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About admin

The author formerly known as HM2K is now the Phurix Labs administrator. ← Older posts

Anti Email Spam in the UK

Posted on March 23, 2012 by admin

Many years back I began investigating anti email spam in the UK as a way to defend against the amount amount of email spam we were receiving to certain email addresses. The reason this email address was getting so much spam … Continue reading →

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eggtcl project

Posted on July 19, 2011 by admin

I’m pleased to announce that the eggdrop TCL scripts from the HM2K code repository will become part of the eggtcl project. The eggtcl project is a repository of approved TCL scripts for eggdrop that allow you to easily update them as new versions … Continue reading →

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Announcing Phurix Labs

Posted on July 14, 2011 by admin

I’ve been thinking about retiring this site for some time now, but have been toying with the pros and cons. A decision had to be made.

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Has friendster been hacked?

Posted on June 1, 2011 by admin

I noticed an unusual email when I checked my Gmail account today. Sure it was spam, but this one was tagged with a “Password” tag, a tag that I used to filter any emails that contain an old password. Low and … Continue reading →

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Converting your logo to ASCII art

Posted on May 25, 2011 by admin

If you’re a geek like me or you’ve just  seen Iron Man 2 you’ll probably like the idea of having a custom motd display something cool when you login to your shell or terminal server. Sure, you can use figlet to … Continue reading →

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