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Why do I walk? Why do I care? Let me tell  you nothing in life is greater then the birth of a child. When that time comes and that child is placed in NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) and the doctors are not sure what is wrong with your child. It turns that great wonderful time into some of the hardest times of your life. So now do this x2 since I had not one but two children born at the same time. Yes Twins.

 

They where born three weeks early. Not a big deal in twin births, but Isabella had fluid in her lungs and Kaitlyn had swelling and bruising on her head. The doctors thought they both had pneumonia and no one knew what wrong with Kaitlyn.

 

They spent 5 days in the NICU during this time Isabella's lungs cleared up and they discovered that Kaitlyn had an abscessed and infected tear duct. This was taken care of with surgery when she was 6 days old.

 

While none of this is horrid like many parents stories I have heard and known about. Being told anything is wrong with your child at any time is tough. This is why I walk, this is why I support the March of Dimes.

 

I have personally seen what they do and have done, and to be honest who wouldn't want to help a baby. Unless you hate Babies omgz~

So while you can sponsor or support my walk by clicking here. Support them any way you can. Because every baby deserves someone in their corner. The March of Dimes is there for all babies!

 

Today they are both great or so we are told! They along with the rest of my family will be Walking this year for the March for Babies!

This is an aggregator for Birmingham Alabama Twitter users. With this you can keep up with what others in Birmingham are doing. You can also see all the other Birmingham Area Twitter out there. Think of it as a stream of consciousness.

Birmingham Pulse

I must give props to Justin Mason and Venus. I have used Justin's implementation.

How to use it:

Add yourself: if you’re a Twitter user in the ham, follow bhampulse. This will add you to the sources list.

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Read it: bookmark and take a look now and again!

 

So I am not going to keep saying, oh I should have posted. I'm going to write about this and that. I keep doing it and I keep having issues come up. Two weeks ago I worked 80+ hours at work. Then last week I was home sick with pneumonia with the doctor threatening to put me in the hospital. I slept alot and when I wasn't sleeping I just didn't feel like doing anything. Much less look at a computer. 

This week i'm programing. Let me just state "I am NOT a programmer". We have programmers we just don't have enough. Now don't get me wrong I'm not a moron. I know enough about PHP/Perl/Shell Scripting. I just don't claim it as my job. So I am writing some PHP stuff to pull from a database, give logins, and give some users the ability to edit the database. I am having fun with it, writing the main page to display the table in a nice straight table. Then all the things you can do from searching, editing, to just viewing in a modalbox. So you have a single page with a table and modalboxes popping up all over the place when you click to do a function. 

Last week I installed a ProFTPD Server. I know I said I was sick, but that don't stop work. So this server is run over SSL and has a web interface to control it. So I found a ProFTP Admin and modified it a ton to get the function out of it I need for a client. I added the ability to create the home dir and directories under it automatic. I made the group settings more of "group" setting by making it actually give the groups something, a shared directory.

Well thats it for now, I will try to post aga... never mind.

Testing new phone, got a new T-Mobile Wing and I love it. Thats my cat there... one of the two that is.

PC World - Linux Communications Suite Enters Beta

I can speak from experience here. We tried an alternative to Exchange. We searched and searched, we tried several and finally we found the one we thought would be it. We deployed it to several clients and all hell broke loose. First every couple of days there was an update. This required us to go on site and install and addon to outlook. Then the server would not work or would randomly disconnect. We purchased support from this company only to get the run around, another patch, or no answer at all. At one time Adobe wouldn't work inside of outlook for a client that had the "addon" installed. No response, for 9 months. Then they got sold...

We are now selling hosted exchange, and I can say it works exactly how I would have expected. More important there is support and the clients are familiar with it.

Vista, and Mac support still not available in the other.

For some reason this just got me. I have two cats "in the human ownership type of world" and while I am not sure if they can read. I think its more that they don't care!

Cats Can’t Read !!!! | Bad-Control

 

So here's my idea. I'm sure others or someone has done it or something close. What I'm thinking is using Spamassassin when something scores over 50 go ahead and take the IP of the sending server and pass it to a database.  Then use this database to update a local DNSBL. This would be a cron job that would pull the database and create the records. I would also put a "expire" time that it would expire the entry. Then use the DNSBL at the front end of the smtp connection and block connections based on this. This can easily be done with qmail and postfix.

Would want to block with a url pointing the user to a way of requesting a removal of the block and information on the block. Also have a web front end so someone could make a block either permanent, whitelist, or remove it.

Why a score of 50+ on spamassassin, thats easy. Currently my 10 systems that are scanning if they score over 25 I am 100% sure it is spam. So just to be truly safe at 50 no doubt about it.

With 10 systems scanning 100's of thousands of messages a day this would take a large amount of load and processing time from the spam scanning servers.