So, does anyone know of a company that just sells SMTP access?
fastmail will let you use their smtp server for a one time fee of $14.95. which also gets you access to an imap account, web based mail, super good spam filtering, and some other stuff.
i primarily use them for the smtp server nowdays though.
and if you sign up and are feeling generous, you can use "jwilson" as the referrer code and i'll get a kickback of a $1 or something. woo!:)
you may want to go read their official support forums, with regular appearances from the actual developers/owners of the company, to get a feel for what they offer/how they operate, etc.
regardless of the smtp server, their web based mail is super nice. go tell your hotmail using friends to sign up to the free fastmail account (sans-smtp access) instead... fastmail will happily suck mail from existing hotmail accounts, so it makes the transition a bit easier.
I'm considering getting a GameCube Zelda promo pack thingy for a friends birthday. I assumed it was a limited offer, and asked the shop assistant if they'd have any left in a months time. She laughed at me and said not to worry about availability...
They're currently about 130 - if they dropped to 99 i'd be there in a flash.
So, the question is, are industry watchers expecting the price to be cut to shift some of the back-stock?...j
Two days ago I got a spam from a local (London, UK) company trying to get me to go to their event. It had a 378Kb attachment to it. Thanks.
The kicker was that the disclaimer said it was impossible to unsubscribe, as it was a carefully crafted one-time mailing list. I imagine i'll be on all future carefully crafted one-time mailing lists for them in the future too.
The email was sent with a from line of "[something]@noreply.com" or similar (which breaches their ISPs AUP), and if I was to contact them via their email address listed on their website, by their logic i'd have contacted them, thus allowing them to continue to spam me (since we'd then have an existing relationship).
So - best course of action? The Advertising Standards Authority, whose standards they ahve breached, seems to be a toothless tiger set up by the industry to pay lip-service to the general public (any ruling against an advertiser seems to result in a ruling of "we advised them to contact us in future before undertaking a similar campaign"). I'm not aware of any specific legislation to stop this (although i'd like to know where they got my email address from. Should I unleash the Data Protection Act?).
So, what's the best way to hit back? Complain to the ISP? File an ultimatetly useless complaint to the ASA? What?
RyanAir, a budget airline based in Ireland, and probably easyJet's biggest rival, often gives away tickets. RyanAir will often effectively give tickets away (well, sell them for 1p - I think there's insurance implications if you actually give the tickets away) - it's very very common to get a flighr for around £10 (plus tax). An ex-flatmate used to keep an eye out for the super-discounted tickets from London to northern Italy so she could visit her parents.
RyanAir is making big fat profits despite all of the above...
Besides explaining the joke you so obviously missed, it is an excellent book about mathmatics generally - and this is from someone who detests maths. I only wish this was around when I was doing maths in high school and i'd been forced to read it. Oh well...
If Apple or someone made a (software, I pressume) mod to the iPod to allow for pitch control) and they already have the jog dial, which could come inhandy), i'd buy two without a moments thought.
Interestingly enough, this same method can be used to show that ground safety crews at airports (fire trucks, ambulances, etc.) are NOT a good investment, but most people would flip out if these measures were stopped....
Therefore it is a good investment. Having those services on hand reassures the travelling public that it is safe to fly, and puts bums on seats. Thus earning money. Huzzah!
Are there any alternatives to the colorconsoles.com people listed above? My flatmate promises he'll get a PS2 as soon as he can get his hands on a white one (yup, it's a fashion accessory), and Sony Europe hasn't released their limited edition yet (or, alternatively they have, and we didn't notice).
If there's someone doing good case kits, and i'm sure there must be, i'd appreciate the linkage.
"This is especially true here in the UK where free dial up internet access appeared, then promptly disappeared. Now a similar thing seems to be happening to broadband. Rather than becoming more accessible to the average man in the street, companies seem to be raising prices and limiting signups right, left and centre. "
I thought broadband prices are coming down in the UK? With the recent introduction of the "wires-only" ADSL service, and the lower wholesale charge for this service, compared to the initial engineer-comes-to-visit deal, there are some good deals coming out.
Indeed, Pipex has just announced a sub-£30 (inc VAT) home service. For a little bit extra, there are better deals out there for the geekier potential broadband customer...
