SquareCows

I’ve been playing on the squarecows servers with some new and updated spam fighting tools. Firstly I decided to beef up spamassasin with the latest and greatest rule sets from the rules emporium, and then I thought I’d take a serious look at SPF and DKIM. Both which are relatively easy to get going if you have a few hours to play and spend tweaking. Now neither of these features on there own will combat spam so that why I use both! Also I’m now signing outgoing messages using dkimproxy which works really well with postfix, and will hopefully stop my users ham being marked as spam, well once these technolgies take off that is

If anyone else has been playing with anti spam software recently, I’d love to hear from you.

Well I’ve been working on this site in the background and getting ready for a few new releases of my software. I’m now using wordpress as some of you will notice, as its admin interface is fantastic which will allow me to post updates easier.  I’m also pondering the idea of an opensource guitar FX pedal using the arduino and a ADC, as a side project, I’ve seen a project doing the same but without using a ADC, so that will be a good place to start. The rest of my time at the moment is taken up with launching OSAP which is a charity to help other charities deploy opensource software to save money! We are also building a large scale HA web platform to host any charity for free.

I’ve updated the SVN version with a patch from Glen Carreras which fixes a problem with parsing the log file when the timezone is -0700 for example. Thanks also to Jordan Slott and Darren Enns who pointed out this bug.

Also applied patch submitted by glen to allow this script to run on windows!

01/06/08 - Download apache-geo-maps 0.6b

apache-geo-map-0-6b.tar.gz

Changes for this release:

• Cleaned up log Parse code (new code)
• Fixed bug which caused a .data.xml file to be created when defaults where used, this should of been data.xml
• Added browser data to pop-ups
• Added browser icons
• Added country flags to pop-ups
• Added time and date data to pop-ups
• Cleaned up HTML code for example

For the 0.7b release I’m planning on adding one final feature which will rotate the data.xml file’s into monthly views of your hits, which is very useful when you have lots of hits to plot.

I’ve now built a svn repository thats public accessable and includes all the versions from 0.2b onwards. It’ll have the latest version I’m working on, but there is no guarantee that that code will work correctly

To check out the repository follow these instructions:

If you’d like to become a develeoper mail me and I’ll grant you write access.

07/05/08 - Download apache-geo-maps 0.5b

apache-geo-map-0-5b.tar.gz

Changes for this release:

• Added config support from command line example: (./apache-geo-map.pl -c /etc/apachegeomap/default.conf). This should allow you to run the script easily for multiple sites.
• The script still supports defaults so you don’t have to specify a config file.
• Added HOWTO
• Fixed bug when script fails, which used to through an error about a missing file.
• Fixed the apachemap.html example file as there were a few incorrect paths specified.

I’ve put the code in to testing for 0.5b. I’ll run it here for a few days whilst I prepare some documention and make sure it works.

Changes for the upcoming release

• Added config support from command line example: (./apache-geo-map.pl -c /etc/apachegeomap/default.conf). This should allow you to run the script easily for multiple sites.
• The script still supports defaults so you don’t have to specify a config file.
• Added HOWTO
• Fixed bug when script fails, which used to through an error about a missing file.

Future elements for 0.6

• Allow elements of the config to be changed on the command line.
• Marker counter details on html page
• Debian and RPM packages
• Better documentation
• Improved html example page
• Code Tidy

13/04/08 - Download apache-geo-maps 0.4b

apache-geo-map-0-4b.tar.gz

Added a new feature which plots new hits in a different colour to old hits to make them easier to see. The markers are then updated to the old colour on the next run. I’ve also released this version under the GPL v3

14/12/07 - Download marker upgrade script

upgrade-markers.pl.gz

This script will loop through your existing data and upgrade the markers to the new format which includes a data popup. Note you need to install the Geo::GeoNames perl module, which resolves the host names using ws.geonames.org

12/12/07 - Download apache-geo-maps 0.3a

apache-geo-map-0-3a.tar.gz

Started using custom icons in blue to show new style hits with City name info popups. NOTE: add icon=”" to your existing markers.

Tested with m0n0wall 1.2 and 1.3b

01/12/07 - v 1.3

Added support for gziping the old logs. Useful if you have lots of rules.

Download: mono-backup-1-3.tar.gz
md5sum: 3efd6d35d87c88383b0c4ce23eafc9cb