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Seems like every blogger has released a Vista Top 10 list either for or against Vista. Just thought I’d follow suit while it was still trendy.

1. As a tech geek I’ll be learning it. It’s a must. Tech geeks must continue to learn new things…
2. There will eventually be a compelling feature that I will want, probably in the form of a bundle (Vista + X-Box 360?).
3. My job will eventually upgrade the site license to include Vista. I’ll probably be upgrading my company hardware shortly after that happens.
4. Friends will eventually be asking me for help on Vista.
5. In order to write my next top 10 article on Vista I need more dirt.
6. I miss OSX, and this is as close as I’m gonna get to it with my shitty Dells (RIP iBook).
7. My machines have been feeling a bit fast w/ XP.
8. My PC doesn’t feel crippled enough. I feel the need to buy the latest and greatest crippled hardware just so Vista will feel at home. . .
9. Most High Def content will require Vista, and I like High Def content, so I’ll need Vista.
10. Something has to hog my HD and ram …

A lot of my top 10 list is sarcastic, in the end I think Vista is just a rework of certain components. Moving things to make them different, not necessarily better or worse. Will I use it? Probably. Am I looking forward to it? No. In my opinion the Vista beta’s have shown me nothing more than an ugly UI on XP w/ a backseat driver added on for good measure (UAC).

A lot of people have been asking for greylisting in the QmailToaster. Although I do not plan to add ANY of greylisting packages to the QmailToaster release at this time, here is a simple one to add quicky to the QmailToaster.

http://thomas.mangin.me.uk/software/qmail-greylist.html

Install instructions are simple (modified for QmailToaster):
cd /var/qmail/bin ; wget http://thomas.mangin.me.uk/data/source/greyd ; chmod +x greyd ; mkdir /var/qmail/grey ; chown vpopmail.vchkpw /var/qmail/grey


Add ‘,GREY=”"‘ to the :allow statement at the bottom of /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp and run “service qmail cdb“.

Then change /var/qmail/supervise/smtp/run to look like this:

#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u vpopmail`
NOFILESGID=`id -g vpopmail`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
BLACKLIST=`cat /var/qmail/control/blacklists`
SMTPD="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd"
GREYD="/var/qmail/bin/greyd"
TCP_CDB="/etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp.cdb"
RBLSMTPD="/usr/bin/rblsmtpd"
HOSTNAME=`hostname`
VCHKPW="/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw"

exec /usr/bin/softlimit -m 12000000 \
     /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l $HOSTNAME -x $TCP_CDB -c "$MAXSMTPD" \
     -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp \
     $GREYD $RBLSMTPD $BLACKLIST $SMTPD $VCHKPW /bin/true 2>&1

I, aka kabewm, got a shout out on The Dog House today. Big Daddy Matt and Mr. Goodbar were on the air, and they gave me a shout out. Major props to Big Daddy Matt and Mr. Goodbar for getting to hang with The Dog House in studio. To show their devotion to the show they got naked in front of Rudy “The Junk Faced Goon” Fenook and Erika Strada (the new guest booker). That made for some hilarious radio. Too bad they got cut down to 3 hours.

Got some feedback about the libsrs2-toaster package on the main site and the qmail-toaster package on the devel site. Basically there was a minor fix for the libsrs2-toaster package, which has been re-released. This consisted of tweaking the spec file to put libs in /usr/lib64 on 64-bit machines. My mistake. Not having a dedicated 64-bit build host really screws me up from time to time, my apologies to any affected.

The qmail-toaster package on the devel site has SRS as a mandatory compile feature. This feature can be disabled at runtime by leaving the srs_domain option blank. The problem here appears to be gcc4 (and above) specific. I am working with Marcelo Coelho to fix this for the QmailToaster users. Hopefully we will be able to make this a “main” site release soon.

My howtoforge article is going to be fairly detailed, yet there will be a few changes from the main docs (Perl modules from rpmforge, BIND instead of djbdns). I am writing this the way I set up QmailToaster. This means a CentOS 4.x system running a Bind Caching Name Server with an IP Tables Firewall. In addition, I will be enabling SURBL, Blacklists, OpenProtect SA Rules, and SRS to assist with spam blocking. Instead of using cnt40-perl.sh, I will be installing the rpm’s from the rpmforge repository. Other than RPMForge/BIND, it’ll pretty much be the same as the current install docs. I am more than half done, so far, but I am waiting for the SRS enabled release to make it to the main site.

Today Arbitron released the ratings for NY, and things are looking good for The Dog House. Almost a 38% increase for my favorite radio show. This is a good sign, hopefully in time I will no longer have to listen to them through a live stream and be able to tune in my local Free FM affiliate.

Recently they have been mentioning The Dog House Forums. It appears as though activity on that site has grown big time. It’s good to see the forum growing as the radio mentions keep happening.

On another note, the ratings also showed a major O&A ratings drop. Now The Dog House isn’t competing with these guys, as O&A come on right before them. However O&A have been very obnoxious to JV & Elvis. O&A has previously blamed it’s bad ratings on The Dog House. It turns out, no one is to blame but themselves. It may even turn out that the 9 O’Clock hour is inflating their ratings. You see The Dog House has 1 hour of morning drive, which shows up on O&A’s ratings. Way to go Dogs!