This is a ROR formatted XML document describing the resources of the website http://chris-linfoot.net. For information about the ROR format, go to www.rorweb.com Main Website http://chris-linfoot.net Chris Linfoot\'s Domino blog. IBM, Lotus, Notes, Domino, Spam, Malware Contact Chris Linfoot clinfoot@gmail.com http://chris-linfoot.net Address Birmingham GB Feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChrisLinfoot SiteMap http://chris-linfoot.net/sitemapindex.xml Article http://chris-linfoot.net/fullarchive Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7SFEP5 At the Beeb - UK broadband 'notspots' revealed - another fine, scientific study accurately reported. Around three million homes in the UK have broadband speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mbps) according to research commissioned by the BBC. The ... 2009-05-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7S7KAB I signed an e-Petition over at Number10.gov.uk last year calling on the Prime Minster to stop ISPs from breaching customers privacy via advertising technologies. We petition the Prime Minister to investigate the Phorm technology and if found to breach UK ... 2009-05-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7S6ASM Someone has me on their go ahead and spam list and has sent me a message about their new motion picture although I have no recollection of opting in to receive this stuff. No matter. I'll just click this here unsubscribe ... 2009-05-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7RVKQV Dear owner of chris-linfoot.net, I noticeded [sic] that your domain "chris-linfoot.net" expires in a few weeks, which means that it is going to be publicly available soon. I'd like to buy this domain name before it expires. I assume that you ... 2009-05-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7RTFU8 Security Certificate expiration in Lotus Domino on May 18th 2009 This note contains links (URLs [1]) to technical support documents (technotes [1]) related to an issue affecting IBM Lotus Domino customers. You are receiving this notification because you ... 2009-05-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7RHBYV Or perhaps, in the Internet era, the cliché should be rewritten the Amazon voucher's in the email. Several years ago, I seem to recall in his book The Road Ahead, Bill Gates predicted that in future advertisers would select targets and pay them directly to ... 2009-04-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7QWHP2 Remember this? In those rare and all too brief lulls in the otherwise incessant media coverage of the inexplicable evaporation of global capital, at least one other story has actually had some press. I refer, of course, to the British government plan to ... 2009-04-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7QWCQV It's been upgraded from Ami ... 2009-04-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7QRAVL (Thanks, ... 2009-04-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7QPBWD Most readers of this blog will long have been familiar with the conundrum that is IPv6. IPv6, the new Internet protocol, solves a number of issues with the existing IPv4 protocol of which the most significant is the imminent exhaustion of the IPv4 address ... 2009-04-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7QJEF7 British readers please help out by signing this Number10.gov.uk petition. Thanks. ↑ Grab this Headline ... 2009-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7QHLSN Word to the wise. Don't let SWMBO use your Last.fm account. There might be embarrassing ... 2009-03-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7QGLZ8 Who modified my view format? Whoever did it may as well own up right now. I can wait all night if necessary. It's your own time you're wasting, you know. (Thanks, ... 2009-03-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q9EJ6 That's not a ... 2009-03-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q7E9W Graham Cluley at Sophos asks the question "Did BBC break the law by using a botnet to send spam?" The Computer Misuse Act makes it an offence in the United Kingdom to access another person's computer, or alter data on their computer, without the ... 2009-03-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q7E73 (Thanks, ... 2009-03-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q4C49 If you liked yesterday's dialog du jour, you'll love this one. (Thanks, ... 2009-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q4BUH From a recent phish: True to our promise to keep your internet banking account safe and secure from fraudsters,our online security team has discovered some foreign ip Log Ons to your account from the following IPs : 812.164.72.212 ,195.93.21.10, ... 2009-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q3GGB (Thanks, ... 2009-03-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q2GPL ... 2009-03-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7Q2DCP British readers, please support LDV by signing this petition at the Number10.gov.uk web site. Thanks See also: Picture of the ... 2009-03-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7PUH39 I am pleased to inform you that today, March 5, 2008 Emerald Who's Who for Executives and Professionals has selected you as potential candidate into our organization to represent  Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom. Your professional experience has ... 2009-03-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7PSDPN Over at ZDNet - URL rewriting can help thwart Web app attacks Attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (XSRF), and open-redirect phishing are routinely propagated through malicious hyperlinks sent in e-mail messages. (If you’re ... 2009-03-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7PKRYX See also: LDV ... 2009-02-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7NWTM2 I was saddened to hear on the BBC Last Word programme last Friday that John Martyn died on the 29th of ... 2009-02-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7NRCAX Posit: Most Internet abuse goes unreported and unnoticed. OK. That may or may not be true, I hear you say, but why is it important? After all, your own systems are properly secured, aren't they? There's nobody abusing your infrastructure to send spam, ... 2009-01-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7NNCPD Hi, I am an MBA student completing my final dissertation.   The topic of my dissertation is “Is Service Oriented Architecture the Panacea for the Modern Enterprise” and this researches if the reality of adopting a SOA approach leads to the significant ... 2009-01-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7NJFF4 The Conficker worm - Autorun meets social engineering and even Vista and Windows 7 are vulnerable. That same worm is now reputed to be the one causing the havoc in the MoD's networks. Perhaps something to do with the generally parlous state of security at ... 2009-01-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7NGFMA At the Beeb - MoD probes virus security breach A computer virus is continuing to affect the Ministry of Defence's systems but it insists no classified or personal data is under threat. Up to 70 sites, including several Royal Navy ships and RAF bases, ... 2009-01-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7N7M63 Sunday morning. SWMBO is in the living room watching one of those programmes where people sit on a sofa and read the Sunday papers, presumably to save us the bother of reading them ourselves. I'm in the kitchen making breakfast. Weekend breakfasts at casa ... 2009-01-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7N5CBP Via CircleID, here's news of a rather disturbing development - Police set to step up hacking of home PCs THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a ... 2009-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7N4EMQ Try this, now that you have installed a copy of the Windows 7 public ... 2009-01-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7N4C9E Try this. Spend a few years writing critical articles about one particular software vendor (it should go without saying, in addition to articles on many other topics). Write one guardedly neutral article about that same software vendor. Acquire a new ... 2009-01-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7N3ETC Plus ça ... 2009-01-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7N2H3D As you may know by now, the imminent Windows 7 public beta was leaked a few days ago and may now be found with relative ease via BitTorrent and on some other download services. One or two reviewers have got their hands on it and have started to offer their ... 2009-01-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7MUHLG ... or so begins the rather alarming headline over at ZDNet - SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers ... 2008-12-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7MLCK4 In case you missed it, a company called Telnic has recently launched a new top level domain. Unlike every other new TLD that has been launched over the past few years, .tel appears to offer something new. It's not just another way of extracting money from ... 2008-12-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7MCJXN Microsoft has proudly announced a raft of new ways to frustrate users and lower productivity with its new version of its celebrated Concentration Breaker software. The company’s stated aim was to build upon the success of previous productivity blockers, ... 2008-12-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7M5C9J I started to follow Stephen after I read about his BlackBerry Storm review and I'm so glad I did. Poor old Stephen's been tryng to review some software that only runs on Windows, so he needs a PC. He's been having a spot of bother with Vista, for ... 2008-12-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7M3QFR ... 2008-12-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7M2C9L There's a bit of a buzz around GFC at the moment and quite a few Domino bloggers are integrating it into their sites, or are at least attempting to do so. Here are a few things you probably should know if attempting this ... 2008-12-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LYEK3 Quick heads up for you. "load compact -c -i" ignores all errors without warning causing database corruption in Lotus Domino 8.0.2 (Thanks, Bart) (This post also available in ... 2008-12-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LYDQJ This video explains that test I posted yesterday. The use of Google Friend Connect is currently by invitation only, but you can register interest by clicking the Sign up for the preview release button at this page. Friend Connect inverts the usual ... 2008-12-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LXNAJ This test has been completed and the widget moved to a side ... 2008-12-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LXC3N I spotted this on Twitter yesterday evening. Nothing like being given a new IP range to migrate to from your hosting provider, only to find out that it was previously used by a ... 2008-12-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LWC4W Dear Costumer, Halifax is constantly working to increase security for all Online Banking users. To ensure the integrity of our online payment system, we ... blah blah blah ... cos-tum-er n One that makes or supplies costumes, as for plays or ... 2008-12-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LTCLU Some of you may recognise that subject as the opening phrase of John's gospel from the latin vulgate translation of the Bible, which dates from the early fifth century ... 2008-11-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LTCHQ Hi, clinfoot. Stephen Fry (stephenfry) is now following your updates on Twitter. Check out Stephen Fry's profile here:  http://twitter.com/stephenfry Best, Twitter OK, he's only following me because I followed him. I don't want to miss ... 2008-11-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LSEGS I'm sure that you remember the McColo shutdown, which led directly to a significant drop in worldwide spam volumes. At the time I noted a drop in attempts to deliver spam here, though it was a much smaller drop than others had suggested it might be. In ... 2008-11-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LSDHG I was reminded the other day of a programming language which was briefly popular in the early 80s, the heyday of the valley ... 2008-11-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LRKTC Have you ever wondered why it is that apparent phishing emails sometimes appear as raw HTML? Well I have, and curiosity finally got the better of me so I decided to take a few minutes to delve into one recent ... 2008-11-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LRDSL At the end of a piece on the Today programme this morning, examining whether banks are lending to small businesses, as they claim they are, or are not, as some of their customers claim, Evan Davis offers a range of possible explanations... One final ... 2008-11-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LQEAD Looking for a Christmas stocking filler for a loved ... 2008-11-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LPEMT Morro is Microsoft's new, free anti-virus offering. Let's hope it works better than ... 2008-11-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LPCD2 This Typealyzer thing tries to work out Myers Briggs type indicators based on writing styles found in ... 2008-11-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LLHJC Last week, some of our customers' accounts were unathourisedly accessed by unknown third party and it was resulted into some incoveniencies with us and customers. As a result of this, We therefore, send this message to notify you of the compulsory account and ... 2008-11-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LLCU7 No PC? A 3270 terminal will do just ... 2008-11-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LKL9F Or is it? If you would prefer not to receive future emails from [redacted], or if you have changed your email address, please reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject field. If I had changed my email address, would I be looking at this email ... 2008-11-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LKD23 I have an email here from a reader in Australia. In my personal email client (which is Mozilla Thunderbird, not Notes) it currently sits at the top of the in-box with all newer email below it. The in-box is sorted in descending order by date, so that new ... 2008-11-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LHLXR I thought they specialised in bacterial infections. You know, like MRSA or C. diff, and yet here we have a very nasty virus outbreak. A computer virus has infected the Barts and The London computer system. The Trust’s well rehearsed emergency procedures ... 2008-11-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LHDK8 Does anyone know of an LCD TV that has decent integrated sound and can be used without an external home cinema system. Home cinema systems are not wife-friendly, but I do like to hear sounds the way they were intended to be heard when watching a ... 2008-11-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LGFHW About 5 days ago an outfit named McColo was disconnected from the Internet when the two ISPs, Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing which had been providing McColo with connectivity, both pulled the plug. McColo was estimated by some to be the source of ... 2008-11-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LGEHZ The Beeb carries a report entitled "UK identities sold for £80 online". Internet fraudsters sell complete financial identities for just £80, according to an online safety group. The details packaged and sold online include names, addresses, ... 2008-11-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LFNXA The words Robert Kilroy Silk do not often find themselves at home in a sentence which also contains the word favourite and yet here they are. I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! may not have started yet but Robert Kilroy-Silk is already favourite to be ... 2008-11-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LDDGU Prince Charles is 60 today and you can hear him * on the Today Programme reciting a list of his 60 presents to mark his 60 years in the style of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire. Chocolate orange, argyle jumpers, anything from Anne Summers... Now ... 2008-11-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LCGQC Microsoft bashing seems to have become far too easy these days with posts like "Microsoft admits to wasting 2 hours a week on upgrades alone!" proving popular with readers over at Planet Lotus, for example. There's no sport in Microsoft bashing ... 2008-11-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LBDZG Why, the security cat, of course! We've finally found the lame excuse reason for the total lack of effort by ISPs globally towards the implementation of IPv6. At vnunet.com we read - ISPs fear IPv6 security threats Over half of internet service ... 2008-11-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LBDP6 No, I'm not talking about those 2,200 job cuts. I'm talking about the broadband upgrade that turned into a ... 2008-11-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LAH6W At the Beeb we read - Study shows how spammers cash in Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study. By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the ... 2008-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LAF5H Hi Chris, Hope you don't mind me introducing myself! I'm from [redacted], a viral video seeding company in London. I noticed that you'd run a video about interactive screens on your site, and thought you might be interested in a video campaign we're ... 