Monthly Archives: February 2007

ESR gives up on Fedora, moves to Ubuntu

23-Feb-2007 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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The title says it all. ESR has given up on Fedora and moved to Ubuntu. Thanks to BarraPunto.

apt & Translation-en_AU

22-Feb-2007 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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On Ubuntu Edgy I notice that when I do an ‘apt-get update’ I get
messages like this:

 Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg 191B
 Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_AU
 ^^^                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Solution is to unset language before doing updates: 

 $ unset LANG LANGUAGE
 $ sudo apt-get update

Thanks to Michael Fox, SLUG list, 13 Jan 07.

beat image spam with procmail

03-Feb-2007 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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I blogged a while ago about using FuzzyOcr for detecting image spam. My FuzzyOcr isn’t working and at the moment I haven’t got time to fix it, so I wrote a procmail recipe to solve the problem instead:


# test if body contains gif, html, etc, and get procmail score
:0 Bc
* 3.5^0 Content-Type: image/gif
* 2^0 Content-Type: text/html
/dev/null
SCORE_PM=$=

# pull out SA score and required; if 2 scores > SA req'd, ISGT = 1 (true)
SCORE_SA=`formail -c -xX-Spam-Status: | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F= '{print $2}'`
REQD_SA=`formail -c -xX-Spam-Status: | awk '{print $3}' | awk -F= '{print $2}'`
ISGT=`echo "${SCORE_SA} + ${SCORE_PM} > ${REQD_SA}" | bc -l`

# test if ISGT = 1, if so, spam prob
:0 :
* ISGT ?? ^^1^^
.y_spam_probable/