FolkWolf.Net

Back in 1999 I told people that I was coming out with an e-commerce strategy RSN. Well, 6 years later, my plan has come to fruition. See if you can spot the change.

My Web Community strategy came and went a little while ago, but I'm planning for Community3.0, due out RSN. Meaning, probably another 6 years.

It is entirely useless, afaict. I guess it's the whole mentality.

I removed a bunch of php web applications into an archive on the folkwolf, and removed their permissions. There's a worm going around that exploits php code. Most of the applications that I run on the folkwolf are php apps, and there was a lot of dead weight lying around, and I didn't feel like auditing all that code, so I just removed all the stuff that I don't use. If anyone wants anything back, lemme know

I shut off telnet a long time ago, mainly because it's not secure. There is a program that replaces telnet for windows that is secure, and free. You can get it here.

just download that and run it. It's the same kind of thing as telnet, only encrypted.

I've done a lot of work behind the scenes lately to the various programs that make up the web portion of the folkwolf.

1. I've installed wordpress, the software that is running this frontpage. I like it so far, it's much easier to administer than moveabletype, plus, you can add yourself as a user, and make posts, if you like.

2. I've upgraded gallery to the final beta of 2.0. This version is far more secure by design, and also a lot easier to administer.

3. I've played around with squirrelmail, and so far it has not made me happy. It's ugly, it doesn't do folders properly (or how I think it should). I'll do some more playing around with it, as well as a bit more hunting, but if anyone comes across a nice webmail app, lemme know.

Not physically, but internetally. After all the problems we had with istop ,we decided to switch providers. We're now connected through magma, and hopefully much better and more reliable for it. There was a lot of short-term pain involved, because I didn't really plan anything, but hopefully, things are back to normal now, and it'll work out to a lot of long term gain.

Ted has been secondarying my mail for me for almost as long as the folkwolf has been around, it's a great service when the folkwolf becomes unavailable, as mail queues up on his machine.

So if you get spam, and you happen to see headers that say it was relayed by bombshelter.ca, PLEASE don't report it to rogers, because it gets him in shit.

Note: forwarded message attached.

Matt, apparenlty someone's decided that my relaying for you is a spam. Can you fixie? Maybe I shouldn't be listed as your relay anymore?

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what to do. Tell rogers that as the postmaster of folkwolf.net, I agreed to accept any mail that you relay to me as my secondary, and I'll tell my users that your mail server is supposed to relay mail to me, and not to bitch to rogers if they see your mail server in the header path.

Ted

It seems like these are the only blog entries I make these days, but whaddaya gonna do.

Remember kids, the idea of folkwolf.net support is laughable in itself, the idea of there being a support TEAM at folkwolf is inconceivable. Therefore, any messages that purport to come from the folkwolf.net support team are viruses and will do horrible nasty things to your computer if you open it. If a message doesn't come from me or chris, then you can feel free to ignore it. Most general info will go up here.

I tweaked some sendmail settings that were introduced in the latest version, that should help combat spam, but could also cause some temporary delays of email. If you have any mail that should have gone to you, but were bounced back, send me the bounce message, and we'll work it out. More details on exactly what I did are below

I added a tasklist and calendar to the webmail program.