2008-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7LADKU Here's the subject line of a recent spam. IT is the modern, fastest and safest way to solve all your male problems. I agree. Men used to waste all of their spare time fiddling with old cars or motorcycles, getting their hands dirty and putting ... 2008-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L8QBT First Born asks - "Dad. Who played the voice of Darth Vader?" "Well, son. It was ... ... 2008-11-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L6LPE Continuing that save Clarkson theme, if you're one of the few that were actually offended then don't get mad. Get even. And, now that you've got that out of your system, can he please keep his job? Top Gear's the only reason I pay the license ... 2008-11-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L6HE8 OK. Jeremy doesn't really need saving. I'm sure he's quite capable of looking after himself. It's just that some MP * named Molesworth has written to the Beeb demanding that Jez be sacked for things he said on last week's Top Gear programme. "Jez ... 2008-11-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L6GHU ... 2008-11-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L5KNE Early evening - looking across the Vltava from Dětský ostrov (Children's Island) towards the Národní Divadlo (National ... 2008-11-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L5CNV I've seen a couple of very similar chain letters recently. The first was reported to me by a user (1) and the second trapped by a mail rule which is designed to stop phish. The gist of the chain letter is below and no, it's not real, so please don't even ... 2008-11-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L2EQM Here's a lucky find. Early last week we were just pottering about at the western end of Karlův most in Prague when we happened upon a little office in a courtyard, where a sign in the window advertised guided tours of the city on Segways. We booked the ... 2008-11-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7L2E89 A couple of stories at Heise On-line caught my eye last ... 2008-11-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KZDPM Window box Fridge magnets seen on a market stall in the old town of ... 2008-11-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KZDKJ At the Beeb - E-mail error ends up on road sign When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office ... 2008-11-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KQHCY Earlier this month, Google announced a new feature for Gmail which they are calling Mail Goggles. When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making ... 2008-10-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KNL6M According to the New York Times: REDMOND, Wash. — In a windowless room on Microsoft’s campus here, T. J. Campana, a cybercrime investigator, connects an unprotected computer running an early version of Windows XP to the Internet. In about 30 seconds the ... 2008-10-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KMLLN RFC821 and its successors define SMTP, the transport mechanism for all Internet email. Similarly, RFC822 and its successors define the standard for Internet email content, often called MIME although MIME encoding is not mandatory - plain text will do ... 2008-10-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KMGGE A Domino server here started an endless crash and restart cycle earlier today, somewhat reminiscent of an HP PC after an XP SP3 ... 2008-10-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KLC9U At ISPreview.co.uk, we read: BT has shockingly confirmed that its new 21st Century Network (21CN) infrastructure does not support the crucial IPv6 protocol, which is kind of important because it's now a well established fact that existing IPv4 addresses ... 2008-10-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KLC5K Header seen in a phish against HSBC over the weekend: X-RBL-Warning: ORDB: "ordb.org was shut down on December 18, 2006. Please remove from your mailserver." The mail server about which ORDB is rightly complaining is yet another one of those ... 2008-10-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KHBA7 Volker links to a page describing some recent trouble with Google Apps. A prolonged, ongoing Gmail outage has some Google Apps administrators pulling their hair out as their end users, including high-ranking executives, complain loudly while they wait for ... 2008-10-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KGHHA In those rare and all too brief lulls in the otherwise incessant media coverage of the inexplicable evaporation of global capital, at least one other story has actually had some press. I refer, of course, to the British government plan to eavesdrop on all ... 2008-10-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KGEAE See also: You've got Royal ... 2008-10-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KESQE ... 2008-10-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KEAWV See also: Two nations divided by a common language Two nations divided by a common language - ... 2008-10-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7KABHK 320,169, according to Wikipedia. And how much money was deposited in Icelandic banks by British local authorities, other public sector bodies and charities? £946.8m, according to the ... 2008-10-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7K7D3Q At ZDNet - The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed IT departments are largely ignoring Vista. In June (18 months after Vista’s launch), Forrester Research reported that just 8.8% of enterprise PCs worldwide were running Vista. Meanwhile, Microsoft ... 2008-10-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JZHCC Bart reminds me that Vint Cerf made a very small media splash last week by opining publicly on the end of IPv4 and the slow take-up of IPv6, which purists like myself like to argue should replace it. Here's the report from our very own The Times, sometime ... 2008-10-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JZH2U At the Beeb we read - Fighting the scourge of scareware Microsoft and Washington State's Attorney General filed lawsuits against scam artists who frighten consumers into buying useless software. "Scareware" merchants are accused of tricking ... 2008-10-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JUBBX Update: Read it before you comment ;-) Dear Friend: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis ... 2008-09-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JQBEB I finally got around to watching that Microsoft commercial which briefly caught the limelight when someone noticed that it was made on a Mac (thanks, Volker). The ad features sound bites from diverse people all claiming to be a PC, and the last such sound ... 2008-09-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JNME7 Credit CrunchTM is made from the dried tears of a thousand sacked investment bankers... More ... 2008-09-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JNE44 ... 2008-09-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JMDCR Volker is always bashing on about Sonos - and with good reason. Sonos is very good stuff. And there's no credible competitor. If you have a lot of digital music, or use Internet radio *, and you want to distribute it around your home, you want to control ... 2008-09-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JJB47 Over at ZDNet, we read: Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional (PDF), The Washington Post ... 2008-09-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JHBSG Volker has been reporting the issue of DRM in the new game from EA, ... 2008-09-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JFCPH ... 2008-09-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JEBPM ... but Bill is not Microsoft. This new Bill and Jerry Show is much better than the first (though I didn't hate that one as much as some people), but neither makes me want to buy Microsoft products, or like Microsoft any better. It's all harmless fun to ... 2008-09-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JDLUM More > (Thanks, ... 2008-09-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JCALV ... Unless you are reading this any time after 07:30 UTC on Wednesday, 10th September 2008 *, in which case the Swiss conspiracy to reduce the universe to strange matter, or to suck us all into a black hole, has failed. No charges are expected to be ... 2008-09-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JBBEG This email just ... 2008-09-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7JBBDZ Here's a little clip captured on someone's mobile 'phone at the weekend, not far from where I ... 2008-09-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J79R2 Here's newsworthy. Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers has been crowned the oddest book title of the past 30 years. In The Bookseller's online poll to find the "Diagram of Diagrams" , Derek Willan's comprehensive record of a sector ... 2008-09-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J79NA I have just posted this over at the Feedburner General Services Google ... 2008-09-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J79ME "Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot..." -- George ... 2008-09-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J69J3 Did Volker or I inadvertently start an anti-Feedburner ... 2008-09-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J69GD A while ago, someone wrote to me asking if I would be interested in selling text link ads on this site. I ignored him and forgot about it until he emailed again last week to remind ... 2008-09-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J69CY ... 2008-09-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J5NNA At ZDNet - Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, ... 2008-09-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J3MPQ This just in - an email promoting the virtue of Extended Validation ... 2008-09-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J39M8 Don't try this at ... 2008-09-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J39FA Volker points out a "show stopper" for Lotus Connections. Once a person is entered into the Connections system they should never be removed. Doing so may invalidate the data's consistency. One or two commenters on Volker's article mention the ... 2008-09-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J39E3 I am hugely indebted to Mark Haller and LogicSpot for taking on hosting of this site for me at very short notice. Thanks, ... 2008-09-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7J2NFX Like the National Gallery or the Angel of the North, HR gets a brown sign ... 2008-08-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HZCAN ... 2008-08-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HXH3S They play Maple ... 2008-08-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HVGAH I'm busy requesting a new Thawte X.509 certificate and I find two features of the process interesting. One is old and the other ... 2008-08-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HVC2Y Some people evidently don't believe my assertion that signature based AV is no longer an effective part of a security ... 2008-08-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HQK43 You must have seen some of these by ... 2008-08-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HPEJP Over at the Grauniad Politics Blog, Andrew Sparrow notes that critics fail to see funny side of No 10's Jeremy Clarkson ... 2008-08-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HNFG8 Volker posted a fascinating video yesterday - Our inability to understand the exponential function. If you didn't watch it yet, you should. It's long, but worth watching in ... 2008-08-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HHHFG The brand spanking new Airbus A340-600 sat in its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime. Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine runups, prior to ... 2008-08-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HHCR2 Over at CircleID, Patrick Vande Walle writes, with some surprise: IPv6 Considered a Problem by Some Users.I have a Google Blog Search Alert looking for posts over IPv6 in my RSS reader. What strikes me is the number of posts explaining how to disable IPv6 ... 2008-08-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HFTDF First we hear tales of faux spectators being bussed in to make the Olympics look full. Then we hear the shocking revelation that the cute little Chinese girl who sang at the opening ceremony was miming, and that the recorded voice wasn't even hers. But ... 2008-08-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7HEBG3 On BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the chef Rick Stein says that cookery should be classed as an art. Challenged to justify this, he explains: "It's the piece of cod which passeth all ... 2008-08-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7H9JY5 This is just plain ... 2008-08-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7H6MCY This is very odd. From The Philadelphia ... 2008-08-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7H4MJ9 This just in, from a sender who identifies himself only as "Foreign Affairs ... 2008-08-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7H4BP8 It is now not unusual to see spams with subject lines designed to fool the unwary into believing they are about to read some breaking news story or intimate details of some celeb's love life, or even to watch video of the same, but ... 2008-08-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7H3BLT This just ... 2008-07-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GZB2Q Oh my! Isn't Volker looking youthful these days? The hair! The absence of even a single pair of spectacles! But those ears are, well, a little more sticky out than I ... 2008-07-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GYGLY A while ago, I was being bothered by large numbers of malformed requests for pages on this site. They all turned out to be from a startup company named Cuill, which was refining its super efficient indexing algorithm by generating and then following large ... 2008-07-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GYCR4 This is rather sad. A huge fire has destroyed the historic Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare. Dozens of firefighters fought to tackle the blaze which took hold of the partly wooden pier in the Somerset seaside resort at about 0700 BST. No-one was ... 2008-07-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GYB4X This just ... 2008-07-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GULM9 You remember that little problem with DNS that I mentioned the other day? The one that was going to be kept under wraps for a month, pending patch deployment? The cat is no longer in the bag. At CircleID - DNS Attack Code Has Been ... 2008-07-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GRHR5 Sorry to contradict you, Michael, but there is no new standard in ... 2008-07-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GPNGE Souvenir mug seen in a shop in ... 2008-07-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GMB4Y The dust has barely settled after last month's shocking revelation that ICANN is contemplating handing over yet more licenses to print money to that leech of the Internet, the domain name industry, by permitting the creation of unlimited TLDs, and already we ... 2008-07-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GLM52 Oh goody. Here's a new public private partnership to keep me and my computer safe, named Get Safe ... 2008-07-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GLFKC ... 2008-07-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GFB7U On attempting to translate a web page just now, using Google's translation feature, I was met with this rather stern warning. Bad Request Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request. I don't know why, but it struck me that this may be a ... 2008-07-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GEELN You may remember that little issue we had with Yahoo! a while back, where endless V14GR4 spam was being emitted by their servers and they seemed unable to do anything about it, or even acknowledge it. Shortly after I posted an open letter to them at ... 2008-07-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GDFZB August 6th, 2008 is the day on which Dan Kaminsky will reveal details of the flaw in the DNS protocol specification that gave rise to this tabloid style * headline over at the Beeb: Fix found for net security flaw Computer experts have released ... 2008-07-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GCCZT Any recommendations for a non-Domino, probably PHP or Perl based, open source CMS? I don't need a lot of features, but I do need one that is easy to skin. Joomla! seems to be well regarded, but are there others I should be looking ... 2008-07-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7GBBZR Try this little ... 2008-07-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7G9QH7 (Thanks, ... 2008-07-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7G7D5Q A Slashdot post caught my eye yesterday evening. EC2 space is now actively blocked by Outblaze, and has been listed by Spamhaus in their PBL list... Intriguing, for sure, but what is ... 2008-07-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7G7C59 I thought I'd take a look at analytics for this site and see what OS people who visit are using. 