Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • Verizon Thinks You’re a Spammer

    They must. Verizon now blocks port 25 and does not allow you to opt out. Why do I care? Well our hospital just opened up free WiFi everywhere and when I found I couldn’t send email I made a couple of trips to the Information Services folks. They swore up and down that they weren’t…

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  • WordPress Automatic Updates

    I think I finally have the automatic updates feature of WordPress working. Previously, when asked for my login info for the FTP connection I would get some vague connection error. It’s a permissions issue. Some permissions for files/folders need to be set for web server user, in my case Apache2, or _www on OS X…

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  • Not on My Watch

    OK, I was sent a nice, likely canned, email asking if I’d point to [Kimberly-Clark Health Care’s Healthcare-Associated Infection website][1]. It seems to have a bunch of information. Remember to use your Kleenex™. [1]: http://haiwatchnews.com/

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  • Server-Side Email Filtering With Sieve

    Another post for the peripheral brain. When I first set up my own server lo these years ago, I never really thought about email message filtering. After all, I had rules in Mail.app that would send my incoming message to wherever I wanted them. Besides, I was much more concerned with eliminating spam. Well, that…

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  • False Positive

    Just a personal reminder to keep in the memory bank. When running OS X Server and SpamAssassin, if you have spam set up to be quarantined it gets stored in /var/virusmails. A method of viewing and releasing quarantined mail mostly from the command line follows. First, to do anything with the quarantined message you need…

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  • Poof it's Gone

    OK, I’m only really posting this cause I need it and I just want to put it somewhere to remember it. 馃槈 To make a file or folder invisible issue the following from the CLI. [applescript] SetFile -a V path/to/fileOrFolder [/applescript] To make it visible again… [applescript] SetFile -a v path/to/fileOrFolder [/applescript] That’s it. This…

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