Piotr Przemyslaw Karwasz




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  1. 1. get a Ph.D.
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    2,774 people
  2. 2. publish in MathML
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  3. 3. Wikimonography Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
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    1 person
  4. 4. circumnavigate the world
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    12 people
  5. 5. witness the end of IE
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    741 people
  6. 6. Learn Japanese
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    9,719 people
  7. 7. export this data in RDF/XML
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  8. 8. Improve my photography
    587 people
  9. 9. Live less inside my own head
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  10. 10. redesign my blog
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  11. 11. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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    5,506 people
  12. 12. Witness the end of Microsoft
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  13. 13. Master PHP
    316 people
  14. 14. Save money
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  15. 15. learn xslt
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  16. 16. Master mathematics
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    13 people
  17. 17. learn scheme
    39 people
  18. 18. Finish what I start
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  19. 19. play the violin again
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    146 people
  20. 20. GHexy
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  21. 21. Contribute to planetmath.org
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    1 person
  22. 22. improve my english
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    1,883 people
  23. 23. improve my German
    484 people
  24. 24. improve my Polish
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    13 people
  25. 25. Improve my French
    1,347 people
  26. 26. learn Russian
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  27. 27. find more time
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  28. 28. convince people to use Jabber for instant messaging
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  29. 29. spread foaf
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  30. 30. Build the Semantic Web
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    82 people
  31. 31. stop getting junk mail
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    26 people
  32. 32. Eat fugu
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  33. 33. Be less of a geek
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  34. 34. Sleep more
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  35. 35. lose weight
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  36. 36. get corrective eye surgery
    176 people
  37. 37. learn romanian
    172 people
  38. 38. fall asleep outside watching the stars with someone i care about
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witness the end of IE (read all 2 entries…)
Explorer Destroyer 3 years ago

Last month come up with 2 pleasant surprises:

  • As a consequence of the first point I am seriously considering using the scripts of Explorer Destroyer to achieve the goal of less than 25% of IE users on my site.

The script is still a little bit too intrusive and I don’t want in any way make the Web surfing unpleasant for those users who freely chose to use IE: they have as much right to use IE as I have to use Firefox. However I would like to “rescue” those newbies that doesn’t know that there are other explorers beyond IE and I really don’t like to twitch my pages in order to work around IE’s bugs.



Learn Japanese
Stop wasting time 3 years ago

To learn (or better to learn again, since I already took a few Japanese lessons, before being obliged to quit for lack of time) is on my “tomorrow I begin” list since at least six months, but I was too lazy to do it.

So I decided to finally find a Japanese teacher in Nancy . Hopefully I will be able to assist to lessons in my University , but I wouldn’t regret to spend a couple of hundred of euros to learn this beautiful language (and if I must pay, I am more motivated :-) ).



stop getting junk mail
SA-Exim: bye bye spam 3 years ago

Three months ago I ended the contract with my hosting provider (they really pissed me off), so I decided to put a server in my appartement. I took a while before I was able to buy a new desktop , because I was waiting for my Ph.D. grant to arrive. But it was worth the shot: since then I don’t have spam anymore.

I use exim4 as the mail server with the SA-Exim plugin and since sa-exim works at MTA level, spammers cannot tell if their spam was filtered or the mailbox doesn’t exist, so the address is progressively deleted from the spam lists (well, actually they could know, since “User uknown” is rejected after the RCPT command, while the spam is rejected after DATA. Hopefully not all spambots are so smart: some of them are even so dumb as to send commands before the server has time to answer and this fact is a breach of SMTP protocol and implies the shutdown of the connection).

Another hack I can use now (and I couldn’t with my previous ISP) is to use unique e-mail addresses . Obviously a spammer can steal a user+unique_id@example.org address and try to send spam to user@example.org. The countermeasure to this behaviour would be to invalidate all user@example.org addresses and accept mail only for user+unique_id@example.org (and put the list of acceptable unique_id into users home directories).



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