Gtalk Highlight Notification for XChat

Posted on 22 February 2010 by Nik

I’m a moderator (admin? op?) on a very small IRC room. I always have at least one client running somewhere, usually on my Linux computer. Naturally I use XChat. Invariably someone will attempt to contact me via IRC when I’m not around, so I whipped together a quick little XChat plugin script that’ll send myself a Google Talk message when someone writes a highlighted phrase, such as my nickname. If I’m not busy, I can then pop on and see what they wanted. Hopefully it won’t be too annoying, I can always just turn it off (I know at least one of you reads this. I will most definitely ban you if you bother me at the wrong time ;) ).

Anyway, click the “read the rest of this entry” link for the script if you want to look at it.

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Mailcleaner SpamAssassin 2010 Bug

Posted on 5 January 2010 by Nik

SpamAssassin was reported to have a date-related bug in it, you can find more info here. This post will detail the way you can fix the bug if you happen to be running mailcleaner. I haven’t tested it fully, and don’t know how permanent it’ll be, but hopefully it’ll be of some use.

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Mailcleaner Update Fix

Posted on 15 December 2009 by Nik

One of the places at which I do IT work runs a Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server for their email. They’d be having spam issues for quite some time, but were mostly resigned to turning on junkmail filtering, adding custom rulesets, and creating white and blacklists. Sometimes mails would go missing, but with the filter spaghetti, it was hard to tell where or why. MS, of course introduced IMF, but that was basically the equivalent of trying to stop a rushing river with a paper plate.

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ICH9R RAID with Windows 7 or Vista

Posted on 20 June 2009 by Nik

This problem starts with the beta release of Windows 7. I was using XP, going along fine, but figured 7 looked great, and hey why not give it a try. Little did I know the huge headache this would cause me. Twice.

So, let’s start with specs related to this problem, for those of you who are looking for help for similar problems:

Abit IP35 Motherboard
ICH9R SATA controller
Western Digital Raptor Drives x2

Now, this may help people with a various range of equipment. I think it applies to a good portion of the Intel ICH series SATA controllers, and I bet it’s not just limited to my motherboard or hard drives. Leave a comment if it this helps you, so other people searching can find the answer as well. Read on for more information.

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