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Various french news sites report that Nicolas Sarkozy (french minister and head of the right-wing UMP party) is in the process of spamming french citizens with his crap propaganda. Strangely enough, I didn’t get his mail, although my mail address is probably in every spammer’s database… So I found a copy of the spam on Internet, looked at its headers, gave a look at my Postfix logs, and after grepping accordingly, it looks like I got it:

Sep 27 22:13:37 paperstreet postfix/smtpd[30891]: 7A11610334: client=ump.emv1.com[84.14.78.161]
Sep 27 22:13:39 paperstreet postfix/qmgr[385]: 7A11610334: from=, size=10925, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 27 22:13:39 paperstreet spamd[30935]: processing message <1400207618.387064.1127851883025@sch1.emv2.com> for colin:1015.
Sep 27 22:13:43 paperstreet spamd[30935]: identified spam (7.8/5.0) for colin:1015 in 4.1 seconds, 10651 bytes.

Looks like my Spamassassin is well-trained and doesn’t miss any junk, after all! :-)

Finally, I know why OpenOffice loads as fast as a mammoth runs. According to this interview, this is mainly because the kernel I/O schedulers and readahead algorithm suck, and also because of g++ which sucks at linking.

Pardon, mais LOL.

Biloba is a board game that I wrote for Guillaume Demougeot, and which he open-sourced last week.
After the initial release, we had a few comments in the Linuxfr news I posted, and I released version 0.3 to address most of the remarks we got.

I’m really happy about this opening :-) Give that game a try, it’s addictive!

The default install of WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4, when you choose a server profile, comes with X and gnome. WhiteBox is a de-branded RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution, so I suppose RHEL does the same.
Hey, RedHat, where did you learn installing servers? During a Microsoft Windows NT meeting?