The Daily Telegraph is also reporting that BT will announce, later this week, that the wholesale cost of ADSL will be cut by 50% as ADSL take-up rates in the UK are well below other areas of Europe.
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Depends on your definition of fun. Personally I get a lot of satisfaction/enjoyment/warm-fuzzies from building stuff that people use.
As i'm sure others do too.
If enough people make enough noise about wating package X, someone will go write it. I promise.
From my limited knowledge of Royal Mail, these stamps, while valid for postage, wont be widely distributed.
Most people buy their stamps here in little books of between 4 and 10 stamps - these are almost always your standard orange/blue first/second class stamps.
I'll pop 'round to my local Post Office in a few minutes and specifically request some of these special issue stamps, and, with a fair degree of luck, they may have some in stock.
All countries produce special stamps that primarily intended for collection. Indeed, I believe some small pacific island states use stamps as a major source of revenue.
More interesting than Royal Mail producing some funky stamps is the claims that they're about to lay off up to 15,000 workers.
And why not click a damn ad banner once in a while? Right or wrong, ad revenue is still pretty much generated on per-click, not per-impression.
I thought it was all moving to "per-action" - ie, someone clicks on a banner from site A to site B. Looks around site B, and then does something specific (registers, buys a widget, applies for a second mortgage, etc).
free2air.org provides 802.11b network access in the East End of London. They're not leeching anything (erm, but I do - I get my bandwidth from them)... In fact, they're one of the few organisations openly providing wireless access.
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fastmail will let you use their smtp server for a one time fee of $14.95. which also gets you access to an imap account, web based mail, super good spam filtering, and some other stuff.
i primarily use them for the smtp server nowdays though.
and if you sign up and are feeling generous, you can use "jwilson" as the referrer code and i'll get a kickback of a $1 or something. woo! :)
you may want to go read their official support forums, with regular appearances from the actual developers/owners of the company, to get a feel for what they offer/how they operate, etc.
regardless of the smtp server, their web based mail is super nice. go tell your hotmail using friends to sign up to the free fastmail account (sans-smtp access) instead... fastmail will happily suck mail from existing hotmail accounts, so it makes the transition a bit easier.
huh? says who? i thought it was a network of networks.
some of those networks most definately have controls/policies against free speech.
I'm considering getting a GameCube Zelda promo pack thingy for a friends birthday. I assumed it was a limited offer, and asked the shop assistant if they'd have any left in a months time. She laughed at me and said not to worry about availability...
...j
They're currently about 130 - if they dropped to 99 i'd be there in a flash.
So, the question is, are industry watchers expecting the price to be cut to shift some of the back-stock?
Because the COPPA doesn't apply in almost city in the world?
Last paragraph is very interesting. Thanks for that.
(And, gee, my original message was a complete mess, wasn't it? I'm normally a little more easy to comprehend than that...)
Two days ago I got a spam from a local (London, UK) company trying to get me to go to their event. It had a 378Kb attachment to it. Thanks.
The kicker was that the disclaimer said it was impossible to unsubscribe, as it was a carefully crafted one-time mailing list. I imagine i'll be on all future carefully crafted one-time mailing lists for them in the future too.
The email was sent with a from line of "[something]@noreply.com" or similar (which breaches their ISPs AUP), and if I was to contact them via their email address listed on their website, by their logic i'd have contacted them, thus allowing them to continue to spam me (since we'd then have an existing relationship).
So - best course of action? The Advertising Standards Authority, whose standards they ahve breached, seems to be a toothless tiger set up by the industry to pay lip-service to the general public (any ruling against an advertiser seems to result in a ruling of "we advised them to contact us in future before undertaking a similar campaign"). I'm not aware of any specific legislation to stop this (although i'd like to know where they got my email address from. Should I unleash the Data Protection Act?).
So, what's the best way to hit back? Complain to the ISP? File an ultimatetly useless complaint to the ASA? What?
Here's the article from Wired News. Doesn't mention figurine sales, but they average 300 t-shirt sales a day, apparently. Wow.
I always wondered who was behind Homestar Runner. Nice to know it is (/was, perhaps) a couple of guys in their basement kinda deal.
