There's no Place Like ::1

On Friday, 28th September, I will be back to Braga to see some friends and defend my project that will give me the degree on Computer Science and Systems Engineering.

BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGG DAY

In my quest to the perfect SMTP server for my home network, I found the next big weapon against spammers: greylisting. You can read the description on Wikipedia so I’m not extend myself here.

The technical part, if you use Postfix, is that there is a package called postgrey (apt-get install postgrey) that integrates easily with Postfix to give you a truly greylisting experience. :)

This is one of the best stories so far on this year. Slashdot has a story talking about an Excel 2007 multiplication bug. The funny part is that I ran to my brothers’ PC to try the bug, and it worked!! AHAHAHAHHAH

I loved the following comment on slashdot:

It is nice to see that since this is a free and open standard that the bug has been identified quickly and fixed. Oh wait, it isn’t and the bug is still at large. Sorry, jumped the gun there due to the speed at which the Open Source community usually fixes issues like this. Maybe ISO should take note.

Yesterday I upgraded my Movable Type installation to version 4.01. They say that it corrects some security bugs, and turns the backend 1000x faster. Well so far, I didn’t notice any great speedup..

It seems that it corrected some bugs on a friends’ blog.

I am really really really proud of having my first article published on a Springer Lecture Note on Computer Science. At the same time, it made me enter the DBLP database.

Makefile::Parallel is an excellent tool, and it gave me en opportunity to write a great article.

Thank you Alberto Simões and José João for this chance :)

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/europar/SimoesFA07,
  author    = {Alberto Sim{\~o}es and
               R{\'u}ben Fonseca and
               Jos{\'e} Jo{\~a}o Almeida},
  title     = {Makefile: : Parallel Dependency Specification Language},
  booktitle = {Euro-Par},
  year      = {2007},
  pages     = {33-41},
  ee        = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74466-5_5},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/europar/2007},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/europar/2007,
  editor    = {Anne-Marie Kermarrec and
               Luc Boug{\'e} and
               Thierry Priol},
  title     = {Euro-Par 2007, Parallel Processing, 13th International Euro-Par
               Conference, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {Euro-Par},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {4641},
  year      = {2007},
  isbn      = {978-3-540-74465-8},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}