FINALLY
A few days ago, I published the images and tracks of the holiday trip we did in 2015: cycling from Vienna to Budapest, following the Danube river; That is: for about two-thirds. The rest was a bit more inland in Hungary. It may be that I redo part of it – and of earlier reports as well, since the full images take a huge amount of disk space (each is 4.5 Mb in size, and there are over 400 of them…) So moving the images to another disk (32Gb in size) is filled pretty fast (now about 73% used).
Prepared for WordPress update
The latest WordPress version (4.7) has been downloaded, transferred and installed, with Akismet 3.2 (running on 4.6.1. as well). I guess I’ll do some tests and update the blogs this weekend.
12-Dec-2016
More memory
I upgraded my workstation a few weeks ago: Swapped my NVidia-GX660TI based ASUS video card for a real beast (NViiea GeForce 1080) to accommodate two 4K screens. One is now added, the next one is scheduled to arrive next week. With the card came a game that requires at least 16Gb of memory, so I added 16Gb (2 x8Gb) more. This is way faster than the 8gb (2x4Gb) that was installed, so I do not (yet) run at full speed. It takes a bit longer to startup (POST will take some more time to scan the extra bytes) but it is anticipated the game will no longer hang the system because it’s low on memory.
Update ahead
I will need to update WordPress: A new version has just been released. Work for this weekend…
01-Dec-2016
Maintenance
No surprises.
PMAS statistics for November
Total messages : 11696 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 0 = .0 o/o (Files: 0)
Relay attempts : 8705 = 74.4 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS : 2991 = 25.5 o/o (Files: 30)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 2024 = 67.6 o/o (processed), 17.3 o/o (all)
Accepted : 181 = 6.0 o/o (processed), 1.5 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 387 = 12.9 o/o (processed), 3.3 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 371 = 12.4 o/o (processed), 3.1 o/o (all)
Delivered : 28 = .9 o/o (processed), .2 o/o (all)
There have been – as usual – quite a few relay attempts. These were the major ones:
5-Nov
17:47:45.59 - 21:19:19.48
14.221.222.134 ptvye@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.126.com 2118
21:24:49.47 - 21:49:35.06
14.221.222.180 vxbmq@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 239
11-Nov
21:47:52.46 - 00:00:41.93
113.102.246.237 gjl@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.126.com 1348
12-Nov
00:00:47.73 - 01:43:56.1
113.102.246.237 iln@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 1053
19-Nov
00:29:21.94 - 04:19:05.60
113.102.245.96 suwaf@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 2196
22-Nov
23:29:11.59 - 23:59:59.29
14.221.222.248 suwbf@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 319
23-Nov
00:00:05.30 -02:15:06.08 14.221.222.248
svyce@grootersnet.nl jijing667@163.com 1273
Both ranges refer to Chinese sites – that are now blocked in the router. (this works fine because other subnets I already blocked, don’t show up here anymore).
There have been some “test” runs that seem legitimate, but I still need to check on these; and there are new kids on the block, I have to check on these we well, because I’m not certain whether fromdomain@outlook.com is a source or destination
MQTT
On the VMS Bootcamp, a VSI engineer (Brett Cameron) and a Consultant (Robert Nydahl) presented a PoC of an application using the MQTT protocol – used to pass information via a server to mobile device (for instance. Any device can run an application using this protocol). This is interesting stuff, because it offers a load of possibilities to be notified about anything. Fun part is it can aslo be used the other way around, and I see good use for it. So I asked Brett for examples, and though he had it tested on Itanium, I got it working – without any change – on Alpha, as he stated. I still have to set up a few things to get to work on something useful, but I do have some ideas.