19 months or so after the business launch of Vista and 17 months after the consumer launch, during which time it has become increasingly difficult for most ... 2008-07-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7G4CUD Two significant milestones are reached today. One we've already covered. The other is that today is the day by which all American federal agencies must demonstrate the ability to pass IPv6 packets across their backbone ... 2008-06-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7G4BR3 An ode to the sad loss of a dear old friend. Windows, version five point one, (1) Has died and gone to heaven. I'm passing up on version six (2) And going straight to seven. That is, Windows XP and ... 2008-06-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7G3P5H ... 2008-06-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FYG68 At the Beeb - Crucial vote on internet's future. A complete overhaul of the way people navigate the internet could begin following a crucial vote in Paris. The net's regulator Icann will vote to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain ... 2008-06-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FYBVB Over the years since I started this blog (for reasons you will find explored here) many people have written to thank me, via email and comments, and occasionally people even want to pay me or otherwise recognise in some tangible way the help which I may, ... 2008-06-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FXAXH From a trapped ... 2008-06-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FWDBX Is phish the new spam? Must our words for on-line abuses always stem from comestibles? What next? Pizza? I digress. What I meant to say was that, a short while ago, a user casually observed to me during a wide ranging conversation that, while she ... 2008-06-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FVDAA At ZDNet - XP era ends: Will Vista step up? The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it’s time for Vista to sink or ... 2008-06-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FUGQH Last Sunday, while staying in a rather nice little holiday cottage in Trevor, near Llangollen in North Wales, I found myself on the receiving end of some special attention. The occasion was Fathers' Day, about which I had completely forgotten, and the ... 2008-06-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FTN72 Steve Ballmer must be on crack. More ... 2008-06-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FLAEV ... 2008-06-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FKE8M ... 2008-06-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FJJRK For what? I'm not sure I needed to know that. (Thanks, ... 2008-06-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FHFY2 ... 2008-06-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FHDZN Or are you just pleased to see ... 2008-06-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FGKWM Our ST server won't allow anonymous users to attend meetings, even the test meeting. ACL on stconf.nsf permits anonymous access and the Anonymous users can participate in meetings or enter virtual places box is checked, but when an unauthenticated user ... 2008-06-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FGAS7 I'm sure I read a similar story somewhere else recently, perhaps at Ed Brill's place, but I can't find it now. Got an email out of the blue from an old college buddy last night. The subject just read ... 2008-06-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FAHUV I'm considering a Skype SIP wi-fi 'phone. * Any recommendations? Update: * OK, not Skype. SIP. That way I get to carry on criticising ... 2008-06-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7F9B6X StatCounter reports no visitors at all here on Sunday and a greatly reduced number on Monday. Sundays tend to be quiet, save for occasional visits from people looking for Bill Gates, asking me to confirm whether they really did just win the Microsoft ... 2008-06-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7F4PQT Via Ed Bott, Free Sysinternals Windows utilities now available online, ... 2008-05-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7F4HWV El Reg reports: A tourist enjoying Australia's Queensland had a close brush with death when a deadly brown snake attacked his todger as he took a roadside toilet break, the The Cairns Post reports. The unnamed victim was last month around 300km ... 2008-05-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7F3CMH Over at PC World, we ... 2008-05-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7F3CJL That must have been a very long time ... 2008-05-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7F2QYN SINGAPORE--A local company has laid claims to a technology that Web sites across the globe deploy to link images to other Web pages, and sent out notification letters to several companies demanding to be paid licensing fees. Dubbing itself "pioneers ... 2008-05-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EUQNG Microsoft today announced that it would update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format.  Moreover, it would also join both the OASIS working group as well as the ISO/IEC JTC1 working group that has control of the ... 2008-05-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EUGCH Captions, ... 2008-05-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7ESF4B Here's an idea over at IdeaJam that seems to have a lot of people demoting it for a lot of very sensible ... 2008-05-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EPFYN An important legal precedent was set the other day. "Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Sir Paul Cresswell ruled that a man's bare torso did not count as 'private parts'. "The 2003 Sexual Offences Act specifies that 'private parts' ... 2008-05-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7ELDDU Found while clearing out an old office area in the bowels of the factory, an IBM publication entitled Computing Systems Fundamentals; Text - Unit 1. It is dated July 1967 and I so enjoyed reading the introduction that I have decided to share it here ... 2008-05-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EKKKF Just a random selection of gems from this ... 2008-05-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EGBNT Just a gentle reminder, in case you care and haven't yet said so, please sign ... 2008-05-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EFF54 At ZDNet - AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 Oh goody, I thought. Here's a relatively Big Gun from a globally significant telco taking, or perhaps making, an opportunity to draw media attention to a critical issue. Mistakenly you see, based ... 2008-05-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EFB2G (Thanks, ... 2008-05-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EEFTG Perhaps this should be hownotto, given the widespread brokenness of SaaS email integration - and no, I am not talking about the Salesforce.com connector for Lotus Notes again. This is a far more basic ... 2008-05-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EEEM3 A business partner writes seeking permission to register some domains to use in conjunction with our franchise. I write back giving permission. Business partner reverts ... 2008-05-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7EDBPJ Can anyone recommend a good (restartable) download manager for Firefox? I have Flashgot but I'd like a download manager that works well with it, instead of Flashgot's built in download ... 2008-05-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7E8GMB If you've not yet voted today, please think carefully. Do you really want this as your ... 2008-05-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7E6GB2 It had to happen sooner or later. We have our first iPhone user * who simply must have access to his Lotus Notes email via iPhone. We wasted a small amount of time looking at some of the ridiculous Heath Robinson lash-ups that are reported on various ... 2008-04-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7E5EKF At the Beeb - Loopholes keep Windows XP ... 2008-04-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7E2UHU Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86 Veteran jazz musician and radio host Humphrey Lyttelton has died aged 86. The chairman of BBC Radio 4's comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue recently had surgery in an attempt to repair an aortic aneurysm. ... 2008-04-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7E2EDV Remember that little problem we were having a while back with the Lotus Notes connector for ... 2008-04-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7E2AXE ... has been found. Oops. My ... 2008-04-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DZKNF Ed Bott, writing about the unfortunate timing of two recent Microsoft ventures, namely the unveiling of Live Mesh and the closure of MSN Music, writes: What a great opportunity Good Microsoft had today. They could have contacted their MSN Music customers, ... 2008-04-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DZBBU So said a wiser man than I a month or more ago. But is that ... 2008-04-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DYBL6 ... in the same sense that Vista is a work in ... 2008-04-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DXEF7 A reader wrote to me the other day with a question. She was about to launch a service that, in addition to its other features, would send an email to members for informational purposes and to solicit feedback. This email was to be in HTML format and she ... 2008-04-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DWPE9 Microsoft East Africa has dismissed allegations that it threatened to withdraw funding to Kenya if the government did not vote "yes" on OOXML. Louis Otieno, Microsoft general manager in East and Southern Africa denied the allegations, saying that ... 2008-04-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DUNXC There's some maintenance and major spring cleaning being carried out at casa Linfoot. In addition to many other activities, this has involved the dismantling and reassembly of a couple of major domestic appliances - specifically a fridge and a freezer. I have ... 2008-04-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DTFLE Given recent posts by others on this subject, this post from my archive suddenly seems ... 2008-04-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DTAXW I installed the Telmap satellite navigation system on my BlackBerry 8310 the other day. As with any new toy, I have found it difficult to resist playing with it, though I have not actually needed to use it much yet. This fact, combined with a hypothesis ... 2008-04-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DRRKK Centre column of vending machine in the ... 2008-04-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DRCP6 You will be. Or perhaps you may have an answer to ... 2008-04-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DPCKR This just in via E-Mail. ... 2008-04-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DLEPM The brief listing by Spamhaus yesterday of addresses belonging to Messagelabs has been explained, at least partially. It seems that the fault was at the CBL which currently features the following text at the top if its home ... 2008-04-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DKF9D My spies tell me that, for a period of a few hours earlier today, some of Messagelabs' IPs were listed in a number of DNS block lists, including Spamhaus. Some Messagelabs users found themselves in the unusual position of having their own mail bounced. ... 2008-04-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DKEPZ Never. The clue is in the name. Oddly enough, the British tax man (well, VAT man) has remained unpersuaded of this self-evident truth - that a cake is a cake - for an impressive twenty tears or so and has therefore been requiring vendors of this cake to ... 2008-04-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DKAZS This just in. LotusUserGroup.org is hosting Lotusphere Comes to You Online. This is an online event series featuring updated presentations from Lotusphere 2008 and even one or two new sessions. Designed to bring anyone who couldn't get to Orlando the ... 2008-04-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DJHP7 Methinks 'tis time for someone at the Beeb to take a crash course in TCP/IP. iPlayer, the BBC's on demand TV replay service, is under fire from Internet service providers who complain that it soaks up way too much bandwidth. A row about who should pay ... 2008-04-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DHKCC A brief item posted by Darren Adams yesterday caught my eye. Darren wondered why, after Windows 3.11, 95, 98, ME (lest we forget), 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista, the next version which is now on everyone's lips is version 7. Even counting 95, 98 and ME as ... 2008-04-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DGH2T For reasons which are not relevant to the rest of this tale, I logged into my Yahoo! mailbox (1) just now and found a very familiar message in the in-box, not the bulk folder (which is what Yahoo! calls their spam ... 2008-04-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DFT3U Oh dear. My post - What's in a (domain) name? - is drawing heat from some supporters of dot ... 2008-04-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DDFA9 A story over at CircleID briefy piqued my interest. Scotland Wants Its Own Top-Level Domain ‘.SCO’ The Scottish Nationalist Government is reportedly considering a formal request with ICANN seeking a “.sco” top-level domain to replace the distinctly ... 2008-04-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DCKNP I have taken the unusual step of posting an open letter to Yahoo!'s postmaster over at CircleID in the hope, though with little expectation, that this will hit the mark where earlier attempts to intercede with Yahoo! have failed. Share and ... 2008-04-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DBHQZ So says Paul Bristow, commenting on the Register story about the standardization of OOXML. Like others making similar points - it's only a standard if others choose to implement it - Paul misses the obvious ... 2008-04-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DABQS Sources inside Microsoft are close to revealing the true motivation behind the push for OOXML standardisation. What has been roundly condemned up to now as a self serving, commercially motivated power play, which has nothing to do with any true desire for ... 2008-04-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7DABL6 Breaking with a long and unhappy tradition of failed windups, there will be no April fool gag here this year. Meanwhile, here is a selection of earlier gags, which you probably didn't enjoy at the time. A native Notes mass mailing worm! (Bill actually did ... 2008-04-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D9LVL I wrote this a few months ago. Consider a software company which is, even now, engaged in an assault on the International Standards Organisation designed to ensure the acceptance of its Office OpenXML file specification as a second ratified ISO standard ... 2008-03-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D8TEB Suppose you have a product which you could sell to 30% of your target market for €120, but for which 50% of your target market would only be willing to pay €100 and 20% only €90. You want to sell to all of the market, so what do you do? You could price at ... 2008-03-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D7G5S Since its inception, Planet Lotus has shown just how valuable an aggregation service focused on a single community can be. Having all posts in one place, tagged and filtered according to relevance and with the most recent first (see footnote) is just so ... 2008-03-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D6F4B Is anyone successfully using the SalesForce connector for Lotus Notes? What Notes client version? What mail template? Any other ... 2008-03-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D6EJQ I know. It's a bit of an old chestnut, but the matter of whether an IP address is personally identifiable information came up again over at CircleID a month or so ago. I don’t normally cheer for Google when I don’t own shares in the company, but this time ... 2008-03-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D5G8U Here's the subject line of a marketing email that just hit my in-box. Subject: Delivering Secure and Performant SAP Solutions Does anyone know what performant means? I can't seem to find it in my usual ... 2008-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D5EFV Here we go again. The former owner of ORDB, a DNSBL which announced well over a year ago that it was closing down, sends a message to lazy mail server admins everywhere - - Stop querying our zone! It's empty and you are causing unnecessary load on our name ... 2008-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D4QL6 Say it ain't ... 2008-03-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D4J6S Here's something you may not have known before and which is often overlooked in the net neutrality debate. TCP is broken. By ... 2008-03-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7D4GDA Here's an object lesson in how to engage with a community which has mobilised against you. The Phorm Comms Team posts a very polite comment on my earlier piece on Phorm. Where the instinctive reaction of many companies, when they find themselves on the ... 