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Monthly Archives: January 2005
Configuring Postfix to use TLS and SMTP AUTH
I finally sat down to set up Postfix to allow people outside my firewall to send mail using my SMTP server. It was a mildly annoying task, but not too troublesome. Here are my notes on how it worked, in…
Posted in software
Searching video
It was amusing to come across Google’s announcement of searchable video subtitles the other day. I thought of this applying this idea to a set-top box when I was at Rearden Steel; no, I’m sorry, Moxi; er, make that Digeo.…
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Probability Theory
I’m trying to slog through Jaynes’s Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. It’s a refreshing change to read a book where I spend a good portion of the time clutching my head, feeling hopelessly stupid. This is no fault of…
Posted in reading
The Scientists
I have just finished reading John Gribbin’s The Scientists, which is a wonderful book on the history of Western science, from the era of Copernicus to the present. The style of the book is biographical, avoiding deep treatment of discoveries…
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Better luck with music
How much better it is to be patient, and visit Aquarius, than to give into the desire for a quick fix and waste time at Borders or some other soulless chain. I pulled my occasional largely-unplanned-trip-to-the-record-store trick on Thursday. Oh,…
Posted in music
