Ouch! Firefox 3 Doesn't Work With Gmail
Posted 5:56 PM

Despite some who claim otherwise, the new Firefox 3 just doesn't work "as well" with Gmail as Firefox 2. I get Gmail errors over and over, "Oops there's been an error... retrying". My solution so far is just to use IE for Gmail (works fine) until it's fixed, because it's not trivial to have Firefox 2 and 3 installed on the same machine.

(Turns out this is only true on my Vista machine, not my XP box)

(OK, I fixed it. How? I turned off all my addons, and then...oddly, i turned them all back on again. This helped. My guess is there must be a storage format difference or something that gets fixed when you do that.)
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Integrating SpamAssassin and BestPractical's RT
Posted 1:42 AM

The filter "Filters::SpamAssassin.pm" that is included with RT doesn't function for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that SpamAssassin doesn't know what a Mime::Entity is (it uses it's own mail format).

At first I wrote 2 versions of the plugin, but then i combined them, seeing as the included one doesn't work at all.

http://www.documentroot.com/SpamAssassin.pm

It uses the "spamd" daemon ... to speed things up which is faster, unless you have Mail::Spamassassin preloaded under mod_perl (assuming you do things that way). If you do have it running that way, you can forget spamd (but isn't it nice you can run your spam checker on another box if you load gets high...).

Of course many people seem to just use fetchmail on some box somewhere, and then rely on that box's builtin mail filtering (can anyone say gmail) for spam. Which works well, but I like the idea of "owning" my mail filter.

Nor all I have to do is add a "spam" status, and some scrips to auto-train spamassasin's bayesian filter on them ... fun.
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Richmond Night Market
Posted 6:58 PM

In case you're in Vancouver (we are) and are looking for the Richmond Night Market this year, it's officially called the "Summer Night Market", a name that doesn't conflict with the copyright owned by "Target Event". Very odd. I read that it was canceled on the old website.... but this is false. The same vendors and same event is just being held under a different name and the former operators are bitter enough about it that they say it has been "canceled", rather than mention the new operator and location.

Mostly I'm writing this so people looking for the Richmond Night Market won't think it was really canceled. I went there tonight. There was music, food and I bought a car-charger for my MP3 player for $5.
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