spamassassin / dashboard
August 03, 2003, 01:08 pmWow. I finally configured spamassassin and it has made a huge difference. I'm definitely going to play around with it more, because there have been a few spams get through.
I was reading Tim O'Reilly's Blog and I found a link to dashboard:
The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time.
While you read email, browse the web, write a document, or talk to your friends on IM, dashboard does its best to proactively find objects that are relevant to your current activity, and to display them in a friendly way.
We call the dashboard an “association engine.”
What this means is that if you're using an application that has a backend for dashboard (such as a web browser, IM client, IRC client, &c.) and you talk about a project you're working on, someone's name, a phone number, whatever, your personal database of metadata will be queried automatically to show you pertinant information in the dashboard client. Wow!
I haven't yet tried it out, as it seems it requires a lot of bleeding edge software to run, but I'm definitely interested in it. I'll try to install it sometime next week.
I was poking around in their web-accessible CVS repository and was reading a file containing backend thoughts when I saw this:
[ Oh my god. I cannot stand this guy sitting to my left. Please just shut the fuck up. ]
That's hilarious!