Spamassassin FH_DATE_PAST_20XX test buggy in 2010

It seems there is an issue with the Spamassassin FH_DATE_PAST_20XX test. This test checks whether the email has a date in the future and, if this is the case, raises the message’s score. Apparently, this test is falsely triggered by all emails that have been sent in 2010, producing several false positives.

Due to a bug in the Spamassassin ruleset a lot of messages fail the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX check 'cause they are sent in 2010(!).
The resolution is quite handy: just run sa-update.

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5 Scary Things That Facebook Knows About You

Amidst the privacy policy debacle that Facebook is facing, another tip off from one of their employee is definitely not helping their current situation. An interview with an anonymous Facebook employee conducted on blogsite The Rumpus confirms that Facebook knows your every move. They know who you are stalking and when you do it; this information is stored permanently.

The full interview can be found here, and not all the information are new but there are a few shocking statements included.

Just a short reminder.

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Soon to come: Symfony definitive guide for 1.3 and 1.4

Hi all,

I'm listening... but I needed some time to think about the topic a bit
more before answering. Here are my thoughts(…)

Looks like Fabien is definitely one of those guys with 48 hours / day.
No matter how he manages his time, this step looks really promising.

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Run Effective, Google-Style Meetings by Focusing on Data, Not Politics - Productivity - Lifehacker

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Exclude .svn subdirectories in your grep search

Just a little reminder for myself: In 93 of 95 cases i want to exclude all of the .svn subdirectories lying around in my working copy.
Andreas brought that one to my mind again with a nasty forest of grep pipes. ;-)

 grep -R --exclude \*.svn\* your_pattern

gives me only the output I really need.

Update (2:42pm):

Gosh. After @denderello got nudged about my last blog post I gave http://betterthangrep.com/ a try.
It came via macports and I'm already loving it's colorful output and the per-file groups. Neato.

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Apaches little helpers

I installed my mamp stack via macports, so the normal GUI-tools of Mac OS won't let me toggle any services. Coming from the Linux / init world thats my bumbling approach to have a quick startup-script for Apache and MySQL:

 #!/bin/bash
 if [ "$1" == "start" ];
 then  /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start&
 /opt/local/bin/mysqld_safe5&
 else
 /opt/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop
 /opt/local/bin/mysqladmin5 -u root shutdown
 fi  

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Thank you, Rails

This is all pretty understandable: it’s easy to define community in terms of what we’re not. A common enemy focuses and drives us. Competition can take a positive form: when it’s friendly and constructive both communities benefit.

Lately, though, I’ve noticed the tone of the arguments in the Django community getting nastier — especially when it comes to Rails. Again, I’m far from innocent in this regard: I’ve certainly done my fair share of Rails-bashing, and I regret it.

Neat article - seeing Rails from a Django persons view.

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Hello, Posterous.

Though there's a permanent need to post tech stuff to my primary blog at http://blog.bascht.com, I wanted to keep that place more like a personal weblog, e.g. clean. So what you're seeing here, is the workaround for that: It's the Tech-Blog of Bascht

This is the place where I want to post code snippets, rants and beautiful findings around the world of Symfony, Doctrine and other fancy stuff.

And, beware: It's got syntax highlighting!

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 if __name__ == "__main__":
   print "Hi Posterous!" 

 

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