Davs Rants and Random Thoughts » rants http://blog.davglass.com Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:30:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Spam, spam, spam!!! http://blog.davglass.com/2006/08/spam-spam-spam/ http://blog.davglass.com/2006/08/spam-spam-spam/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:12:28 +0000 Dav Glass http://blog.davglass.com/2006/08/spam-spam-spam/ <rant>SpamMan, I hate spam. I have had my davglass.com email address for over 10 years now. I guess it’s nice to have it, but in that time the amount of spam I receive is unbelievable. Take a look at this picture, that’s alot of spam huh? That is a the amount of spam I get in a week and a half. Yes, I said 10 days. I have gotten over 3000 spam messages in 10 days. Let’s break that down:

  • 300 per day
  • 12.5 an hour
  • 0.208.. per minute
  • 9,000 per month (30 days)
  • 109,500 per year

Now, I have seen some of the messages. Most of the make absolutley no sense what-so-ever. So my question is:
Why are there so many idiots out there sending me 109,500 spam messages a year? Most of them don’t even contain simple messages. Example:

Islamic Legal IAEA Foreign World Khatami Views Epic Literary Art Radio TV Cultural Heritage Weblogs Sport Olym Cities

ampTech. WLDJ: Complete PDF Archives TOP LINKS YOU MUST CLICK NewsActel Based IDE ARM GNU Compiler By: DeskAug. AMDigg Actels CoreMP industrys arrays FPGAs. widely compiler debugger provides programs CoreMP. tool enables designers easily embedded based complete Platform IDP Libero free. Users download Together three tools customers Fusion System PSC ProASIC families. quotThe allow letting advantage knowledge Thompson manager marketing Actel. mature highly addition includes simulator Further supports memory drivers IDP. FlashPro memory. Initially

DEAL everyone launch.Am turned forever Nah however wait research

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source thatby macdethon concerned picture attached nothing plastic.

What the hell is the above supposed to mean?

  1. Is it a bad translation?
  2. Is it a virus that makes all normal text look like that?
  3. Is it simply a monkey slamming his ass off of a keyboard?

Personally I vote for number 3 !</rant>

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]]> http://blog.davglass.com/2006/04/code-monkey/feed/ 0 Finally Universal (mostly) http://blog.davglass.com/2006/04/finally-universal-mostly/ http://blog.davglass.com/2006/04/finally-universal-mostly/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0000 Dav Glass http://www2.davglass.com/?p=31 Finally, I have working copies of the last 3 of my “necessary” applications in a universal binary. I have been waiting for these 3 for a while. Still missing all of the Unsanity haxies to be ported, but that is a different story 8-). And of course there are the few other apps that I use, but not nearly as much as these.

The apps that I have been waiting on are:
Firefox 1.5.0.2
PSI Jabber Client
gVim

Now that I have all of them in a universal form, I can now open the Activity Monitor an bask in the glow of Intel listed under Kind.

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