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Read the Linux IPChains HowTo and now I feel primed to set up my server to only allow connections from work. The mail log shows various attempts to get in which make me feel paranoid. I will wait till I get lots of spam before I worry about a local spam filter.
I've been looking into RSS aggregators and I have installed peerkat. I chose it mainly because it is python and not a perl hack but:
I like the principle so I will investigate this further. I may bite the bullet and go twisted as it can do all this and more. What I don't like about twisted is:
it looks like a big hack
not worderful documentation
liable to change
event driven programming: state machines are a pain, give me threads and linear programming
Something else to investigate is changing my hosting to linuxed based:
The downside is that I cannot test ASP. The project that required that is not going anywhere.
I've cut down on my caffeine intake and I feel much more lively. Starbucks decaf latte is quite palatable.
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