I got a replacement keyboard for my iBook about 2 days before the warranty ran out.
"The letters on the keys are rubbing off!"
"And?"
"It doesn't look nice"
"And?"
"Design is one of your unique selling points..."
"Oh, alright then"
This keyboard has lasted much better. Either the first one was just not up to scratch, or they coat the keys with thicker varnishy stuff now.
RyanAir is making big fat profits despite all of the above...
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Besides explaining the joke you so obviously missed, it is an excellent book about mathmatics generally - and this is from someone who detests maths. I only wish this was around when I was doing maths in high school and i'd been forced to read it. Oh well...
If Apple or someone made a (software, I pressume) mod to the iPod to allow for pitch control) and they already have the jog dial, which could come inhandy), i'd buy two without a moments thought.
As I suspect lots of other people would.
Is anyone working on this?
Therefore it is a good investment. Having those services on hand reassures the travelling public that it is safe to fly, and puts bums on seats. Thus earning money. Huzzah!
It all comes down to "power consumption, size, reliability and ease of administration", apparently.
And the marketing people at RLX Technologies should be shot for not having a press release up for this, as it's all based on their product...
Are there any alternatives to the colorconsoles.com people listed above? My flatmate promises he'll get a PS2 as soon as he can get his hands on a white one (yup, it's a fashion accessory), and Sony Europe hasn't released their limited edition yet (or, alternatively they have, and we didn't notice).
If there's someone doing good case kits, and i'm sure there must be, i'd appreciate the linkage.
didn't zk base themselves in canada because of more favourable laws?
what's the situation like up there?
"This is especially true here in the UK where free dial up internet access appeared, then promptly disappeared. Now a similar thing seems to be happening to broadband. Rather than becoming more accessible to the average man in the street, companies seem to be raising prices and limiting signups right, left and centre. "
I thought broadband prices are coming down in the UK? With the recent introduction of the "wires-only" ADSL service, and the lower wholesale charge for this service, compared to the initial engineer-comes-to-visit deal, there are some good deals coming out.
Indeed, Pipex has just announced a sub-£30 (inc VAT) home service. For a little bit extra, there are better deals out there for the geekier potential broadband customer...
The Daily Telegraph is also reporting that BT will announce, later this week, that the wholesale cost of ADSL will be cut by 50% as ADSL take-up rates in the UK are well below other areas of Europe.
Depends on your definition of fun. Personally I get a lot of satisfaction/enjoyment/warm-fuzzies from building stuff that people use.
As i'm sure others do too.
If enough people make enough noise about wating package X, someone will go write it. I promise.
But they're allowed to do this, right? What's the problem?
From my limited knowledge of Royal Mail, these stamps, while valid for postage, wont be widely distributed.
Most people buy their stamps here in little books of between 4 and 10 stamps - these are almost always your standard orange/blue first/second class stamps.
I'll pop 'round to my local Post Office in a few minutes and specifically request some of these special issue stamps, and, with a fair degree of luck, they may have some in stock.
All countries produce special stamps that primarily intended for collection. Indeed, I believe some small pacific island states use stamps as a major source of revenue.
More interesting than Royal Mail producing some funky stamps is the claims that they're about to lay off up to 15,000 workers.
...j
And why not click a damn ad banner once in a while? Right or wrong, ad revenue is still pretty much generated on per-click, not per-impression.
I thought it was all moving to "per-action" - ie, someone clicks on a banner from site A to site B. Looks around site B, and then does something specific (registers, buys a widget, applies for a second mortgage, etc).
...j
I've never, ever needed anything provided by a website.
/. rather than go look at the sky (or similar)?
Then what are you doing here? How come you decided to post to
The web must be filling some need for you, or you'd find something better to do with your time...
...j
free2air.org provides 802.11b network access in the East End of London. They're not leeching anything (erm, but I do - I get my bandwidth from them)... In fact, they're one of the few organisations openly providing wireless access.
I'd be that SMSing person...
We're juggling like made here at the moment. Just opening up the firewall a touch so we can move the database on to a beefier machine.
I guess we'll add to our woes by posting some of the traffic graphs once it's calmed down a little.
We're running a similar thing at newsfilter, although from a slightly more UK perspective.