Month: October 2003
Welcome Salon.com Readers
I guess the Low Carb Hackers article featuring yours truly finally came out because my servers are getting totally slammed. Luckily, it’s a bandwidth bottleneck and not a server bottleneck. Unfortunately, Katharine linked directly to my Eat Watch page instead of my blog, but no worries. Anyway, I feel almost guilty that you’re reading my […]
Hackers on Atkins
Article: Hackers on Atkins By: Katharine Mieszkowski Katharine ran across Inert Ramblings while doing Web searches for hackers and geeks losing weight on Atkins. She contacted me via email, started up a dialogue, and started the interview process after I sent her a short bio.
Panther – Mail.app ate itself…
After upgrading from Jaguar to Panther, Mail.app ate itself. Every time the client started it froze on a reading mailbox dialog box, no menus were clickable and mail wasn’t being synced. Removing all of my IMAP accounts and rebuilding all of them solved the problem. No biggie…a small annoyance. But that’s why I rely on […]
Friday all-hands meeting…
We’re half an hour late for our Friday 4:00 PM all-hands meeting. Why? No beer. Out of Guinness. One of our guys needed to do a beer run before we could kick off the meeting. I love my job.
Copies of the Todino spam…
Copies of the spams that Robert Todino is sending are available from Google: inertramblings.com davesplanet.net A more complete listing of all reported spams advertising quickeasysolution.com and cashgiveawayprogram.com is also available.
Making a list, spamming it twice…
Robert Todino seems to be going down the list of domain names that have been reporting on him. Brian McWilliams, author of Turn Back the Spam of Time, reports that he received spam from Robert with forged davesplanet.net headers. I guess Robert has decided to show us his gratitude by flooding our mailboxes with hundreds […]
Scratch that…checked the logfiles…
OK, I lied. I just checked the logfiles and the bounces have stopped trickling in because the spam is no longer being sent with admin accounts as return addresses. Random From: headers are now being generated and we’re way past the 350,000 bounce mark…I just haven’t been seeing the actual email. Go figure. On a […]
The floodgates have closed…
The email floodgates have finally closed and the stream of bounce messages has dribbled to a slow trickle. 36 hours after the initial email, my mail server has finally gotten a breather. The damage? 3500 bounced emails for around 5000 invalid email addresses. Update: Completely incorrect…I just stopped getting bounces. Checking the logfiles reveals 390,000+ […]
Other people have done most of the work for me…
It seems that other people Robert Todino has pissed off have done most of the work for me. I now have possible valid address that dates back to 1999 and has been used recently: Robert Todino 8 Albert St. Woburn, MA 01801 The above physical address is just over a mile from his fake Oak […]
4 Oak St. in Woburn doesn’t exist…
No big surprise here. After the time traveler pissed me off by sending out spam with inertramblings.com in the return address, I checked out the alleged mailing address from his whois info. Figures…4 Oak St. doesn’t exist in Woburn. Oak St. starts at five and goes up from there. So, either Robert really lives in […]
