Last week i had my first encounter with a person who was unable to read an email which used Usenet-style quoting. For those not familiar with the whole debate, which probably started probably before i first encountered the Internet (way back in 1989), the following references offer some insight:
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I have to deal with a lot of different software in my various roles. Lots of it is good, but there's always the odd software package that makes me want to run ahead of it with a loud, clanging bell, shouting "Unclean! Unclean!" Here are a few such packages which i've encountered lately:...
I've had a few problems over recent weeks on both Ubuntu karmic (9.10) and lucid (10.04) whereby web pages built on Flash player (such as ABC iView) would display a large error screen proclaiming that Flash player had crashed. I first saw it on my son's ThinkPad X31 which i had upgraded to lucid very shortly after it was released, and assumed that it was just part and parcel of the new release, and that the bug would be fixed shortly....
It seems that "customise and buy" for ThinkPad X series is too much to ask of Lenovo's web site at the moment... :-) ...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has some interesting comments on the repercussions of Apple's iPad. What seems ironic to me is that when Palm stopped innovating (shortly after their announcement that they were switching to Linux), the PDA market virtually died - smartphones virtually chewed up the market overnight. Now, as a spinoff of Apple's entry into the smartphone market, the PDA market looks set to revive.
Whirlpool are running their yearly broadband survey for the month of January 2010. If you're a broadband user, please participate in their survey - all broadband users in Australia benefit from Whirlpool's great efforts in this area.
I've just been asked to deploy some HP ProCurve 1810G-8 switches (J9449A) into a network environment containing a large number of managed and unmanaged ProCurve switches. This network has an existing ProCurve Manager installation which controls all policies for existing managed ProCurve switches. Whilst on paper the switch looks pretty good, it is not really an appropriate product for medium-sized business networks....
Project Honeypot just published a report of their experience in processing 1 billion spam messages. Highlights for the impatient:
Novell's SMT (Subscription Management Tool) is a software update tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE. I've had the dubious honour of working with it over the last few months on a client site. These notes were compiled as a result of installing SMT on three different servers, and interacting with various people in the Novell forums, especially the novell.support.sles.updates forum.
For a long time, i've told my clients and friends that the best way to make a password is to write a short sentence or phrase. A recent study linked from Slashdot IT reinforces this....
