New month
and so some maintenance must be exercised. Last month’s logs have been archived, and mail statistics processed:
PMAS statistics for February
Total messages : 3386 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 2228 = 65.8 o/o (Files: 28)
Relay attempts : 111 = 3.2 o/o (Files: 28)
Processed by PMAS : 1047 = 30.9 o/o (Files: 28)
Discarded : 323 = 30.8 o/o (processed), 9.5 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 254 = 24.2 o/o (processed), 7.5 o/o (all)
Delivered : 470 = 44.8 o/o (processed), 13.8 o/o (all)
two-third just dropped; which is rather normal; the number of relay attempts rather high, these are mostly attampts to relay to yahoo.tw addresses – more or less the same address each time, a few each day. And once in a while from my ISP – which bounces nicely.
The Wiki trouble
Apart from crawlers looking for the AirTicket stuff there are some attempts to retrieve this deleted data. Upload hasn’t been attempted any more. (That would fail as well). No reaction of this bloke. He’s just trying again once in a while – but the setting has been changed and he seems to be quite stubborn: twice was tried to create a new user – with bogus name, and therefore I removed both accounts. Now without warning.
New VMS licences
are not required in short time: I rechecked them and found the current ones last for another month. But I’ll keep an eye on it.
Video problems
Ubuntu on the workstation has some issues with the (ATI) video card. Rendering flat-faced surfaces (like this blog background) show unrendered pixels first, these will be filled later on. Fast chaning windows case the system to hang – completely. Even CTRL+Alt+F1 doesn’t work. The only alternative is to reset the machine…
The primary Windows environment blows the screen as well – where the chips looses synch, it seems. The screen doesn’t blank, the system doesn’t hang but the screen cannot be used at all. The alternate system however blanks, and regains the graphical processor, resets and continues.
Weird.
Not always, always all of a sudden and, of course, at a most inconvenient time. Perhaps I’ll get myself an NVidea card instead (with a heat sink in stead of an on-board fan, it won’t do that much anyway).
Blog program
I think I’ll start programming, starting with the most troublesome part: file access. I now have a fairly good idea what I’ll do. See how much time I can spend on it, aside learning Linux, as long as I’m off assignement (which won’t be too long, I hope)