Monthly Archives: May 2007

Take the spice out of spam

What follows in a recipe to extract the finest ham from spam. (note however, that the author no longer uses this recipe as published)
Ingredients

procmail
spamassassin
DreamHost Unix shell account
Gmail account

Summary
We’ll forward your public email address (public@mydomain.com) to your server shell account (shellaccount@sjov.dreamhost.com), where we’ll filter your mail through procmail and SpamAssassin, and depending on the results, forward [...]

Akkosa Sutta

As I’ve heard it, Akkosaka was pissed off because one of his relatives had joined the Buddha in the homeless life. He marched off to throw angry insults at the Buddha while the latter patiently listened.
When Akkosaka had finished cursing him, the Buddha asked, “tell me, brahman, do friends and family sometimes come for a [...]

India Charlie Alfa Oscar

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) alphabet (also known as the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet and incorrectly as the NATO phonetic alphabet), Morse Code, and Signal Flags.

Word
Morse
Signal Flag
Word
Morse

Alfa
. -

Zero
- - - - -

Bravo
- . . .

One
. - - - -

Charlie
- . - .

Two
. . - - -

Delta
- . .

Three
. . . - -

Echo
.

Four
. . . . [...]

Indent

Suppose
you are to read
a convoluted text
such as the one
in front of you now.

You might find it
easier to read
[...]

All Rights Reserved

Gentle readers,
In order to protect my exclusive copyright, I have encrypted my poem with an 8-bit RSA key (e:147, n:253) while tightly guarding the secret single decimal prime decryption key. I am selling non-transferable, single-use, limited-duration licenses to the key for a nominal fee.

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