Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Pesto The basil is getting bushy, it's harvest time again. The first order of business is to find the basil mantis. He's not part of the pesto. The harvest The recipie I have never met a recipie that I didn't want to modifiy. For pesto, I am starting with a basic pesto recipie from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I don't know how much basil I have, so I'll wing the amounts. Also almonds are replacing pine nuts. This is close: 4 cups fresh basil 5 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup shredded Asagio cheese 1 cup raw almonds chopped. 2-3 cloves crushed garlic Blend until smooth. It's a little gooey. You could probably add more olive oil, garlic or cheese. 4:07:44 PM     Comment []

SpamAssassin I spent sometime the last couple of days rooting around on the Unix side of OS X installing SpamAssassin. Following the how to listed on the download page, I think I understood what I was doing about half the time. But the installation worked without a hitch. Since I use PowerMail instead of Apple's Mail.app, I also had to set up a pop3 server. qpopper does the trick and comes with extensive documentation that made installation a snap. So now, I have email filtering through SpamAssassin and the results are very good. I tweeked the required_hits from the default 5 to 8 after getting a couple of false positives. I haven't had any errors since. Cool! 9:39:14 AM     Comment []