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Earlier this year I posted about the FCCs broadcast flag for digital television programming. In a nutshell, the FCC mandated that a broadcast flag accompany every digital television broadcast. The flag would have prevented certain programs from being recorded.

Apparently the Appeals court said

“We can find nothing in the statute, its legislative history, the applicable case law, or agency practice indicating that Congress meant to provide the sweeping authority the FCC now claims over receiver apparatus,”

BBC reports on it here.

James Mikusi writes about using MRTG with SpamAssassin in this Month’s Sys Admin Magazine. He uses MRTG to graph output from SpamAssassin. Jim provides excellent technical detail on getting these open-source solutions working together. He writes

I hope these graphs can be used to show management and politicians how badly some of us are plagued by spam and thereby losing productivity. Managers and politicians may be more receptive to statistical complaints, graphs, and pie charts than other forms of information.

Read the entire article.