Trying to sell my Dell 1905FP and Samsung 940BW. If you're interested, let me know and I'll give you the blog reader discount :) Update: Sold. Craigslist rocks.

Ever want to verify an installed Debian package against the original md5sums, ala rpm -V? In Debian, use debsums(1).

Hope all my fellow sysadmins out there are having a good day.

So while flipping through the latest SysAdmin magazine there was a note that this would be the last issue and it was ceasing publication. Very sad - the only magazine I find worth subscribing to bites the dust. I will miss it.

I hate spam. Last month, (March 2004) I got 15,852 spam and virus-related messages. That's about 511 per day.

So, I upped the ante in the war on spam today, making my filters much more aggressive and just outright /dev/null'ing a ton of stuff (Virus notifications from stupid products like Symantec AV, anyone?). SpamAssassin does a pretty good job, but even sifting through it quickly by tagging it in mutt takes a long time.

I hope Hell has a special place for spammers and their ilk.

It's funny, I have a computer that's pretty nice and all, but my favorite games are still the old ones from my childhood. A few of my favorites...

Since my old computer was being so flaky lately, I ordered a (mostly) new one from Monarch Computer.