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Saturday, April 5, 2003
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RSS Gets a HUGE Backer: "Dave Winer: Microsoft Supports RSS." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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Mac OS X spam filter -- Comment()
Mail.app spam filter a dud? "One of the big selling-points for Apple's Mail application in OS X is the adaptive spam filter. Reviewers have gone wild praising how wonderful it is, and how it gets rid of 95% of their spam. In my experience, it has been catching about one fifth of the junk, and letting 80% through." [The Fishbowl] I have been satisfied with the filter, although the efficiency has diminished during the last six months. In the beginning, almost 90% of the spam was stopped, and now only about 80%. In any case, 2-5 spam messages getting through of about 20 per day is not so bad. The filter needs an update, that is for sure. But it still is an excellent tool. Perhaps the good efficiency for me is due to the fact that there is not so much Finnish-language spam as there is English.
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The state of the grid, or return from Manchester -- Comment()
On Friday is was in Manchester at the Computer Science department of the University. The campus area is nice and has some open spaces, but the department itself was a bit crowded. The spring was well advanced, with daffodils in flower everywhere, and leaves in many bushes and small trees. The temperature in daytime was 13-15°C. What a contrast to Finland: it was snowing when I left, and it was snowing when I returned. I learned a lot about the state of the art in grid technologies at the meeting. Also, I found about some practical details about the European Union activities in this area. It is now much clearer what EU wants to promote in the 6th framework programs. This is an interesting area to be involved in, and I started to believe that much of the hype in grids in fact is not hype at all. There really is something revolutionary going on. I have to think some more about grids and the meeting in Manchester. The hospitality was fine, and the company excellent.
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