Mike’s Family Blog

I’m posting a link below to a site where the guy did a frame capture of Lord of the Rings.  He used a DVD source and then a HD source and compared the still shots.  The results, if you have an eye for detail when it comes to movies, is amazing.  Um, HD anyone?

http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/

Now, you want to talk some wicked, smokin technology, check out this HD video camera from Oakley called Red.
http://red.com
I’ll fix that later.  Meantime, cut and paste.

Dramatic headline eh?

I had to block my email server yesterday after I was sent an email saying my email server was set up as an open relay and propagating spam messages. When I checked things out, I was shocked to find that the system had sent out almost 20,000 unsolicited emails! WOW!

For those who need the plain english description, an open relay means that spammer@domain1.com can send mail to victim@domain3.com by connecting through openrelay@domain2.com. This means that the recipient (victim@domain3.com) will not see that the email is coming from spammer@domain1.com, it’ll actually look like it’s coming from openrelay@domain2.com.

It turned out it was a setting I had overlooked when setting up my email server. Once I fixed that and cleaned out the other 8,000 emails that were waiting to be delivered, I was able to bring it back online. I then filled out the online form at Open Relay Database to retest me. They were the ones who originally sent me the email, so I was glad to have that cleared up.

Turns out, the open relay issue is probably why I haven’t been able to successfully send email to people on several ISPs.

This is where I’ll post some tech news that I find interesting. Nuff said for now.