Author: joelh

Joost is an online TV technology developed by the makers of Kazaa and Skype. It works by using p2p technology to deliver near TV quality full screen video. I’ve recently downloaded and tried out the beta and I can say its a lot of fun. A lot of the recent feedback of the product has…

Yahoo! have a bit of a lame history. They were given many millions of dollars and have always been one of the most visited websites on the internet but somehow they have never really done anything that exciting with it. Recently that has changed. There was the Yahoo UI Library which made AJAX programming much…

Fring.com allows you to make VoIP calls from your mobile phone, as well as connect to IM networks and so forth. In my case I’m fairly sure with “Three” I don’t have access to the Internet. This service looks really cool but plans in Australia still have very high data costs. The day when we…

A flash program from nikon allows you to view the entire universe and attempts to give you an idea of the scale. Trippy.

E-stores in Australia have never really taken off because most attempt to mimic the American stores but without the massive amounts of content and without the economies of scale. I honestly thought that the Australian market had no place for E-stores, but now working off the success of EBay stores selling large volume high discount…

This article is based on my own experiences, and should be directly applicable to anyone fighting spam for a small to medium sized organization using open source software. It will be useful for people setting up home rigs and setups. We found that out of the box SpamAssassin was horribly ineffective and was only stopping…

For the love of god why? Postfix by default allows you to override certain configuration elements using the “-o” flag to smtpd. This means you can set up separate smtpd daemons in your master.cf file and do funky things like have a separate postfix instance that uses a different content_filter. The default setup of amavis…

An incredible video of a Peugeot dominating a large mountain. The sound of the engine and responsiveness is incredible. Climb Dance on google video.

Check out the photos of this VW Factory. They’re not Nissans, but impressive anyway.

I’m not much of a math’s geek but this is incredibly impressive.