Spam-Be-Gone!

Well after a carefull process I turned on my spam filters completely earlier today. So far we have a 100% success rate. No false-positives and no missed spam. Horay for Paul Graham and his Bayesian filter technique. Maybe he wasn't the originator of the idea but it was his article that started me on the path. I'm using SpamProbe v0.9d and I really like it! Another reason in a long list to try and learn lisp or, dare I say, even Arc.

Here for posterity is my latest goofy project idea. Create a bootable lisp machine using cheap older hardware. Like what Chuck Moore did with colorForth. I've tried running colorForth, but so far haven't found a good box. I have the source, but it's all in x86 assembler and it's been 15 years since I've worked with that.

I think hardware and compilers have come far enough that I'm thinking of using C to create the lisp core. Use the MBR to load the core and then use BIOS functions to handle the display, disk and keyboard. That should be enough to bootstrap a better system as I write the interfaces for different hardware. Of course, to make this happen first I have to grok lisp.

Now I'm going to go tackle hollyqueen and see if she'll give me some sugar.