Month: March 2005

Installing ClamAV and Exiscan on cPanel

I’m mostly documenting this here so that when/if I have to move to another server again, I have this documented somewhere. This will setup server-side e-mail scanning on cPanel servers using Exiscan and ClamAV.

  1. First, follow these wonderful directions to get version .75 of ClamAV installed onto your system. That page also gives you the information on how to setup your Exim configuration in WHM properly to filter things.
  2. Next, make sure you run an “ln -s /etc/clamav.conf /etc/clamd.conf” command as a root user (thanks to the tip here). The reason you do this is that upgrades to ClamAV that have been posted in the cPanel forums use a differently named config file, but the information in those files is the same so this makes it so that you can call it by either name and be good to go.
  3. You very well may need to update your zlib, otherwise the update to .83 won’t work. Follow the commands in this post to make sure you have zlib 1.2.2 or higher on your server.
  4. You can then update to .83 by following the directions in this post (it refers to .82, but that will bring you up to .83, as the file it refers to has since been updated). After it’s all said and done, run “clamscan -V” from the command line, and you should be good to go.

March 6, 2005

New York Times Going For Google Gold

The New York Times is redesigning their site and creating static topical pages whose links will never change, undoubtedly in an attempt to get those pages listed high on Google results. Full Story.

March 4, 2005

“I’m Watching You, Jimmy”

For the ultimate in lazy parents, Microsoft is working on a stuffed animal that will watch your kids for you so you don’t even have to be in the same room to interact with your kids.

March 3, 2005

Why Video Phones Are Good

This just angers me. A student used a cell phone to capture video of teacher yelling at student, and then posts the video on his Web site. What’s the school district do? They punish the student, and leave the teacher alone. Asinine? Dang right it is.

The video in question is below…

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March 3, 2005

Sponsor An NHL Player

Please, think about their modest needs in this time of crisis. Just listen to this fund raising advertisement and don’t tell me it doesn’t make you feel sorry for them (linking on my old server, which is still alive for another couple weeks — will mirror here when that site goes down or if it runs too slow).

March 3, 2005

Random Cow Fact

They hold some ugly grudges. I probably would, too, if my sole purpose in life was to produce or become food or clothing for a human.

March 3, 2005

Sexual Experiment Gone Bad

That’s going to leave a mark…

Raju Shetty’s attempt to adopt an inventive method to enhance sexual pleasure landed him on the surgeon’s table yesterday.

Inspired by the fad of body piercing, the Pantnagar (Ghatkopar) resident substituted a ring with a metal nut and pushed it around his penis. Problem was, the metal stayed stubbornly stuck to his organ for over two hours.

It gets worse — the metal was too thick, so they couldn’t cut it off, so they had to gradually pull the thing off over two hours. And if the guy would’ve delayed any more getting to the hospital, it would’ve developed gangrene and they probably would’ve just cut the thing off.

March 3, 2005

Begging For Nookie

If you’re trying to get something special from that special lady of yours, make sure that nobody can hear you.

March 2, 2005

Conan Visits With Simpson’s Voice Talent

As many of you may (or may not) know, Conan O’Brien used to write for The Simpson’s (back in their glory days, in my opinion). Now that he’s got his own show, he had some of his former co-workers on the show — Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer and many other characters) and Harry Shearer (voice of Mr. Burns among others) — and it’s amazing to watch voice talent like that in person.

March 2, 2005

What’s With The Small Phonebooks?

We used to always get a small-ish phone book from other companies, but I always used the big ol’ Dex phone book as it was more complete, had more local info, etc … . The small ones I’d either throw away or put in the trunk of my car in case I needed it.

Now I get my Qwest/Dex/Whatever phone book today, and now they’re bundling a small phone book with it. (I also noticed that they printed an advertisement directly on the bottom side of the book, on to the side of the pages — I’m sure that ad was cheap.) I wondered if this was some sort of supplemental phone book with more info, but no: It’s just another phone book for people to keep around that has less extraneous stuff in it and Bend is just the latest market to get one.

March 2, 2005