Aigarius Blog (Posts about spam)http://aigarius.com/categories/spam.atom2021-06-30T20:20:39ZAigars MahinovsNikolaSBackup revitalising - I18Nhttp://aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/08/sbackup-revitalising-i18n/2006-08-08T22:08:41Z2006-08-08T22:08:41ZAigars Mahinovs<p></p><p>The development of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbackup/">SBackup</a> was very stale for most of this year, mostly because many of the bug/feature that user were requesting required a significant rewrite of the codebase and at the same time I saw how messy the code has become over time. A few people came up and offered some help, but out of that only new icons and a command-line parameter parser were fully developed - other developers just took a task or a an idea and disappeared.</p><p><br>However this week my trust in Open Source development model was reinforced by Jonh Wendell. He approached me yesterday about localising SBackup to Portuguese and was also willing to add the i18n support that was needed for that. I gave him all the details he needed and forgot about it. But today he came back with working code and a translation.</p><p><br>That really inspired me to resume working on improving SBackup one little it at a time. Expect a new release version 0.10 soon with i18n and a few long awaited bugfixes.</p><p><br>Also, if you want to translate SBackup to your language - use <a href="http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/sbackup/trunk/po/messages.pot">this</a> file as your template. There are only 75 strings to translate.</p><p><br>P.S. One happy user of SBackup donated some of his time cleaning up <a href="http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/">SBackup wiki</a> from spam. Thank you for that! Now I only need a way to prevent the spam from coming back there :(</p>For those who care about flamewars!http://aigarius.com/blog/2006/06/28/for-those-who-care-about-flamewars/2006-06-28T22:06:40Z2006-06-28T22:06:40ZAigars Mahinovs<p></p><p><a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-curiosa/2006/06/msg00075.html">This</a> MUST stop now! If every DD would express his opinion and anger and frustration on the thread, then it would be the mother of all flamewars and it will suck the life out of all other Debian lists and stop the development outright. Flames shall not pass!</p><br><p style="font-size: 2px;">In case someone did not get the joke - it is fun. Join the fun. Display all the traditional flamewar tactics and frases in absurd and hyper overstated ways. Let off some steam in a fictional debate about nothing. Have a bit of fun. It is curiose after all.</p>Learning TurboGears now. True MVC separa...http://aigarius.com/blog/2005/12/24/learning-turbogears-now-true-mvc-separa/2005-12-24T00:12:00Z2005-12-24T00:12:00ZAigars Mahinovs<p></p><p> </p><div> <p>Learning <a href="http://www.turbogears.org/">TurboGears</a> now. True <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_view_controller">MVC</a> separation. Nice and powerful. <a href="http://www.turbogears.org/about/kid.html">Templates</a> are valid XHTML documents (and not a mess of <a href="http://www.symfony-project.com/tutorial/my_first_project.html">gibberish</a>). Not much <a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/MagicFieldNames">magic</a>. I hate magic. Especially when it fails. I look forward to writing a task tracking system for a very special project in this framework. More about the project when it is launched. You're gonna love it ;)<br><br>Also I am going to visit my family - they still have no Internet, so I'll be mostly offline 'till the New Year (except for <a href="http://m.gmail.com">this</a> and <a href="http://plogit.sourceforge.net/">this</a>). So I wish you all a Merry Christmas (note: there is absolutely nothing christian about Christmas - it existed like 2000 years before that character from Bible is born according to that book and in Latvian this day is called "Ziemassvētki" - "ziema" = winter, "svētki" = celebration) and a Happy New Year (if you are really an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy">orthodox</a> christian, why do you count years the new, non-christian way? you should be celebrating New Year on 13th of January like Christ did and the Orthodox church still does, because it uses <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Calendar">Julian Calendar</a> more then 420 years after it has been denounced)!<br><br>Oh, the fun of touting religious people ... of any religion ... :D Have fun everybody!<br><br>Footnote: in October I noted that there have been 11000 spam mails in my GMail spam box at that point (it stores only spam that has arrived in last 30 days). Today I am pleased to say that I can only see 4300 spam mails there today. It could be that GMail has implemented some procedures so that some spam does not even reach that folder, but I shall be very optimistic and say that amount of spam has declined! Maybe spammers are on holidays? If so, I wish they stay there :D </p> </div>