Archive for February, 2008

can’t sa-update after a recent SpamAssassin upgrade?

I got bitten by this bug after upgrading to SpamAssassin 3.2.4 recently. It seems that the GnuPG key shipped with SA precludes the verification of signatures from updates downloaded using sa-update, due to some esoteric defect with the OpenPGP design. Anyway, the point is that attempting to download new signatures using sa-update results in the [...]

this is where I pretend to be a CBC Radio News host

I’ve been on training the past 2 days at an internal CBC course called “CBC Radio 101″ – it’s intended for those people who need to support CBC Radio staff in their daily jobs, so that we can get a better idea of their day-to-day workflow and process. It was a really interesting course and [...]

faxing over IP networks: there must be a better way!

Faxing over IP networks does not work reliably. There are many technical reasons why; I won’t go into them here. This page provides a pretty detailed explanation about why trying to transmit analog modem signals over an IP network will not work — variable jitter, insufficient bandwidth, silence suppression and many other factors in VoIP [...]

AutoRun in Windows considered harmful

Recently I started taking a basic course in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) at George Brown College – mostly for interest’s sake, although it’s partly because my day job at CBC is exposing me more and more to the engineering side of things, and I imagine it’ll only be a matter of time before I’ll have to [...]

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