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Email obfuscation techniques are used to hide email address from spammers. They’re used to show email addresses in web pages without the risk of exposing them to spam bots which constantly crawl the web harvesting for them.
In this article, I’ll describe 3 techniques I’ve used to obfuscate email address.

It is over, but not in a traditional sense. I mean, I still receive loads of junk mail daily but they all go straight to the “Spam folder” so I never get to see them, pretty much as if I had never received them. Spam is just something I don’t care anymore.
For me, it’s quite […]

Today, while working on a project at Insopha, we were parsing some HTML code using BeautifulSoup for screen scraping purposes when we faced a maximum recursion depth exceeded runtime error. At first we thought it was caused by some bug in the BeautifulSoup library, but then we realized that the Python interpreter was detecting […]

Are you using Mutt and wondering whether it’s better to use mbox (mailbox) or maildir for mail storage?. I hope this post will help you decide.
Here I publish a simple benchmark results of the time it takes mutt to read/open a folder with 28.000 emails.
First, some notes about the tests:

software: mutt 1.5.13 compiled with […]

Have you ever stumbled upon a semi-frozen Linux server without being able to reboot it because of some processes waiting in uninterruptible sleep for some I/O, while still being able to login through SSH?
I have. More than once. So why not just force a hardware reset, writing some garbage to restricted I/O ports or memory […]

This is a pretty simple PHP script that allows you to access your (OpenVPN-based) VPN status (such as connected hosts, received/transferred bytes, etc) through a web page. It fetches the information using OpenVPN management console and displays it in a web-friendly way.

This guide will show you how to setup a very simple, useful and straightforward dynamic DNS udpate system using only a small php script (and a nameserver, of course).

I’ve opened a wiki about network cameras to discuss and document about their functionality, communication protocols, and internals. in the hope that it will be useful for people dealing with video surveillance apps and he communication with this rather propietary devices.
Check it out and let me know what you think. Needless to say, contributions are […]

Introduction
This is a quick dirty howto to create transparent PNGs compatible with Internet Explorer using The Gimp.

Introduction
A friend of mine told me he found a guy from Italy who propose to sell him stuff at $200. The weird thing was that this same stuff was at $1000 in ebay, lowest price. So, something is clearly wrong here. To begin with, if he’s so desperate he could just have sold the stuff […]