2008-03-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CXFMN Dennis posts to report the death of email. Bart agrees with him and shares with me a similar picture from his own secondary MX - 100% of email (give or take rounding) is invalid there, although the vast majority of messages deemed invalid are due to ... 2008-03-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CWN5X We're all familiar with phishing - an attempt to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. You may also have heard of pharming - a type of ... 2008-03-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CVS7A We re-reported that Yahoo! spam, pointing out the obvious features that made Yahoo!'s original denial of involvement ... 2008-03-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CVPY6 I'm not done with this study yet. I'm finding so many defects that recording them is taking more time than finding them. But since this is topical, I will report what I have found so far, based on the first 25 random pages, or 1/8th completion of my target ... 2008-03-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CUSDX We reported to Yahoo! several samples of that Canadian Pharmacy spam that I mentioned the other day. All caused the usual automated response from the abuse desk, but there was no other feedback from Yahoo! until earlier on this ... 2008-03-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CUN48 Here's topical. Well, nearly topical given recent doings at Bear Stearns and the related, if less recent, doings at Northern Rock. Via Greg Mankiw of no less august an organisation than Harvard University, I bring you the most concise, user friendly ... 2008-03-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CUCLN A friend of mine from the beautiful state of Victoria in Australia once told me a joke which I had heard before told a little differently. Q: Why do they call it Castlemaine XXXX? * A: Because Queenslanders can't spell beer. When told by an ... 2008-03-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CTLHG Almost no spam gets through here anymore, which makes the vast number of these things hitting in-boxes all the more ... 2008-03-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CRPXJ And how. I'm just configuring a new laptop for a family member and I've hit a ... 2008-03-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CRPPP Make sure there are no unused icons on the ... 2008-03-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CPHJE The Vatican announced the other day a new set of seven sins for the noughties *. It isn't clear to me whether the new seven sins are deadly, like the older ones, or whether they replace or merely supplement those original seven deadly sins. But if the ... 2008-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CPFMW I am become ... 2008-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CNCF8 The dust has begin to settle a little bit, following that little issue with an apparently benign (if pointless) application apparently designed to back up Gmail accounts, but which was also silently collecting Gmail usernames and passwords. The good folks at ... 2008-03-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CMKWW Go to Google.com, type French Military Victories into the search box and click I'm feeling lucky. Go ahead. I'll ... 2008-03-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CMJPV One announcement at Lotusphere which seemed to attract little comment at the time and has had no press since was to do with a new product named Lotus Protector. (Is it just me, or does that sound like the name of an altogether different type of ... 2008-03-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CLESN Volker draws my attention to this sorry little tale of a wolf in sheep's clothing. It seems that, for the very reasonable price of $29.95, you can purchase a piece of software named g-archiver, which is a solution to a problem you may not even have known ... 2008-03-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CHCBY Seen on following a doclink to a document which had been ... 2008-03-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CGMJJ I wasn't going to be defeated by that little problem I had with Sametime in Notes 8.0.1, and it occurred to me that there may be some problem with some existing config data in my client, ... 2008-03-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CGCTN Remember that little issue I discovered when copying and pasting native MIME from Notes 8 to web forms or ... 2008-03-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CGCE8 I'm hot ... 2008-03-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CFJ6Q Here's a picture for ... 2008-03-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CEHGV The Torygraph reports, and El Reg expands (1) on the unfortunate case of a chap whose wife is said to have cost him £11,000 in international roaming charges for data connectivity (presumably UMTS), by downloading four episodes of Friends (2) using his ... 2008-03-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CEEZR I think my earlier issue may be solved. It seems that I had only managed to download the IBM Lotus Notes Client 8.0.1 and not the IBM Lotus Notes, Designer and Administrator 8.0.1 Clients before my access to Passport online was ... 2008-03-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CEDN7 ... 2008-03-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7CDJAK In the few days since I last posted, I ... 2008-03-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7C7BEH Old joke ... 2008-02-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7C3GY7 When is open source not open source? There was a brief flurry of news articles yesterday evening, each bearing an optimistic title like "Microsoft opens up to open source programmers". It didn't take long for reality to begin to dawn, with ... 2008-02-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7C2LKE This just in from that nice Mr ... 2008-02-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7C2H6J What will they think of next? What is My IBM Redbooks? My IBM® Redbooks® is a Web 2.0 mashup that remixes IBM Redbooks. It uses many of the most popular IBM Redbooks, enabling you to create customized books based on your interests and needs. Chapters ... 2008-02-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BXENF The impossible is often the untried. More ... 2008-02-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BSJV9 Ignorance, thy name is Ballmer. More ... 2008-02-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BSBY3 Make that Expensive and Inconvenient Public Wifi... You know the routine. You connect to that unsecured WLAN in the hotel lobby and fire up a web browser. Instead of seeing your browser's home page (unless you have it set to blank), you see a web page ... 2008-02-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BMNDB I am indebted to my friend Andrew for drawing to my attention the existence of the insightful ERP Graveyard ... 2008-02-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BLF6P A colleague was complaining to me last week that people were missing meetings or turning up at the wrong time because, although an invitation or reschedule notice had been sent, some users had not accepted it and their calendars were still showing free time ... 2008-02-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BKH3Q Oh no! Another meme has infected the Domino community! Here's my album ... 2008-02-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BJDBQ You can't have escaped the startling revelation that data has not been safe in government hands recently. First we had that spot of bother with 25 million child benefit records and, more recently, there have been several tales of lost laptops. One ... 2008-02-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BJCVM Here's the full subject line of a trapped spam *. Subject: Fantastic and despicable Boxed Programs for Windows and Mac OS Now, which of Windows and Mac OS do you supposes is fantastic and which despicable? * I almost never look at these things any ... 2008-02-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BHCW4 Monday February 4th 2008 is Across The Universe Day. Join the US Space Agency NASA in sending the Beatles music literally Across The Universe! The enduring impact of the Beatles on popular culture is not in doubt. The music created by the four lads ... 2008-02-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7BDBKN Fraport, Lufthansa lounge. Here's our old friend Free Public Wifi and his newly discovered cousin, ... 2008-01-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/EIGT-7BCC8P You will doubtless have noticed that often, when you are connecting to a wireless network, more than one wireless network is available and many of these additional wireless networks are obviously people's home access points with default SSID and no ... 2008-01-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/EIGT-7BBM4D Despite the fact that we have not really met but have merely been juxtaposed in row 2 of this airbus A319 by random act of automated check-in system, I am deeply touched that you feel you already know me well enough to share with me your eclectic taste in ... 2008-01-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B8R6A Somebody at the FCC needs anatomy lessons. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue. The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a ... 2008-01-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B7RBX What's this? A mainstream article about IBM, Notes, Symphony and ... 2008-01-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B7H3E To make things a little easier for people coming here for the first time, I have updated my brief list of posts which readers may find helpful. Regular readers (and anyone else for that matter) may wish to point out any useful items I may inadvertently have ... 2008-01-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B5C5D Congratulations to Jake Howlett for deservedly winning the LotusUserGroup.org Best Blogger 2008 award. ... 2008-01-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B4JKY <plagiarism> So remember and head over there to vote for your favourite blogger (which may or may not be me...) </plagiarism> Thanks for the reminder, Bill. And everyone else please remember - I'm not at ... 2008-01-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B4DUQ That Transporter Suite download turned out to be demo-ware. No surprises there - given the evident shortcomings of earlier versions - but let's take a quick peek anyway. There are clues here which may begin to expose the true motivation behind the ... 2008-01-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B4DBQ (Seen on opening a received ... 2008-01-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B3EMU I just couldn't help myself... (It's your fault, ... 2008-01-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7B3CM3 But of course... (I don't recall seeing a Facebook status update from Lotus Notes ... 2008-01-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AYJY6 You remember that little problem with the loss by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs of two CD-ROMs containing personal details of 25 million people, don't you? That renowned expert on secure identity cars, Jeremy Clarkson, was caught out opining on the ... 2008-01-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AXQSQ ... is a good ... 2008-01-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AXCCS Help yourselves to champagne. (It is also exactly five years since my first post here, though it was a few months later that I registered the domain and migrated to Blogsphere on a Domino 6 ... 2008-01-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AWKHU There's been much journalistic raking over that somewhat unusual grammatical construction which featured in Gordon Brown's defence (1) of Peter Hain, following that little problem with the late declaration of financial donations to the latter's campaign for ... 2008-01-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AVHE8 One of the first things I always do when configuring any new home router is turn off Universal Plug and ... 2008-01-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AUKMU Microsoft may sometimes struggle with software, hardware and services, but they've found a new niche - comedy. This is actually pretty funny. And yes, it is amazing who they can call for a guest appearance in the name of Bill Gates (including a ... 2008-01-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AUDBF Here's fun. Becta (the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) has issued a lengthy report (summarised here) on "Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 and on document interoperability which analyses the suitability of both software ... 2008-01-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7ASKEC Next to a picture of a system running what may be an unpatched copy of Windows XP Home, the Beeb carries a stern warning about this new virus, Mebroot, which hides in the ... 2008-01-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7ARERL As Google Analytics reports that only 2.85% of visitors here use screen resolutions lower than 1024x768, I decided to use some of that wasted screen real etstate at the right. This is just an experiment. I may revert to the old look at some ... 2008-01-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AQJ24 So says John Leyden over at El Reg. A small minority of users - as few as one in 20 - is running fully-patched Windows PCs. Just five per cent of newly-registered users of an online security inspection service Secunia came out with a clean bill of ... 2008-01-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7APRTS Oh dear. The first critical update of the year and what's this we see? A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Windows kernel due to the way that the Windows kernel handles TCP/IP structures storing the state of IGMPv3 and MLDv2 queries. ... 2008-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7APCMA A user here has taken to reporting every email he doesn't want as spam. Some are spam, but most are solicited mailings which he has decided he no longer wants - though not all use a closed loop opt in process, so you can't be completely sure that he really ... 2008-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7ANHHE No ... 2008-01-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7ANH9Z Here's how those tubes are made. Fabrication d'une lampe triodeUploaded by F2FO See also: Net Neutrality - A Pipe ... 2008-01-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AMGAD There's been a short series of posts at the SANS ISC Handlers' Diary on the subject of digital hitchhikers. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 We received a report this afternoon from someone who had recently received a digital picture frame. Unfortunately, it had ... 2008-01-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AJM47 Ed notes the release by Microsoft of a service pack for Office 2003 which turns off support for old file formats. Microsoft says that this is for our comfort and safety. Oh yes. Those old 1-2-3 files are just riddled with viruses. Mark that one thin ... 2008-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AJKGH I have here yet another letter from the grandiosely named Domain Registry of America. This is far from new to me - I've lost count of the number of invoices domain name expiration notices I've had from these people over the years - but this one's got ... 2008-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AJK4X Seems that Robert Scoble got thrown off Facebook for running an experimental Plaxo script to import Facebook ... 2008-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AHRQ7 Second Born has recently taken to wearing a denim (1) waistcoat (2) that I used to wear as a teenager in the '70s. On reaching into the pocket this evening, she pulled out a small square of paper. "Daddy, what's this?" Oh my! That brings ... 2008-01-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AHGCN User drops me a note to suggest we switch all our users to this new fangled blackle dot com search engine thingy. Here's what he ... 2008-01-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AGS6Y I am deeply flattered and humbled by ... 2008-01-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AGGCV I do recognise the program, but do I trust the ... 2008-01-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7AGFRC Here's a little conundrum. First Born has recently acquired a Wii game called Super Paper Mario and has managed to find a 100% reproducible problem while playing it. The Wii console latches up and needs to be restarted at exactly the same point ... 2008-01-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7ACQ55 Here's something you probably didn't suspect. It says here that "dietary supplements marketed to provide male sexual enhancement contain undeclared erectile dysfunction drugs putting users at risk". Yes, that herbal medication you so ... 2007-12-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7A9L7D I gave my better half a shiny new iPod shuffle yesterday. Purple, her favourite colour. I thought I'd set up an iTunes account while I was on *, and look what I spotted on the registration ... 2007-12-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7A8V7X benedicamus ... 2007-12-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7A3K4T Volker is impressed with the new Google translation bots for Google Talk. So am I, particularly having picked up Volker's throwaway comment about Google Talk for ... 