Posts by Blane Bramble 256 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007
The point is the text in the email is written backwards (so scanners don't see normal keywords), but the text is wrapped in a block that tails the browser/email client that the text should be rendered right-to-left, so when it is displayed it looks normal to you, so something like (tags made up, not part of any standard I am aware of):
In the message
<encoding:ltr>!yenom dneS</encoding>
But on your screen:
Send money!
True, but it would be a matter of minutes to set up a backup (store and forward) mail server to spool the email in the meantime, whilst rebuilding whatever needed doing for the pop/imap cluster - and it would prevent any further loss of email. Presuming that Virgin Media already have secondary, tertiary MX servers, it *should* just be a matter of a dummy primary MX record and then adding the secondary record, leaving it to spool until the primary MX is ready and running. But what do I know?
@Matt Bryant - there are a number of serious flaws in this law as first drafted. I have not yet checked the passed amendments to see if they clear these up, but on an initial reading it seems not (you have read both the draft and amendments before commenting on whether you are for or against this, haven't you?). As currently passed (my interpretation), if the government decides to investigate you or someone you have communicated with, and then you ask me to troubleshoot server logs for an unrelated issue (I sent an email but it wasn't delivered, perhaps) I will be unable to assist you - in fact it will be a criminal offence for me to do so.
It doesn't even have Modules, FFS.
Modules are surely the function of the linker? Or did you mean namespaces?
21st century: Programming applications "to the bare metal" and other retardations of the conservative or ignorants.
How else do you program your security layers and OS? If they are not "to the bare metal" then what are they running on, and how do you write and secure that? It isn't turtles all the way down here you know.
You also need a very large team, lots of time and lots of money in that case. Nope, you won't get them.
Rubbish. Writing bullet proof assembler just requires sane coding practises and decent documentation of entry and exit requirements etc.
Seriously, WTF? I anything being tought in schools today?
Very little, however it seems I have self-taught myself more than you.
Take a look at Musaic as well - they're a UK based startup in the Sonos space - they're currently raising funds on Kickstarter for the first models:
http://www.musaic.com
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1112831839/musaic-wireless-hifi-music-system-your-music-your
Before anyone else points it out, yes it is my brother's company.
As others have stated, without details of the current system and the new system no-one can offer any detailed advice. If both systems support IMAP then you can use various imapsync scripts to copy email from one system to another. With the correct scripts and users set up at the destination end this can then be an iterative process where you do an initial sync (which might take hours/days depending on the amount of storage and the network bandwidth/disk bandwidth available). Then you can re-sync several times to bring the new system in-line with the old until you are ready to switch over.
The problem is, if anything, worse for the big email providers, who have plenty of users who will incorrectly classify email as spam just because they don't want it anymore, don't understand it, or confuse the "report spam" button with the "delete" button (both make the email go away after all).
As part of the email feedback loops we have set up with the big companies, I regularly see people reporting personal responses to questions and web forms they have submitted reported as spam - i.e. "please supply me with this information" -> "here is your information" <spam>
Do you want to play with virtualisation in order to learn about the guest OS's (the ones you will run inside the Hypervisor), or to learn about how to run virtual loads (i.e. how to use the Hypervisor) - if the former then you can pick any Hypervisor - either a built in to an OS one such as Hyper-V on Windows or KVM on Linux, or even VMWare Player etc. and just build a machine with decent resources - any 64 bit processor with the relevant virtualisation extensions will do. You can play in as littles as 4GB if you only need one VM at a time (or several tiny ones), but 8 or 16GB is more realistic.
If you want to learn about Hypervisors, then the choice depends on what you want to learn - for the corporate markets then it's probably Hyper-V or ESXi (which has a free version), possibly XenServer (also has a free version). The free versions are generally missing some of the high-end tools, but enough to get started. If you want to learn from a hosting/ISP point of view, then look at offerings such as CloudStack, OpenStack etc - there are development environments that will run on a single machine for test purposes, but these are generally aimed at a multi-machine setup (storage servers, compute nodes, cloud controllers etc.).
Or, if you have the time, and far better if you do, try all of them. Get to grips, work out which interests you the most and does what you're looking for.
Have fun. Here's a beer to drink whilst waiting for installs to complete!
@AC 19:49
How is your comment any different - or do you think jumping in to defend a phone brand is somehow not a pathetic life?
Me, I have a phone, it's an HTC. Other members of my family have iPhones. It's called personal preference and choice, but then as a veteran/survivor of the home computer wars, maybe I'm just jaded.
@Chris_J - there is a bigger problem - those few, usually smaller, ISPs that provide a better product at a reasonable price tend to be successful for a while, and then are bought up by one of the big ISPs to grow the user base (usually because the small one has a technical user base who understand they get what they pay for and therefore it has lower churn than the industry standard). The result is one less option for those of us who are happy to pay a bit more for a better service.
If Tony Smith really had a ZX81 then he would know that once you had exhausted the joys of the included "1K Games Tape 1", there was little else to do but start reading the BASIC manual and learning how to program the thing.
Depends on your definition of device I guess. If you mean peripheral, it's debatable (although Linux generally, in my experience, supports more hardware "out of the box" than Windows does - I have to dig around for device disks much more often with Windows, sometimes just to get the disk controller recognised). If you are talking about devices you can install the OS on, then, hell yes, Linux wipes the floor with Windows.
Hi Trevor, I feel your pain regarding the config files - although you should slap your developers for using short tags. The most important rule is *always* back up /etc - even if you don't want to use it directly, then you can restore it (/root/oldetc perhaps) and manually check/compare things at the very least... been there, done that.
Or take your console away with you to a holiday home that has no landline, no tv signal, no phone signal, but you might like to watch some dvds or play a few games some evenings.
Or maybe your console isn't connected and on all the time, and you just want to play a few games, but the broadband is out and you haven't turned the console on all week.
etc. etc.
I have had both an original Desire and now a One X - both decent phones, but HTC has a few problems. The most important ones from my perspective are:
Too many models, with too confusing a line up.
A habit of dumping the current latest and greatest phone (and its updates) for a new one too quickly - well within a phones contract lifetime.
HTC Sense - dump it, give us plain Android.
Carriers delaying (the already delayed because of Sense) updates, or simply not providing them at all.
Give me regular updates and a bog-standard Android and I'd be happy. Yes, I know about Cyanogen etc. but this is about what HTC get wrong, not someone else gets right...
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