Michael Cook’s Place

Things have finally died out in my SPAM reply chain. It took two days or more. There have been a few fun updates. When we last left, Steve had sent an email, marked important, that he didn’t understand anything. A few other people responded that they were in the same boat, or more on the [...]

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So what happens when someone starts sending SPAM from your domain? Well it seems that this weekend someone started doing just that, maybe. There were at least using my mail server. It’s been a little annoying to get a bunch of bounce messages, but I got something interesting out of all this. (ed: continued later [...]

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My little saga has, for now, come to a close. Below is my second letter to the CEO of AT&T. Here is what happened since part 1.
Since finally getting my service installed last Monday or so, I’ve had to call them up three different times to get them to fix my speed to be what [...]

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I put of the first public release of a Java simulation I’ve been working on, called Gravitoids.
Download and try it, it’s surprisingly fun to watch.

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I recently have gone through the fun of trying to get a phone line and DSL service setup with AT&T. I must say, they have been inept the entire time. At the end of this post is a copy of the letter I sent the CEO. It is exactly as sent, except for removing some [...]

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