Found via Mark Greenaway’s blog, an interesting Rolling Stone article about the peak oil production problem, which has had a fair bit of press in New Scientist recently..
eBay phishing email received – Site hosted at Telstra
Just got an eBay phishing email that made it past SpamAssassin and Clam-AV – the site it lists:
203.48.154.161
appears to be at Telstra, and uses an HTML form post to a mailform program in Italy to send an email to a Yahoo email address.
Reported it to those who should know..
Administrator inaccessable, user concerned.
This arrived in the submission basket today..
Today, a user searched frantically for some way of writing to the Administrator, Chris Samuel. Having found nothing, he concocted a fake news story as a thinly vieled attempt at a complaint, in hopes that said Administrator would consider creating some link to internal or regular email, so that said user may ask him a question about his xBackends configuration for PostNuke.Film at 11.
– Todd.
🙂
Todd, it’s easy – you just email to:
chris
at
csamuel.org
and it will (should!) get to me, spam filters allowing…
Note that I’m off on Sunday to Canberra for LCA 2005 and so life is a bit hectic at the moment, but I’ll do my best to answer!
Linus and Bitkeeper
Ian Wienand has an interesting take on the whole Linus/Bitkeeper badness that happened recently, including this interesting email from Linus.
4 More Earthquakes Shake Sumatra
Sumatra has had another 4 sizeable earthquakes (5.8, 6.3, 5.5, 5.9) in the space of 90 minutes after the magnitude 6.8 one. This earthquake map is a good way of seeing them.
There is a BBC News story about the 6.8 quake here.
Strong Earthquake (Initial Report Mag 6.8) Near Sumatra
USGS reporting a magnitude 6.8 quake 70 miles SW of Padang, Sumatra (population 721,000). See their 10 degree map for the location.
Spammer Jailed for 9 Years in the US
Wonderful news, the ABC is reporting that Jeremy Janes has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for breaking Virginia law. Spamhaus has more on the convictions for him & his sister as well as details of their spamming activities.
MG-Rover Deny Receivership Claims
The plot thickens, MG-Rover have denied going into receivership after a statement by the UK’s Trade Secretary saying that they had.
MG-Rover Calls in the Receivers
Just got a news email from the BBC saying that MG-Rover, the last big British car firm, has had to call in the receivers when a deal with a Chinese car company fell through due to uncertainty over a UK government bridging loan. Sad news, I hope something can be salvaged to keep it going.
The Morgan Motor Company in Malvern, where I used to work, still seems to be going strong with a waiting list of 12 months from ordering a car from them. They make lovely cars..
Large Aftershock (5.9) in Nias
I’ve just had an email from the USGS saying there has been a Magnitude 5.9 earthquake in the Nias region of Indonesia within the last hour.
It looks like yet another in a long series of hefty aftershocks that are happening as the faults in the area “unzip” after the massive quake nearby on Boxing Day.