmail system on a Windows machine, and you cannot rely on cygwin or Vmware, you are probably in a pinch. The situation is similar to this one: you got a fixed space e-mail box that has to be polled often, and gets filled fast. You have … Leggi tutto
Windows, Snort and Barnyard
When installing Snort on Windows […], the requirements include Winpcap and Barnyard. Unfortunately Barnyard for Windows is not that easy to find: as you can read here, you can find a packaged Barnyard for Windows at http://codecraftconsultants.com/Barnyard/, including source. It may be useful, although not ready for production deployement. Update [12-june-09] Other interesting Snort over Windows resources: Sans.org -Securing … Leggi tutto
Nokia E-series memory card password?
I recently upgraded my Nokia E-XX Software revision, and was told two times to check for a memory card password. I clearly remember I didn’t set any, so I just went on with the upgrade. Everything went fine until the phone rebooted and asked me for the memory card password. I didn’t set any, so … Leggi tutto
Canon jx-200 auto print off
Just a quick tip if you stumble upon a Canon jx-200 Fax complaining ‘automatic printing is off’ or ‘auto print off’ or similar message… This seemingly undocumented feature (I couldn’t find it in the user manual…) can be toogled on/of pressing once briefly the power on button (in constrast, you press it longer to turn … Leggi tutto
Recovering partition table with Testdisk
Testdisk is a very powerful tool for partition table recovery (and more). From the authors of Photorec, it’s a powerful recovery suite, capable of recovering your partition table from scratch. I lost mine in a late night mishap, and I tried to recover it using Testdisk. It worked flawlessy. I owe them a 25$ beer … Leggi tutto
evolution bogofilter on ubuntu
Just discovered that until you feed bogofilter at least one good e-mail manually the spam detection does not work…
Earthquake, originally uploaded by mirkosim.
Earthquake, originally uploaded by mirkosim.
al*?alia
cara al??alia, va bene perdere tre ore della mia vita. Ok affamarmi con un bonus snack. Va bene mandare all’aria il week end. Va bene ospitarmi una notte in albergo. Ma mettermi in un pulman di palermitani incazzati come bestie è sofisticata tortura.