Any spamassassin whiz kids in the house?
I have a couple of email address that forward into my main email account. One of these address makes up about 90% of the spam that gets through to my inbox. Is there a way to make spam assassin score one To: email address a bit more aggressively than another?
How could I forget THE REALLY BIG BUTTON THAT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING?
How could I forget THE REALLY BIG BUTTON THAT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING?
Buttons that do not do anything
Am I missing any?
The way to tour
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The subliminators bike
Went to BarCampRDUthis Saturday. It went pretty well for an “unconference”.
Some good talks were seen, and Greg presented some of our ideas in the “Destroy The Music Industry” talk. It seemed to have been well accepted.
Talked to some of the folks from Raleighing and mugshot. The place seemed to be filled with ibiblio and lulu folks as well.
I skipped the ever present agile/extreme talks. For some reason it seems like every time I go to one of those talks it is someone trying to sell a book. I always get a very snake oil vibe that consistently turns me off from the concept.
The “wetware” talk was pretty good, though it hit upon alot of well tread territory (a touch of GTD, mindmaps, personal wiki’s, etc).
The “Future Of Social Browsing” talk was interesting. It was mostly centered around claimid, flock, and mugshot. I like the general idea of openid/claimid alot, but some of the ideas associated with it seem a bit useless (XFN, etc) and seemed to focus mostly on ways geeks can keep up with other geeks.
The “Future of Publishing” talk was pretty lame. More of a sales pitch for a computer book publisher than any real insight. Maybe 10 minutes into the future of publishing, instead of 10 years into the future I was hoping for.
But for a free “unconference”, it was quite interesting. Mostly because of the people there. Which is of course, more or less the point.
Anyone happen to have a cell phone/plan with high speed data access that happens to work with linux (preferably Fedora) and OSX? If so, details?
Anyone have recommendations on a good laptop sleeve for a smallish (~12 inch) laptop?
I’ve decided I need a logo. An Adrian Likins logo.
What that logo shall be is to be determined.
Once I have a logo, then I can start work on The Brand.
I spent a good chunk of this week helping teach a class on music and audio production for Red Hat High, a week long camp for rising 9th graders.
I was very nervous before the class started, as I assume we were under prepared and the students would have trouble with the tools. But that was not the case at all. A few minutes of instructions to get the basic, and they were off running.
The first day or two were mainly getting the students introduced to the tools (Audacity and Hydrogen).
Then after that, we were onto the projects. One of the parts of the camps was that the students are to present what they did over the week tomorrow to all their peers (and parents?). So each student was to prepare 2minutes of audio for the project. They could do pretty much whatever they wanted to. Some wrote pretty sophisticated song patterns in hydrogen, and overdub vocals or freely licensed loops with audacity. Some folks did interviews, or “talk shows”. Pretty high quality output for a week of only a few hours a day (9am-noon everyday).
It was interesting discussing some of the various issues related to copyright and reuse of music with the students, who generally don’t really have to think too much about this.
Spent a few hours today doing a collage/mix/remix of the students work for the presentation tomorrow. I think I managed to learn more than a few things about the tools this week.
We had a pretty good student/teacher ratio (15 students, and typically three teachers [myself, Greg DeKoenigsberg, and a few other folks]). But one things for sure, teach a class of 9th graders will wear you out.