Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Work in progress – UPDATED

    Updated 27 Feb 2005: Grrr…I got the two Shuttle boxes (SV24 and SV25), only to discover that both have blown motherboards and power supplies. I’m working on the means to get them in usable order, but it’s going to take some fundage that I don’t currently have….can anyone help? UPDATED 12 FEB 2005: I know…

  • Automotive Rant

  • Belated updates….

    First, we moved out of our apartment of three years into a house. A week and a half later, I had sinus surgery to remove a polyp that was blocking my left maxillary sinus and almost completely restricting airflow. Saturday morning, was was awakened by a phone call from Terri…she was involved in a one-car…

  • SpywareInfo Helper

    SpywareInfo.Com’s Support Forums! This means that they think I known enough to not endanger anyone when it comes to cleaning malware off computers. If you need assistance with your computer, you are more than welcome to visit SWI. The volunteer helpers there certainly do their best to help you. I’ve also been accepted for membership…

  • 80’s Style

  • Creating a Mail Gateway for Microsoft Exchange

    Setting Up a Spam-Filtering Mail Gateway For Microsoft Exchange Using Fedora Core 1, Postfix 2.0.19, Amavisd-New and Razor2 If you find this document useful, or have any additions or corrections, please send a message to the Webmaster. Document Conventions Configuration filename–link to example file Command prompt Command typed by user Comments Input to text editor…

  • $100 a plate?

    Ed. Note: this is in regards to a celebration for the 100th Anniversary of St. Mary’s Catholic Center, the Catholic Campus Ministry for Texas A&M University. From a letter to the St. Mary’s Development Office. Why did the planning committee for the 100 year anniversary of Catholic ministry to Texas A&M decide to place such…

  • Yahoo Protocol changes – business, bluster or bull?

    Gaim chat client, so AOL, ICQ and Yahoo are in one easy-to-use, and free, program). Yahoo pulled a nice stunt on Thursday, changing the chat protocol so that “that spammers will be blocked from abusing our system to spam our users”. Unfortunately, they failed to take into account that spammers will always find a way.…

  • A-Kon 2004 pictures

  • Anti-Virus and Spyware Resources

    Cleaning up Spyware and Viruses First, gather the proper tools: McAfee Associates’ Stinger Anti-Virus scanner Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware PepiMK’s Spybot Search & Destroy Merijn’s (SpywareInfo.com) Hijack This and CWShredder (note that CWShredder was sold to InterMute, which has now been bought by Trend Micro.) DefinitiveSolutions.Com’sBHODemon Mike Lin’s Startup Control Panel (This really should have come with…

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