2007-12-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7A2NE3 Via.... 2007-12-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7A2GZS ... or how to launch a DDoS on your CATV network in two easy steps. Carry out "routine maintenance" * which has the effect of deleting the DHCP leases of every cable modem and STB on your network. Watch your DHCP servers fall over under the load ... 2007-12-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79ZLJR ... 2007-12-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79YFM8 Oh wait. Apparently they do, and who could have predicted ... 2007-12-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79YD7D Via.... 2007-12-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79TLT4 I remember, years ago when I was part of a team that used to look after a large DEC VAX cluster, that we bought ourselves a new vacuum cleaner to pick up the debris that ended up on the floor around the impact printers and decollators. As the vacuum ... 2007-12-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79SHKF Here's an idea to help you with the task of managing your Domino SMTP whitelist - self service ... 2007-12-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79SGDM ... A headline popped up in my feed reader the other day that very briefly piqued my ... 2007-12-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79RCSK Within a couple of days of my complaint that HIGNFY had been pulled from on-demand services, it was back on Virgin Media's catch-up service. This evening, while finding the latest Top Gear on iPlayer, I note that HIGNFY is back on iPlayer too. I still ... 2007-12-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79RCFW PCMCIA - Abbreviation for People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms -- Anon The problem with information technology, people will tell you, is that there are just too many acronyms. People will tell you this either just after you have introduced a ... 2007-12-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79NFCT If you've tried to post a comment here recently you may have noticed that it hasn't ... 2007-12-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79MSA2 I am indebted to Captain Cool * of Lufthansa for his perseverance in the face of adverse weather and for getting me to Frankfurt in time to catch my connection. * Perhaps not the correct spelling of the name, but certainly the correct pronunciation if not ... 2007-12-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79KTGK You remember that Windows "kill switch" right? It's ... 2007-12-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79JC93 To meet the demand for top quality IBM Lotus Notes consultancy throughout Ireland, UK and Europe, Blue Wave Technology Limited has acquired BE Systems Limited, specialists in providing top quality IBM Lotus technology services and support throughout the ... 2007-12-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79JC39 Only 12,560 years to ... 2007-12-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79GS3A Here's a question for the Beeb Beeb Ceeb, or for well informed Beeb watchers. Why has Have I Got News For You been pulled from on-demand services? Neither Virgin Media's catch-up TV on demand nor iPlayer has any trace of it. I missed last Friday's show and ... 2007-12-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79FJTG It's been a while since we've done this, but let's look at how some googlers reached this site in ... 2007-11-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79EE87 Do you carry your cell phone in your shirt pocket? I don't. I have one of those geeky belt clips but as of today I am a lot less embarrassed about ... 2007-11-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79DMVK I'm just echoing a post by ... 2007-11-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79CMW4 Let's see if this Idea Jam thing works for boring old MTA policy ideas as well as all those cool designer ideas. Please vote to promote this (for these very good reasons). Update: Not bad so far, thanks. But let's see if we can get this ... 2007-11-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79CCCH Over at Idea Battle: I just can't decide betwen these two ... 2007-11-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79BPW2 Over at ZDNet: "Holiday tech gifts we don't recommend". And the first runner up ... 2007-11-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79BJP6 Forget those privacy worries that were being touted by the media a week or two back. Facebook isn't just an invitation to steal your identity, apparently. It's also quite staggeringly expensive. Want ... 2007-11-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-79BFME VANCOUVER, Washington - November 27, 2007 – Elguji Software, LLC (pronounced "el-GOO-jee") has launched their new social networking site called, “Idea Jam” ... 2007-11-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-797LFA I should have predicted this. Over the past two days or so I have lost count of the number of solicitations I have received via email from companies wishing to impress upon me their world class credentials in the sphere of data protection. "Don't ... 2007-11-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-796MLK Over at ZDNet * - Photos: Dinosaur sightings: Lotus Symphony 3 - perhaps related to the piece visible in the background on that "(Don't) give up on Vista" ad. There's nothing nasty here actually. It's just a nostalgic reflection on software from ... 2007-11-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-796MAZ Briefly seen on eBay * - an item that has mysteriously since been ... 2007-11-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-795PUN ... Security realms, that is. Two stories about data security have individually had some coverage today. Juxtaposed, they reveal something about joined up ... 2007-11-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-795CWJ Very often I see hits in my referrer log coming from the site now known as experts-exchange dot com (I seem to recall that the name was changed when it occurred to someone that expertsexchange dot com may just carry with it an alternative connotation not ... 2007-11-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-794CYU I feel so much safer ... 2007-11-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-793S6J ... 2007-11-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78ZHZ4 I like my BlackBerry Curve, I really do, despite some minor misgivings. I particularly like the fact that it has a standard 3.5mm headphone socket instead of that silly 2.5mm socket (with somewhat unconventional pin assignments) that RIM used to use for ... 2007-11-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78ZH9M So, having got your Wii, having figured out how to get it on-line via your WLAN and choosing to ignore the fact that it seems to try IPv6 connections via your IPv4 only home network, you may have been pondering this. Other than the quite staggeringly ... 2007-11-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78YC8J But it ... 2007-11-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78WFZA I've mentioned this before. Several times, actually, but today's comment from Oleh Dyhan marks a new low. Oleh (or is it Dyhan?) wants to borrow money from Bill Gates, at a very generous interest rate, and he thinks that posting a comment here might be ... 2007-11-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78WC38 My alma mater offers a service to its alumni which I suspect many other similar organisations do for their members and affiliates. It offers an email address for life, perhaps to make it easier for old friends to find each other, perhaps to save users the ... 2007-11-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78QGJH Seen in a recent Google search referrer here: why do we get winmail.dat on exchange ... 2007-11-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78QFJX ... 2007-11-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78PCKJ Yes, I followed the herd and installed Facebook for BlackBerry a while ... 2007-11-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78NDAQ And do I need ... 2007-11-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78KDLE ... You might get it. Or you might not. I had a lengthy chat with my ISP yesterday. The conversation was wide ranging and they were interested to hear about business strategy and the impact that this has on our technology platforms. There's a lot to be ... 2007-11-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78JFX7 What's this? A ZIP file containing a single portable executable in my in-box *, accompanied by the following ... 2007-11-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78GBRJ This was mentioned in a comment yesterday (thanks, Florian) but, for those of you who do not read comments, I have embedded it here - a darkly humorous take on IPv4 meltdown. I particularly enjoyed the sight of a room full of live blogging, powerbook ... 2007-10-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-78FGL3 My main aim in writing my piece on OpenDNS the other day was actually to find an excuse to mention, in an informal way, the Wii's quaint habit of doing AAAA DNS look-ups on an IPv4 only network. But perhaps because I agreed to allow the post to be featured ... 2007-10-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-789NM3 If you are not already using OpenDNS on your home network I have one question for you. Why ... 2007-10-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-785L5Y You heard it here ... 2007-10-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-784LNK There's been a bit of a row here during the trial of the Metropolitan Police on Health and Safety charges, following the regrettable incident in which they shot an innocent man seven times in the head at close range, believing him to be a terrorist. (Well, ... 2007-10-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-784KTE ... 2007-10-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-782HSP Consider this complete set of Received headers from a recent spam. And remember that they appear in reverse order - the bottom Received event happened ... 2007-10-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-782BBB VANCOUVER, Washington - October 16, 2007 – Today Elguji Software announced their new “Elguji Ideas” software will be used to support a new social networking site for the IBM Lotus Community called “Idea Jam” (http://IdeaJam.net). The site will officially ... 2007-10-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77ZEVZ We have a user who is trying to activate an 8310 wirelessly. It isn't working, but instead he is seeing ... 2007-10-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77WD92 Update: We are now on a D8 server here. The redirect from www.chris-linfoot.net to chris-linfoot.net is now a 301 permanent redirect.Try this little ... 2007-10-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77TC6N Remember this? Of course you do - it was only ... 2007-10-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77SJBU Look up the PTR of this IP - ... 2007-10-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-77PH9T I have always wondered why so much attention has been given to one particular work, or series of works, by Douglas Adams when there is so much more in his ... 2007-10-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-77PCDP Draw a line on a piece of paper. Make a mark at each end and nine equally spaced marks in between. Label these marks 0 to 10 and label the whole thing "Axis of Evil". Zero is not evil at all and 10 is diabolical in the truest sense of the ... 2007-10-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77PCCJ So it isn't just Notes ... 2007-10-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77MDHH I have an invitation here to attend an event in London in ... 2007-10-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77KDSL Here's a minor annoyance with Notes 8 (both Basic Configuration and ... 2007-10-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-77GG2F Newer visitors may have wondered about this site's purported status as the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino "spam bible", given the conspicuous absence of any recent content much to do with spam. Older visitors may also sometimes wonder why I never mention ... 2007-09-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77FCDB Or the latest instalment in why I hate telemarketers, a long running saga. 'Phone rings. I ... 2007-09-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77EKK7 Now you see it. Now you ... 2007-09-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77EBFW Where's my ... 2007-09-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77DLG7 Several times I have noticed elements of the Notes 8 UI missing in ... 2007-09-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77DHCZ When the BlackBerry 8300 a.k.a "Curve" came out, I resisted getting one despite the allure of the camera, the "improved" media player, the purported * ability to accept a standard 3.5mm headphone jack instead of that silly 2.5mm ... 2007-09-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-77BMZT ... 2007-09-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-778AUG Executive summary: If you want to install Notes 8 using an existing Notes 8 dataset, delete bookmarks.nsf before you start and look out for broken Sametime communities ... 2007-09-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-772H5W I was thinking about going to the cinema (1) to watch a film (2) this weekend. Perhaps that Bourne Ultimatum - I enjoyed the other ... 2007-09-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76XH9X ... 2007-09-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-76XE4Y Note: Please navigate to this site's home page before submitting a vote. Votes submitted from other pages do not appear to work.A little draft RFC slipped out of the IETF a month or so ago without attracting a great deal of attention. An Internet ... 2007-09-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76UPQX Downloading films * is stealing... * Movies, if you're ... 2007-09-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76TBJE Seen on right clicking the body of an HTML formatted email in Notes 8. This doesn't appear on every HTML email, or in fact every time the same HTML email is opened. But it is ... 2007-09-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76RLML Just recently, the server console here has been alive with messages not unlike this ... 2007-09-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76PP26 "Dad," he says. "If a man says something in the forest, and there's no woman there to hear him say it, is he still wrong?" I think he must have found that in Readers' ... 2007-09-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76KPBE Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 is out today. Point your existing BlackBerry browser at mini.opera.com/beta and take it from there. (Via ZDNet: The BlackBerry ... 2007-08-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76KLLP Or Lotus Notes * confusing error message du jour. * (version ... 2007-08-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76JJLX Trying to upgrade a BES server here from 4.0.3 to 4.1.2 (the latest version supported by Vodafone in the UK), we are hitting a ... 2007-08-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76HG58 Bill was cross about this, the accusation of piracy, made against him automagically by Microsoft. And its actions like this (or Vista, or lack of investment in Explorer, or buggy automatic updates that screw your machine) that will drive people to their ... 2007-08-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76HF75 Anyone else seeing ... 2007-08-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76EDH9 What is it with dogs? -----BEGIN K9P SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA-T From: Chris (Head of Household; Alpha Male; poor shmuck who pays for your Shmackos) To: Milo: (Wannabe Alpha Dog; most junior member of Linfoot household; net contribution to family ... 2007-08-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-664EZW What is it with dogs? -----BEGIN K9P SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA-T Problem The firmware shipped with certain dogs contains a feature intended to enable the dog to operate in "stealth" mode. Stealth mode permits a dog to engage in covert ... 2007-08-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76CCCB The new Notes 8 UI is a major advance on older Notes versions and may well go some way towards persuading those powerful end users that there's life in the old dog yet. How can they fail to be impressed by ... 2007-08-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76AM98 Yes, that explanation by Skype of last week's trouble as being the result of a mass reboot of Windows PCs following the monthly update does seem to beg more questions than it answers. For example: Windows update happens every month - why have we not seen ... 2007-08-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-76AM8B ... 2007-08-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-769QFV When there are no peers in the ... 2007-08-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-769DRH This is the entire subject line of a recent ... 2007-08-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-769AUG I had to give up on Friday. The download would not have completed before midnight at the rate it was progressing - and I started at perhaps 10:00am. Resumed this morning and it looks set to finish in just over 90 minutes. I guess the download servers were ... 2007-08-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-769AM7 Thanks, Volker. You saved me the bother of mentioning Domino 8's outbound SMTP authentication feature.. Although... That does prompt a thought about the widespread use of Domino in SME (some say SMB) environments... I may expand ... 2007-08-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-766EW6 I've been playing with iPlayer for a few days now and I am no more convinced than I was that it is a good solution to the problem of delivering broadcast video content, on demand to a computer. Broadly, there are three features of iPlayer, though they ... 2007-08-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-766DVJ But don't hold it waiting for Skype to start working again. Rumours of its resurrection have been somewhat exaggerated. Now, is anyone running a book on how many pink slips will shortly be handed out at Skype, and who will be the ... 2007-08-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-765BCL In no particular order... Businesses having second thoughts about Vista; Fewer now believe it's more secure than XP, says new survey - who could have predicted that? Stop broadcasting baloney about Wi-Fi; from mortarboard / Quin Parker at The Guardian ... 2007-08-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-764B2W It's Declan's birthday today. Sorry - no time for a ... 2007-08-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-763PLX Since the 10th of this month, there have been no DNSBL hits here from the Spamhaus Zen DNSBL. Prior to that, most days there were somewhat under 200 hits. This is partly because Spamhaus is listed towards the end of our list of DNSBLs but mainly because ... 2007-08-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-763GFF Just when you thought it was safe to power up your laptop, some fool goes and invents paper batteries. Flexible paper batteries could meet the energy demands of the next generation of gadgets, says a team of researchers. They have produced a sample ... 2007-08-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-762F3H Seen at the SANS ISC Handlers' Diary on Saturday (emphasis added): "E-mails for non-existent users should be rejected at your MX server. This rejection should happen during the SMTP session (in other words - don't put Exchange there), right after your ... 2007-08-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75XBSS 1. Don't eat toast and marmite * while surfing Facebook on your 'Berry. Crumbs get in the pearl and it stops working. 2. This is a lot more difficult than it ... 2007-08-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75WHW2 Me too, but unlike Volker I am so far pretty lonely ... 2007-08-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75VLBN Please send English. I don't speak ... 2007-08-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75TGSS ... 2007-08-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75TCJP Please accept apologies in advance for a noob ... 2007-08-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75SSMN Following a general anaesthetic, surgery to wire the fractured radii back together and the application of plaster casts rendering both hands and wrists completely immobile, second born has regained the ability to: feed herself (by any means necessary, ... 2007-08-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75RSYS We'd like you to join the BBC iPlayer Beta. This email contains everything you need to get started... Stand by for a review when I've had the chance to play with it a ... 2007-08-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75QPGL ... 2007-08-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75PFXU It's been a while since we've done this, but let's look at how some googlers reached this site last ... 2007-08-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75PBCZ No, Im not talking about baked beans. It would appear that the forthcoming 57 car registration period in the UK is causing some concern over at the ... 2007-08-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75PAYS This is about 10 minutes' worth of SMTP log activity from one of our three MXes, at around midnight. Spammers don't sleep. The private blacklist is earning its keep. Do you really want to accept, then filter all of that junk? This does seem to have ... 2007-08-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75NQR4 The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain plays Smells Like Teen Spirit by ... 2007-08-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75NBDF There has been some commentary in mainstream media recently to the effect that the days of mass mailing malware are over. You can now mount a DoS attack without the need for any malware, apparently. And there are better easier ways to deliver malware to ... 2007-08-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75LK4T Second born invented a new technique for dismounting swings ... 2007-07-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75HAWQ I don't know about you, but mine's in the living room. I have a nice, comfy sofa too where I can sit and watch. And I still have a VHS recorder connected to that TV. Why mention this? Well, apparently the Beeb is launching iPlayer (1) ... 2007-07-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75GBGD Just over a year ago, Number 10 was in hot water (figuratively speaking) over the vexed issue of hosepipe bans. They'd been caught watering the garden when everyone else in the South East was having to stand back and watch their azaleas wither. Number 10 ... 2007-07-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75GB7F So touching that first born still wants to spend quality time with the old man. Or could it be something to do with ... 2007-07-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75FGC8 This seemed to make more sense when I wrote ... 2007-07-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75ECZF ... 2007-07-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75EC3X OK, I do know that it's a somewhat theoretical threat, but it is interesting to see that sauce for Microsoft's goose can also be sauce for Apple's ... 2007-07-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-75DF3Q No, not the 80s pop group (warning: annoying background music at that link) - I'm talking about the weather. I was at a business meeting in Stratford (yes, that Stratford) last Monday. Lucky it wan't Friday, as that part of Stratford has been under water ... 2007-07-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-754HNV I don't care how famous a photographer you are. You just can't turn to the Queen and say "pop your top off, love". Marcus Brigstocke, on The Now Show, Friday 13th July. Here's what it's all about, in case you missed ... 2007-07-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-753JUV Do you remember those first BlackBerries with the hard plastic holsters? The ones that people would sometimes call "BlueBerries", because the versions shipped by some networks were made of blue, not black plastic? I regularly used to hear ... 2007-07-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-753HQZ On sending an email to one of my suppliers just now, the log ... 2007-07-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-753FUP The PDF spam continues. Most look like that sample I showed you the other day. But here's one that ... 2007-07-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-752EVD Following last week's somewhat lopsided piece about the Microsoft sponsored initiative to preserve digital documents at the National Archive, the BBC publishes this altogether better piece which gets directly to the heart of the ... 2007-07-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-752CAD Is postmaster allowed to say ... 2007-07-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-752BE8 Well, he started ... 2007-07-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74XT34 My car went in for a service today and my expectations have been somewhat exceeded. Here's what is recorded in the service booklet. ... 2007-07-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74XCQD Volker worries that this site doesn't remember him. In turn, this worries me a little as the remember me feature seems to work fine for me on every browser I have tried, including Firefox, IE and ... 2007-07-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74XC8J QV yesterday's piece on the use of PDF in-line to replace GIF images as a delivery vector for pump and dump messages. We have many, many more sightings over the weekend which appear to emanate from new botnets in India and the USA. Some of these botnets ... 2007-07-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74WPYM WARNING: On topic post ahead. I have seen several samples recently of what I initially took to be malware but on closer examination turn out to be no more than pump and dump image spam with a slightly new twist - the usual GIF image with the pump and dump ... 2007-07-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74TQZV This just in by ... 2007-07-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74TQUC ... but it isn't. (Sorry, ... 2007-07-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74SGNT If you are not the intended recipient please do not read, save, forward, disclose, or copy the contents of this e-mail. Oh dear. I just read that. Now what? See also: Superstition (garlic, silver bullets, ... 2007-07-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74SDMC WARNING: Digital rot ahead... Over at the Beeb, there seems to be some evidence that at least some agencies are taking the new Microsoft talk of openness at face value. The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time ... 2007-07-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74RQYB Did you know that the European Commission has its own TV channel on YouTube? I didn't, before today. Unsurprisingly, it's mainly rather dull. For example, the following little gem is entitled "The Reform of the Common Market Organisation for ... 2007-07-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74QDD8 Since I have been old enough to vote, there have now been four prime ministers of Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ... 2007-07-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74QD6S If it ain't one thing it's another... * Interactive whiteboards have been heralded as devices that will enhance education and be a major plank in the government's drive for new technology in schools. But the BBC has learnt that while millions of pounds ... 2007-07-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74JLGM Ed asks the question, "Recall mail: On by default?" So does Mary Beth. And there are loads of comments in both places giving compelling reasons why the new feature should be on, and off, by default. But who's counting? Well, for what it's ... 2007-06-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74HGB2 Time to find a new email ... 2007-06-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74EPY5 Microsoft ... 2007-06-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74DBV9 ... Or why SurfaceTM beats anything Apple can offer. See also: When is a table not a ... 2007-06-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74CSZ5 This isn't good... In the past week, two fake video postings have been set up on YouTube to infect users with a Trojan that includes pop-up porn ads, Secure Computing ... 2007-06-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74BM5M ... is also sauce for the gander. Police have smashed a global child abuse network which was co-ordinated through a UK-based internet site. Global agencies, led by UK investigators, examined more than 700 suspects, including 200 in the UK. The ring ... 2007-06-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74BH4Y Before you get cross with me, Yolanda poses the question in comment 26 here. I know she's not the first, and she won't be the last. Yolanda is "tired of deleting this crap from inbox", so has resorted to copying and pasting it wholesale into ... 2007-06-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74BB3E See yesterday's brief item about BONET FINANCIAL spam. Now, here, we have another. Where yesterday's was delivered to an address of mine scraped from the IBM Lotus developerWorks forums, this one's to webmaster. That would qualify as being from a ... 2007-06-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74ACV5 I was just testing second born (aged nine) on her spellings. One of the spellings was expensive. "Expensive?" I say. "That's you, that is." "No," she says, "I'm priceless." She's right. My ... 2007-06-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-74ACP5 Got a nasty little spam here addressed to one of my email addresses which exists in only one public internet source, my IBM Lotus developerWorks profile. It purports to offer employment as an "E-system operator" or a "Corporate ... 2007-06-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-749QNV Here we go again. Another vulnerability that has existed for months or perhaps years has been found and patched, and now Microsoft can't even wait until the next time I reboot to finish applying the patch. What has more value? The work I lose during ... 2007-06-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-747ERP A well known provider of roadside recovery services here in the UK used to say that "to our members, we're the 4th emergency service." I always found it odd that someone whose car had broken down might consider a call to the coast guard a ... 2007-06-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-747EQD Several users here have reported that, when they delete an email on their BlackBerries, the email is not deleted from their Notes in-box as it should be. BES account settings and handheld settings appear to suggest that this should work and the BES server has ... 2007-06-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-746RHC In a decision reported late Friday by CNET News.com, a federal judge in Los Angeles found (PDF) that a computer server's RAM, or random-access memory, is a tangible document that can be stored and must be turned over in a lawsuit. More ... 2007-06-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-745BB9 Absolute power corrupts absolutely... Blogger power? Well that remains to be seen. But here's one case where blogger power seems to carry some weight. That would probably be Volker's (ceci n'est pas un) blogger power, not mine, but it seems that we are ... 2007-06-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-745B9H Rocky is 43 today. A little bird told ... 2007-06-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-743QWV Flash on a BlackBerry == YouTube/Google Video on a ... 2007-06-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-743JQK I've been at a conference... (Thanks, ... 2007-06-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73VFNV Lesson 1: When imposing change on someone that doesn't want to change, do it slowly. (Thanks, ... 2007-06-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73RKLG It was 40 years ago today... See also: I read the news today, oh ... 2007-06-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73QCG9 At the Beeb a week ago - Backing for tool to battle spam (1) A tool that could help in the battle against spam (1) and phishing attacks has received industry approval. The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) system is a method of validating the identity ... 2007-05-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73QATX Warning: Extended rant ahead. OK. Now that I have your attention, let's begin. Volker draws to my attention the fact that Lotus seems to be contemplating dropping week numbers from the Notes calendar. Perhaps it is worth dwelling briefly on the ... 2007-05-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73PK38 For the nth time today I am being told that a web site here must have in the <TITLE> tag on its home page a long list of keywords and short phrases purely for Google's benefit. The reason? It's good SEO * practice. One question. Says who, ... 2007-05-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73PAS9 When it's a ... 2007-05-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73NR3Y It's so good it's been given DoD certification (5015.2 ... 2007-05-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73KTWJ At the Grauniad today - Through the tube darkly. Won't somebody, please, think of the children? Three weeks ago, I received my favourite email of all time, from a science teacher. "I've just had to ask a BBC Panorama film crew not to film in my class ... 2007-05-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73JC4Y I've seen this in a fair number of recent spams: Received: from pppoe-207.techno-link.com ([85.196.174.207]) by domino2.mydomain.example (Lotus Domino Release 7.0.2) with ESMTP id 2007052509071105-716 ; Fri, 25 May 2007 ... 2007-05-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73GBLK I've just bumped into a bit of an annoyance regarding Domino Web Access (7.0.2) where file attachments use non-ASCII characters (in this example, cyrillic). For example, a file named протокол 16-18.05.07.doc is delivered as an attachment to the in-box of a ... 2007-05-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73FB9M We've been here twice already, but this is really beginning to annoy me. Panorama, the BBC's flagship investigative programme which is usually balanced, thoughtful and thought provoking, proved last night that even they can be swept up by a non-story by ... 2007-05-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73BELY Paging all BlackBerry experts. I need your help. Some time since I moved over to the 8800 (in fact maybe at that time), wireless PIM sync stopped working. Wireless email is working fine in both directions, as is calendar synchronisation. What is not ... 2007-05-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-73BDS5 Look what dropped into my Gmail in-box last ... 2007-05-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-739R2M And we have our culinary differences ... 2007-05-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-739DYH The Beeb is busy today - Malware 'hijacks Windows Updates' Virus writers may be able to smuggle malicious files onto a computer using Microsoft's security patch updates, experts say. At least one program is in circulation that can hijack a key component ... 2007-05-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-739DLA At the Beeb - Call to tackle pirated software More than one-third of business software used by companies around the world is pirated. According to figures released by the Business Software Alliance 35% of the programs used by firms are illegal- a figure ... 2007-05-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-739DCW A week or several back, we switched mobile networks from O2 (UK) to Vodafone (UK). We ported all of our numbers at that time using the usual mechanism, the Porting Authorisation Code or PAC. For the most part this went smoothly, but we have one user who ... 2007-05-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-738QRA Here's a bit of regulatory ... 2007-05-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-734EKH On setting up a new user's laptop here today, his bookmarks started to behave ... 2007-05-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-733QVH In anticipation of Tony Blair's announcement of the timetable for his departure from office today, the Telegraph publishes a list entitled "100 names and phrases coined since 1997". There is a surprisingly high number of technological words and ... 2007-05-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72YSFC There's a little button on the side of my new 8800 and, when I press it, I hear Andie MacDowell's * disembodied voice: Say a ... 2007-05-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72YPQF Welcome to May Day, the only British public holiday that is also an internationally recognised distress ... 2007-05-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72WMDQ Parental advisory: Probably not for the ... 2007-05-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72VKD4 You may have guessed by now that I have a shiny new BlackBerry 8800 courtesy of Vodafone UK. I have for many years been in the habit of storing telephone numbers for my contacts in international format. So, for example, if Fred Bloggs' number is 0555 ... 2007-05-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72VAWV If the penguin is a fitting symbol for Linux then perhaps the beaver, being noted for its endurance, is a fitting symbol for Windows XP. This beaver runs XP, which seems to illustrate the point ... 2007-05-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72UDJM BlackBerry 8800 - tethering as a GPRS modem on Vodafone UK. How? Helpdesk at Vodafone is utterly useless. All they can say is that it is possible (I know that) and that the username and/or password may be something like webb and/or internet though they may ... 2007-05-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72UB3D ... 2007-05-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72SB48 No, she's not a bee keeper. Apparently this rather fetching head gear is a Faraday cage intended to keep electromagnetic radiation away from the wearer's head. She's allergic to WiFi, you see. And then there's this over at the Beeb (which august body ... 2007-05-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72NKQH I spotted an item at the BBC the other day which briefly had me a little worried. It was by Bill Thompson, the title was Wi-fi? Why worry? and it began: Scare stories about the dangers of wireless networks lack credibility, argues Bill ... 2007-04-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72NKDP I want one of ... 2007-04-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72NCU8 We have a DWA user who is seeing this error when attempting to send email to one specific user: Sorry we were unable to process your request at this time. If you are unable to continue working in your mail file, please dismiss this warning and select view, ... 2007-04-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72MFES ... 2007-04-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72KS4A ... 2007-04-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72EDDY I've been following this little tale with some amusement: Two people have been cautioned for using people's wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission. Neighbours in Redditch, Worcestershire, contacted police on Saturday after seeing a man ... 2007-04-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72ED52 Seen in the subject line of a pump and dump spam just now: Deliver us from evil. How ... 2007-04-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72CLNM BBC Click publishes a little article about bloggers' search for anonymity. The internet [sic *] has given the individual unprecedented power to reach out to millions but some governments are cautious, even hostile, to giving their citizens free access to ... 2007-04-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-72BSJA Thanks, ... 2007-04-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-729DKL File this one under oops. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House political adviser Karl Rove was embroiled in a new controversy over potentially missing e-mails on Friday, the latest twist in the firings of eight U.S. prosecutors last year... ... a White ... 2007-04-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-726R25 ... 2007-04-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-723PNW Or plus ça change, plus c'est le same old bollocks. Microsoft Tool Eases Move from Lotus to Exchange Microsoft has officially released software to help companies move from IBM's Lotus Domino collaboration server to Microsoft's Exchange 2007. The ... 2007-04-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZZDJQ Bas writes with a useful tip on the subject of SMTP with Internet Site documents, which we already know to be ... 2007-04-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZYL8H Dear Sir, You wrote a comment on a 'blog' sometime ago on a vehicle you said ran on chicken quano (supplemented with uranium). I was wondering where you got this information on this car? Sincerly, ... 2007-04-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZYBX6 Now we have an answer to the age old question - how do you feed a family of four when everybody wants a ... 2007-04-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZYBLF How do you permanently edit the list of recent servers in Domino Console? There's an .ini file, named dconsole.ini, in the Notes program directory and this contains the list of servers, but also a stern warning: ; ; Please do not edit the following lines ... 2007-04-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZXFUJ By now everyone is aware of the move by EMI to offer DRM free music via iTunes. It isn't free, though. DRM free tracks individually cost more than the DRM laden equivalents. Are we to be charged more for less (notwithstanding the fact that the removed ... 2007-04-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZWB4L In case you're all feeling a little too smug about Microsoft's current, self-inflicted trouble with animated cursors, I'll quickly draw to your attention some extracts from the @RISK mailing I received from the SANS Institute this morning: "A really ... 2007-04-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZVHB3 Over the weekend that little problem with animated cursors that I pointed out on Friday has grown somewhat. The SANS ISC raised their INFOCon threat level to yellow on Saturday, an unofficial patch is now available (sound familiar?) and it now transpires ... 2007-04-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZTL7Q An exhibition of art by Fuji Finepix, a Japanese conceptual artist, opens at the National Gallery in London today. Drawing his inspriration from a combination of pointillism, developed by George Seurat in the 1880s, and the rather more contemporary concept ... 2007-03-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZTQUR Via Guardian Unlimited, we learn of an interview on Shacknews with Alex St John, the former Microsoft guy who helped transform Windows' printing architecture, and fathered the DirectX system. On page three of that interview we find a couple of paragraphs that ... 2007-03-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZSBML I remember when I first saw Windows NT (was it version 3.11 or version 3.5?). It was a revelation. There was the familiar Windows 3.11 user interface in all its glory, but the cursors moved! And there was a choice of lovely new cursors too, to make the ... 2007-03-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZRM65 Now you too can watch cheddar cheese maturing in real time. See also: Hellish dark and smells of ... 2007-03-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZRKAE This can only be a good thing. Computer giant Dell will start to sell PCs preinstalled with open source Linux operating systems, the firm has said. The second largest computer maker in the world said it had chosen to offer Linux in response to customer ... 2007-03-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZQQ7E Not here, Volker ... 2007-03-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZPQMJ See also: YouTube Video ... 2007-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZPR2W Memo to Microsoft: This is a Dell laptop with an OEM Windows license supplied pre-installed. I didn't steal that Windows license and feel no obligation to offer you any further reassurance to that effect. Please do not offer me that ... 2007-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZPKDW You all know about this by now Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations) As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I'm not. I'm ... 2007-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZPJPB Is this what I've become? A mere generator of content to be harvested by sploggers and selectively mis-quoted on splog sites replete with Google PPC ads, the said ads being the sole reason for these sites' existence? Recent example - my piece entitled ... 2007-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZMRB8 I am indebted to Roger for drawing to my attention the fact that you can find plenty of performances by Martha Argerich on YouTube. This one is a blurred, black and white video. The sound is wobbly and out of sync with the picture and the last few ... 2007-03-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZMNXA 1. Windows Mail bug may expose Vista users The impossible has happened. A real life, exploitable hole in Vista! A possible security vulnerability in Windows Mail could let attackers run applications on PCs running Vista. An attacker could send an ... 2007-03-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZKJG2 (Seen when launching Notes 8 Beta 2 - not for the first time.) Update: Rich - Not ... 2007-03-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZKJ7X Another pearl of wisdom from Windows® Error Reporting. A stop error requires you to restart your computer. Who ... 2007-03-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZJFEF  For the benefit of future visitors - no, you didn't win the Microsoft lottery.Do NOT contact these people to claim your prize.  "Microsoft" writes in an email to a spamtrap. And I ... 2007-03-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZGQB4 McDonald's seeks 'McJob' rewrite The UK arm of McDonald's is planning a campaign to have the dictionary definition of a McJob changed. The Oxford English Dictionary says it is: "An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by ... 2007-03-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZGEX9 Sorry, vowe. ;-) STING ... 2007-03-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZGCEK On hearing the news this morning that the basket of items used by the Office of National Statistics to calculate price inflation has been updated, I did start to wonder - are we comparing apples with apples? For those not in the know, the ONS has a ... 2007-03-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZFFN9 Gmail added a new feature a while back which has proved to be unexpectedly useful. You can now ask Gmail to poll up to five POP mail accounts. Email from polled POP acounts is delivered to the Gmail inbox and optionally labelled so that you can easily see ... 2007-03-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZFD8V ... 2007-03-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6ZALTZ Over there at utoronto.ca, Chris Siebenmann posted a nice little piece on this subject the other day. The problem with raised floors is that over time all sorts of things accumulate down there below the floor tiles, because they aren't in people's way to ... 2007-03-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Z9E8T ... 2007-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Z9E35 Is there an ND8 beta forum over at developerWorks? I can't find it. Post a link if you know where it is. ... 2007-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Z8FSY A reader takes me to task for not joining the rush * to announce the public availability of the Notes/Domino 8 public beta. Sorry, Bart, but I think everone knows by now ... 2007-03-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Z5FDS Microsoft Anti-Virus Having locked the competition out of the kernel of its new OS, Microsoft certainly needs to convince users of the efficacy of its own anti-virus offering, OneCare. Setting aside the anti-trust question for now, if Microsoft can ... 2007-03-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Z4M53 ... 2007-03-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Z2RW6 ... or perhaps it was a prison, a beautiful, disturbing ... 2007-03-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YZEQ5 Over at the Beeb, Tim Weber, Business editor, BBC News website, falls into the Vista trap - and he doesn't like it ... 2007-03-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YWDUG Now is the best of times and the worst of times. Bear with me while I ... 2007-03-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YWDK5 1. Net firms tackle Vista headache Windows Vista is causing problems for some new PC owners hooking up their machine to a broadband connection. Some old installation discs that simplify the task of configuring a PC for broadband have refused to work on ... 2007-03-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6YVJEL Superseded - see the FAQ category for the most up to date version.To make things a little easier for people coming here for the first time, I have updated my brief list of posts which readers may find helpful. Regular readers (and anyone else for that matter) ... 2007-03-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YVFEU The WOW really starts now? I think he meant The WAR really starts now. You may have heard of the Microsoft Vista marketing campaign by now with the slogan of 'The WOW Starts Now' and I have to agree the WOW really does start now, I just bought my first ... 2007-03-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YUCMU People occasionally ask me why I do what I do (note to self: that FAQ page is due for an overhaul). I suppose paying forward is as good an explanation as any. Volker expressed this very eloquently: If you ever ask yourself, why I am doing something because ... 2007-02-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YUCKY It's all so clear to me ... 2007-02-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YTDFF Ed Bott points out a new development in the ultra-reliable, super-secure and just generally ever-so-fit-for-purpose OS that is Windows Vista: Last year, when Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy infrastructure for Windows Vista, I was skeptical. Here's ... 2007-02-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YSS6A A post at Slashdot draws attention to Symantec's assertion that Vista's UAC warnings can't be trusted. Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC), a system that Microsoft says makes the new operating system safer from attack, can be spoofed and shouldn't ... 2007-02-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YSEVY So says the subject line and the body of a trapped spam here last Thursday. There's a single link to a web page - which we are presumably meant to assume to be a source of more information on Mr Howard's non-fatal loss of auditory capacity - containing a ... 2007-02-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YPF2F Non-British readers may be unfamiliar with the British number plate phenomenon. Car number plates here have had a variety of different forms over the years, but the one thing they all have in common is that people try to spell things out with them using ... 2007-02-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YPEWB Share and enjoy Don's comment (slightly edited) - #8 in this ... 2007-02-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6YNEGQ Domino sites sometimes need to support users using non-Notes client software, for example Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird. Such email only clients need to be able to receive email via POP3 or IMAP, and also to be able to send via SMTP. Using a ... 2007-02-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YMM3X Now now now now now. (Sorry, ... 2007-02-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YMLL2 1. Bill Gates "People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then." 2. Steve Jobs "If the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free [on CDs *], what benefits do they get from selling the remaining ... 