Weekly spam summary on September 17th, 2005

It's Saturday evening again, so it's time for the weekly spam roundup.

This week we received 12,500 email messages from 221 different IPaddresses. This is about a typical email volume (perhaps a bit down)and a typical number of distinct IP addresses that we accept emailfrom. (Most of the traffic comes from a few mailing lists and thecampus email system.)

Our SMTP server handled 49,600 actual sessions from 5,20


滑的警愓

鄙人日前寫了賀迪士尼開幕的文章,以一貫的嬉皮笑臉方式為大家逗逗趣。另一邊廂, 熊一豆 在她的blog上為迪士尼與家長辯難——那些艱難、平實的字句,吐氣開聲,講一些根本十分十分容易理解但不知為何某些人總是楚河漢界

Demon Internet joins the webmail hall of shame

Selected headers of a just-received advance fee fraud spam:

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我愛奇諾奧 – 由機械殼回到人殼

hinokio

我愛奇諾奧 Hinokio 》 講是一個自閉小子靠著機械人 Hinokio 打開心窗的故事。雖然有機械人,但故事並不科幻,也沒有什麼 A.I. 的探討,而是充滿人情味的故事。

故事主角岩本在一次交通意外中痛失母親,然後就封閉了自己起來。父


Getting a list of all objects in Python

One of the most 'interesting' issues in most garbage collectedlanguages is memory usage analysis: figuring out why your program isusing so much memory, and where. Often this winds up enmeshed intricky issues of object lifetime, retained references, and so on.

One of the first steps in this sort of work is simply figuring outwhat live objects you have in memory and what they are. Jonathan Ellis recently ran into this issue and wound up asking an interesting question: how do you get a list ofall


Web browsers make bad text editors

As editors web browsers have all sorts of problems, such as a narrowview of the text (squeezed into a small to tiny text box), only (very)basic editing operations, and a severe lack of features. Some of thefeatures can be somewhat fixed up by the website, like spellcheckingand saving drafts in progress, but even then they tend to be awkward.(You can read one person's grumbles about the problem in the contextof blogging here .)

This makes it puzzling that more


Efficiently distributing huge files to lots of workstations

CQUEST 's workstations have a pieceof software that needs a read only 5+ gigabyte set of datafiles. Naturally we put the dataset on the local workstation disks,which works great. (These days it's hard to buy machines with lessthan 40 gigabyte disks, which leaves about 30 gigabytes free even witha generous Linux installation. We don't put user data on workstationsfor all the obvious reasons.)

However, every so often the dataset changes and we need to propagateall 5


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Google 推出 Blog Search 功能

gbs

Google 推出了新的 Blog Search 功能,大家可以直接在各大 Blogosphere 裏找資料了。有龐大的 Google 後盾,這個 Blog Search 的速度比起 Technorati 更快反應,而且其 Search Result 也有 RSS /Atom 的導出功能,大家可以在 RSS Reader 訂閱自己有興趣 Keywords 又或者用 link:url 去看對外連結。

不過,以自