I've had an annoying person trying to relay through my sendmail mail server for the past few weeks:

I keep getting this in my logwatch daily email:
"Relaying denied:
From [222.101.92.32] to smtphunter33@daum.net: 2 Time(s)"

It also comes from various IP addresses starting with 222.101.92.x and always smtphunter 33 at daum dot net

I've configured my firewalll to drop packets (and log) from these IP addresses - hopefully this will make him give up.

And I'm not the only one that's been hit...

After a trip to www.bathstore.com , in Edinburgh, I think we've establised we can fit a walk in shower in the bathroom.



More info here.

Is there no hope for my Lexmark 5250 Scanner?

sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x043d [Lexmark], product=0x0093 [Lexmark 5200 Series]) at libusb:001:003
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.


However no device is listed:
find /dev -name "*scan*"
... nothing is returned.

My scanner is listed on sane-project.org as being not supported. :-(

I've finally got my scans done of the drawings done in 1964, when our house was converted into two flats.

They came from a bad photocopy of old drawings, but you get the idea:
1964 Drawings

Also got my central heating plans online, looking at them now I would probably try to go through less walls. There's also going to be a radiator in the kitchen too. Just need to get BTU calculations online too.
Central Heating

I've been discussing with a plumber the possiblity of using pipes from www.polypipe.com to put under floor central heating in the bathroom.

I've been looking for a cross platform CVS client.

After following the links on www.cvs-home.org I found my way to TkCVS which is a TCL/TK graphical interface to CVS.

The big benefit here is that it's cross platfrom and ustilises whatever command line cvs you have installed.

I'll use Windows XP as my example.

What do you need?
1. TkCVS - https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkcvs/
2. Tcl/Tk - http://tcl.sourceforge.net/
3. CVS - cvs-1-11-14.zip

So that gives you cvs.exe (from cvs-1-11-14.zip), a Tcl/Tk interpreter and the graphical interface to CVS - i.e TkCVS.

I installed the downloads to the following directiories:
1. TkCVS -> C:tkcvs
2. CVS -> C:cvs
3. Tcl/Tk -> C:tcl (the default)

All we need now is a little batch file to allow me to do a "cvs login" and then start the graphical interface - I called mine go.bat and I saved it in C:tkcvs

REM This is the pserver method of connecting
REM :pserver:[your cvs username]@[your cvs server/host]:[path to your repository on the server]
set CVSROOT=:pserver:sar@cvs:/memex/repository

REM the cvs.exe needs to be in the PATH
set PATH=%PATH%;C:/tkcvs/cvs

REM Prompt the user for thier password
cvs login

REM Start the GUI
C:/tkcvs/bin/tkcvs.tcl

Okay so Tk doesn't give the most polished looking GUI, but at least it's cross platform.
This allows CVS users to work with the same interface on any platform.

The setup process is even easier on linux/unix/mac - just download TkCVS and off your go. Most distros of Linux come with Tcl/Tk and CVS by default.

A screen shot of what the CVS log looks like: