Rainboy's Lair

Did read about a new program to stop spam on your POP3 accounts, well, not really stop it, but mark it for you so you can do anything you want with it, i.e. move it to a spam folder with a rule, to just remove the darn messages, it even got the posibility to tell in which languages you want to receive messages, so that all others will be suspecious. Sad it doesnt work with IMAP, only POP3.

SA Proxy (Spam Assassin Proxy) is based on the Open Source software Spam Assassin. It runs as a local proxy server that sits between your email program and your POP3 mail account.

All you need to do is start SAProxy and configure your email program to connect to it instead of the normal incoming mail server (documentation shows how to do it). The next time you check your email, all spam messages will be tagged with ****SPAM**** in the subject line, allowing you to easily recognize them, or to create a rule in your email program that will move those tagged messages into a separate folder.

Spam Assassin uses Bayesian filtering which is highly accurate and can learn from new spam as it is detected. The program does not delete any spam, but only marks it, leaving it up to you what to do with it.

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In my search for free photo’s to use on my websites either personal or for business purpose, i look for cheap, if possible, even free photo’s. Sometimes i need to shoot them myself, but often you can find some good pictures at Yotophoto.

Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These are images that are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses.

This makes Yotophoto a perfect platform for me to search the net, as they index the largest free photo websites for me, as they say:

We index various sources of free imagery on the web including Flickr, Wikipedia, Stock.Xchng, Morguefile, Pixelperfect Digital and OpenPhoto. We treat the sites we index as partners and respect the rights of the photographers whose images we index.

Browse directly to Yotophoto by clicking this link.

One website to remember is 1001freefonts.com, when searching for some fonts i stumbled accross this website between the hundreds of other websites which say they offer free fonts but actualy are not offering such a thing, or very limited. 1001 free fonts is exactly what it says it got, over a thousand free fonts for you to use. Not a new website, but worth sharing with you all.

Link: Click here for the 1001 free fonts website

The Dude network monitor is a new application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network enviroment. It will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems.

Official download page:
http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php

Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl.

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

Official download site:
Linux: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
Windows: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
MacOS X: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html
Solaris: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-solaris.html

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage’s ftp password, online passwords (like CodeProject member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem… A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

Official download page:
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/download.php

For usefull plugins, take a look here:
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/plugins.php

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

Official download page:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

WinSCP is an open source freeware SFTP client for Windows using SSH. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.

Features:

* Graphical user interface
* Translated into several languages
* Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons)
* All common operations with files
* Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2
* Batch file scripting and command-line interface
* Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways
* Integrated text editor
* Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication
* Integrates with Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) for full support of public key authentication
* Windows Explorer-like and Norton Commander-like interfaces.
* Optionally stores session information.
* Optionally supports standalone operation using a configuration file in place of registry entries, suitable for operation from removable media

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux.

Main Features:

* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
* Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive.
* Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
* Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).
2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
* Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent, Triple DES, and Twofish. Mode of operation: LRW (CBC supported as legacy).
* Conceived in 2003.

Offcial download page can be found here:
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php