Bryce's Radio ExperimentsThe Intersection of PDAs, Wireless, Radio, and CSS.Jam Master Jay, RIP- October 31, 2002 I'm blacking out for the rest of the day in remembrance of Jason Mizell, aka Jam Master Jay. Jam Master Jay, the D.J. who provided beats and scratches to the rap group Run-DMC's groundbreaking records, was shot and killed in a recording studio in Queens on Wednesday night. ... For most of its history, rap has been criticized for promoting violence, and several rappers who sang the praises of the gangster life, including Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., were murdered. But Run-DMC and Jam..http://radio.ntwizards.net/2002/10/31.html#a1322 Airport security leads to topless checkpoint- October 31, 2002 A French tourist got so fed up with having her chest wanded by airport security in the USA that she took off her shirt and bra to demonstrate her bomb-and-boxcutter-free chestular region. The airport was closed for 10 minutes. Under the USAPATRIOT Act, she faces up to three years in jail. Link (German-English translation here: Link) via Boing Boing Blog This would be funny if it weren't so friggin' sad. America has become such a fearful place that even a half-naked woman threatens us. When I...http://radio.ntwizards.net/2002/10/31.html#a1321 POPFile, Part II- October 31, 2002 I got "POPFile" working, at another user's suggestion I exported some mail folders as .csv text files instead of individual .msg binary files. So far I've put 5500 messages into the corpus, with about 5% being known spam and half of the remainder coming from 16 mailing lists. I'm keeping all of my Outlook rules in place until I am confident in POPFile's classifications. I've added two rules for POPFile, for spam and a mailing list that I just joined. The new list is a good test of how quickly...http://radio.ntwizards.net/2002/10/31.html#a1320 POPFile- October 31, 2002 Decided to give POPFile a whirl tonight. Exported a few thousand messages from Outlook 2002, upgraded to the latest version of Perl, uninstalled SpamNet. The program that builds the corpus doesn't seem to like me. It acts like it is importing my messages but the corpus file winds up empty. I suspect that it has problems with Outlook's binary message format, in spite of the documentation saying otherwise. Tried the latest version from CVS, no difference. I filed a bug report, we'll see what...http://radio.ntwizards.net/2002/10/31.html#a1319 I Have a (Backup) Dream- October 30, 2002 A few months ago I wrote about the pains of backing up large drives. I use a 60GB drive for backups of important files from my main 120 gigger, but I think that I'll outgrow this solution in 6 months. Fortunately I have a pair of 30 giggers lying around... Looking at the files I am backing up, well over 90% of the space used is static -- changes are rare, additions are infrequent. I need a long-term archiving solution. Burning those files to CD isn't very appealing, I would need about 100 of...http://radio.ntwizards.net/2002/10/30.html#a1318 Client-side Spam Filtering- October 30, 2002 I've always wondered why client-side spam filters for Windows are designed to work only with certain mail clients. SpamNet and Spam Assasin Pro only work with Outlook 2000+, SpamNix for Eudora 3+, etc... These tools could reach a wider audience if they were built as generic POPIMAP proxies. Open Source to the rescue. POPFile is a POP3 proxy that uses "Naive Bayes" for classification, written in Perl but geared for Windows users. Pop3proxy and IMAPAssasin use the...http://radio.ntwizards.net/2002/10/30.html#a1317 |