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  1. Re:Damn. Wish we had that over here... on Ditching your Landline Just Got Easier · · Score: 1

    Orange have a free service called Everyphone (i think...) which allows you to redirect your mobile to another number. As long as it's to a landline or another Orange phone, it doesn't cost anything.

  2. Re:Ambulance drivers don't go full speed on Traffic Light Control For The Masses · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was sitting in my village pub (UK) one evening. It's on a narrow road, and silly people sometimes park on the wrong side of the road, making it difficult to pass. A fireman walked in the door and announced that they had a large truck to get through. If the illegally parked cars weren't moved by their owners in 30 seconds, they would be moved by force (read: driven into by a large red vehicle). I've never seen people move so fast...

  3. Re:Paraniod? on Patching Paranoia - How Fast Do You Patch? · · Score: 3, Informative

    SUS allows you to approve a patch before distributing it. In practice, this means applying it to your test lab (or test cupboard in my case) before approving it for everyone else.

  4. Jobs on top of gates on Torvalds the "5th Most-Powerful Man in Tech" · · Score: 2, Funny
    Steve Jobs (1) who comes out on top of Bill Gates (2)
    Great, that's just the mental image I wanted before dinner. Thank you very much.
  5. Re:What's wrong with domain forwarding? on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 1

    Note, however, that they do get to keep the from address that you send them.

  6. Re:What's wrong with domain forwarding? on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 2, Informative
    So if you mistype an email address, they will get the email and keep it and you won't get a bounce.
    Wrong.

    To start with, only A records resolve to the Verisign servers. MX records don't resolve to anything.
    However, most mail servers will try the A record if the MX record doesn't exist. Verisign have set up a server running Postfix which responds with: 550: Client host rejected: The domain you are trying to send mail to does not exist.
    At this point, the mail server sends a bounce message and does not pass your e-mail to Verisign.

    This is still broken, bad, wrong and evil, but they are not intercepting your mail. Yet.
  7. Re:Mobile Phones in the air on Wireless Computing and Airplanes? · · Score: 1

    That stuff about smoking causing cancer is a lie. My uncle smoked three packs a day for 60 years and never even coughed.

  8. Re:imap is a hog on The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch · · Score: 2, Informative
    telnet %mailserver% 110
    user %username%
    pass %password%
    retr 5345
    quit