2007-02-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YMFXT We were down in Somerset a few days ago and found ourselves at Wookey Hole, near Wells. Wookey Hole is a series of caves and is the source of the River Axe, which rises underground somewhere in the vicinity and emerges near the mouth of the first chamber. ... 2007-02-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YDFHE Something happens to the family PC every year around this time. It starts to pop up windows saying that my subscription to Norton Internet Security is expiring and offering me options. Those options are usually a) buy a new license key and continue to use the ... 2007-02-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YDCAS Here's a little treasure that popped into view on opening a bounced email. Where's the ... 2007-02-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YCSH7 ... 2007-02-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6YAUJ5 Another shot from the Linfoot archive. Taken on Ilford XP2 colour process mono film, using a Pentax MX manual SLR with a Pentax 24-35mm zoom ... 2007-02-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Y9CSU A few days ago, Technorati announced a new feature named WTF. I confess to a slight double take when I saw this on the Technorati home page. In fact, "WTH?" (what the heck?) was my initial ... 2007-02-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Y7FN6 Via the SANS ISC Handler's Diary, I found this - Nolisting - Poor Man's Greylisting. How does Nolisting work? It has been observed that when a domain has both a primary (high priority, low number) and a secondary (low priority, high number) MX record ... 2007-02-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Y6K7W ... 2007-02-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Y5CB4 You can't have missed a little hobby horse I've been riding around recently - the most broken feature in Domino SMTP; Verify connecting hostname in ... 2007-02-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Y2DXW ... but to really muck things up, you need a computer ... 2007-02-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Y2CS7 It's been a while since we've done this, but let's look at how some googlers reached this site last ... 2007-02-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XZR8P Via HowManyofMe.com, the Power of the Schwartz has been increased from 42 to the rather more sinister 666. Let's see my ... 2007-02-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6XYKQQ Rhetorical question. I'll tell you the answer. Verify connecting hostname in ... 2007-01-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XYKHC There have been two attempts to get spam into my Notes in-box so far today, one successful. Actually, there have probably been countless others but the DNSBLs still seem to be working. Why mention this? Well, both of the spams in question were addressed to ... 2007-01-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XXCV3 Bit of a flap overnight. The Microsoft PR machine has been very busy encouraging reporting of the delayed successful consumer launch of Vista. It's been going down a storm in Japan, apparently. Mind you, Japanese consumers will buy almost anything (thanks, ... 2007-01-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XXC7C Mitchell and Webb, a well known comedy team from the Beeb Beeb Ceeb (often seen on the Beeb's digital channel, Threeb), are doing the UK versions of the famous Apple ads. Very ... 2007-01-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XUSPS The Wii news channel went live here yesterday. You need to do an on-line system update to get the news functionality. It seems to work pretty well so far. Loads of pictures of it at ... 2007-01-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XUPRN Her: You're going to wear that, are you? Me: Yes I am, thank you dear, yes. Her: You just haven't a clue, have you? Me: You wouldn't understand, dear - it's called 'style'. With hindsight, she may have had a point. And for extra credit, where ... 2007-01-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XSLHR Life was simpler ... 2007-01-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XQN3C ... 2007-01-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XQFXF At the Beeb, 'Thieves' tracked via satellite. Three men have been arrested for allegedly stealing global positioning systems mistaken for mobile phones. Fourteen GPS systems were stolen last week from a warehouse in Babylon, New York. They were to be used ... 2007-01-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XPDLC I've been tagged. Again. I am not at Lotusphere I am truly sorry for my cruel hoax on Friday - sorry Dec and Bruce. I am Spartacus There is no item 4 on this list OK. There was an item 4, but certainly no item 5. Oh forget ... 2007-01-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XPCMG ... 2007-01-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XMV3T Well, if not a zombie, then at least undead: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Neither gunfire nor two days in a refrigerator could slay this duck. When the wife of the hunter who shot it opened the refrigerator door, the duck lifted its head, giving her a ... 2007-01-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XMHMJ I scored a 277 on Wii bowling yesterday - 9 strikes in a row. Thought I was doing pretty well, till I saw ... 2007-01-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XLGJE I'll be too busy to post. If you see me you can buy me a ... 2007-01-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XLFRZ Jerry Carter suggests I don a white hat and publish a list of the 311 IP addresses in that bot net that attempted unsuccessfully to post a load of spam trackbacks here the other day. That's 311 out of 4,294,967,296 or 0.00000724% of IPv4 - small drop; big ... 2007-01-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XJCA5 Look what the kids made for me *. Tastes better than it looks... * With a little help from me, though I was unaware of their ultimate intention at the ... 2007-01-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XHE9Y If someone sends you, a Notes user, an HTML email today, it may well render looking something like ... 2007-01-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XGFXH The Idiots Who Thought of This should be Sued Imagine — some marketing yahoo at a radio station comes up with the idea of "Holding Your Wee for a Wii" that left this 28-year old mom of three kids aged 10, 3 and 11 months dead of water ... 2007-01-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XEF3A There is something unbalanced about the jaunty normality the man imports into approving a course of conduct in its fourth year of calamity. ... 2007-01-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XDGPH An article in the Metro (a free newspaper in the UK) caught my eye the other day: Nights in January are warmer than July Nights this month have been warmer than those during last year's record-breaking summer, weather experts have said. So far this ... 2007-01-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XCNAL Ed asks, Have we hit the "who cares" point with spam? Specifically, he wonders whether it is worth trying to obfuscate email addresses posted in on-line forums as some people used to do. That never worked (it is security by obscurity, which is ... 2007-01-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XCJKZ There have been 1,940 attempts to post spam trackbacks here in about 4 hours today. Of these, 1,805 succeeded in creating trackback documents, while the rest used various broken methods which failed to do anything. None of the 1,805 was ever published ... 2007-01-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XCHFM Dominic White has published a nice little demonstration of the Adobe Reader XSS vulnerability patched by Adobe Reader 7.0.8. This will: Check to see if you are vulnerable Direct you to the download page for the update if you ... 2007-01-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XBL4K QV that item yesterday regarding unwanted additional DNS lookups on a W2K Domino server. Say you have two servers named domino.example.com and webserver.example.com which both resolve publicly. Go to your W2K Domino server (domino.example.com) and start ... 2007-01-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6XBKMC Comment #10 ... 2007-01-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XBEBF I typed "resellers". Notes suggests "repellers". Seems about right to ... 2007-01-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XAQA5 And I want one of these... One notable quote: It's like BlackBerry without an Exchange Server. Wait. I already have ... 2007-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6XAH9Z A reader writes with an interesting ... 2007-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6X9CTL More developments in the DNSBL ... 2007-01-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6X7U9R Look what I caught the kids watching on the ... 2007-01-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6X5HDH Professional what? Are there also Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Small Business, Enterprise and Ultimate ... 2007-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6X3FUK Or when the cat's away... What were we saying about the human element the other day? Trawling through just some of the vast archive of trapped spam that has accumulated here over the festive season, I am struck by one recurring theme. A significant ... 2007-01-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WXJGJ More news from the statements of the bleeding obvious department. (Thanks, ... 2006-12-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WXG2F Is MS buying bloggers? It seems that Microsoft and AMD have partnered to hand out some nice Christmas presents to select bloggers. Microsoft has reportedly sent out new AMD-equipped Acer laptops in an effort to get prominent bloggers using Microsoft’s new ... 2006-12-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WVJCE Over at the Beeb, more idle speculation on that vexed pair of subjects, Vista and ... 2006-12-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WUF7E Or, as we traditionally intone at Christmas, nintendamus igitur. Unpacked the kids' new surprise yesterday, a Nintendo Wii, and had it hooked up and working within a few minutes. As it is physically located within inches of our broadband ... 2006-12-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WQQN9 The Open Relay Database is closing down: We regret to inform you that ORDB.org, at the ripe age of five and a half, is shutting down. It's been a case of a long goodbye as very little work has gone into maintaining ORDB for a while. Our volunteer staff ... 2006-12-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WPLRG RSS readers please visit my site to vote in the current poll. Here's what it's all about. A while ago I wrote that "Verify Connecting Host Name in DNS" pre-empts both local and DNS whitelists. The usefulness of "Verify Connecting Host ... 2006-12-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WPKGZ ... 2006-12-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WNGVC Steps to a ruined Thunderbird installation, and recovery the hard way: Launch Thunderbird. Notice that it has downloaded an update and is offering to install it for you. Accept the offer and let the installation commence. BSOD - IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ... 2006-12-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WMJPJ I need one BlackBerry to connect to two Notes/Domino mailboxes. Only one of these also needs calendar sync; the other is mail only so I guess POP/IMAP might do it. The BlackBerry in question is served by BES. Any ... 2006-12-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WMH3B Volker seems to be having some success with his campaign for real jam. Just in case anyone is stuck for ideas, I'll settle for: Craster Kippers Smoked salmon or a nice piece of Stilton That's just in case you're ... 2006-12-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WMH2F Could this be why Skype just crashed ... 2006-12-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WLGF2 This is interesting. "People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then." William H. Gates III; December 14, 2006 Does that apply to DVDs ... 2006-12-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WLFJY A few days ago, the SANS ISC Handler's diary revisited an old chestnut - malformed MIME. Over on Quantenblog, they're reporting that malformed MIME attachements can, in some cases, be used to bypass email AV filtering.  It works like this:  because email ... 2006-12-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WLEMK Like London buses, I'd not seen a LinkedIn invitaion for ages, then two turned up at once. Thanks Tom and Bill. Now, would you care to do the same thing over at Xing ... 2006-12-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WLE5C Since the introduction of "Chip and PIN" cards for all credit and debit card applications in the UK, there has apparently been a drop in most types of card fraud. Most obviously, while it is still possible to "skim" a card and make a copy ... 2006-12-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WHQAL Vista isn't compatible with SQL Server. Microsoft has a problem. Vista, its long-awaited update to the Windows operating system, can't run the current version of SQL Server. The company is working on a SQL upgrade that is compatible with Vista - called SQL ... 2006-12-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WFCSW According to this morning's spam, I like the ones on the left and girls like the one on the ... 2006-12-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6WHQ86 Comment #9 ... 2006-12-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WELT7 A while ago I wrote that "Verify Connecting Host Name in DNS" pre-empts both local and DNS whitelists. I was reminded of this again today by a reader who says: In our view, this is counterintuitive to the point that it should be classified as ... 2006-12-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WDH95 More news from the "you can't make stuff like this up" department. The Bishop of Southwark threw children's toys from the parked Mercedes before being pulled out, falling over and cracking open his head. Asked what he was doing, it's claimed ... 2006-12-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WCS6R ... 2006-12-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WACMS Microsoft sails through document standard vote A vote to make Microsoft Office document formats an international standard was approved on Thursday, according to a Microsoft representative. At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, ... 2006-12-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WACJM "Mum, there's a letter in my bag about milk and headlice." I don't know why, but I was amused by the juxtaposition of these topics which would ordinarily not be discussed simultaneously. The parents among you may understand this. Non-parents ... 2006-12-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6WACDY Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Retail Price $899.00 Our Price $79.95 You save $819.05 That didn't take ... 2006-12-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6W8K34 You may remember the Spamhaus idea of a new TLD, .mail, to be used by trusted mail servers thus creating a bus lane for trusted mail servers. Sadly, that idea appears to have withered on the vine. I remembered this recently while reading an article over ... 2006-12-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6W5NLR (Oh alright, Russia then.) On browsing through a menu, very helpfully provided in English, in a restaurant in Russia the other evening, I was moved to write down (in every case, sic) the names of some of the more exotic ... 2006-12-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/HOME-6VZFFA Here's a story which has caused me considerable amusement over the past day or so. An e-mail showing a man being decapitated has resulted in 140 Hertfordshire police officers and civilian staff being disciplined. Eight police sergeants were given formal ... 2006-11-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VUC9D And another gripe. Some people like to use the "Reply with History" feature when responding to an email. This is not usually particularly valuable as it is reasonable to assume that the party to whom you are replying is aware of the content of ... 2006-11-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VSJSF Just a quick ... 2006-11-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VSCWA At first sight, a common or garden pump n dump ... 2006-11-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VRHLH Jan-Piet writes to point out that all is not well with Gravatar. I've had Gravatar enabled here for a long time now, but few people seem to use it and now the service itself seems to have died, so I have disabled it. This Pavatar thing looks ... 2006-11-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VQKU3 Ben writes to draw my attention to GiveMeBackMyGoogle - GoogleTM results without the annoying affiliate links. I'm not often annoyed by affiliate links actually. I suppose it depends on what you search for. All GMBMG appears to do is take your query ... 2006-11-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VQDAE As you will know if you are a Gmail user, Gmail automatically purges messages that have been in the spam folder for more than 30 days. You do now have a one click delete all now option for spam, but I don't use it. I like to keep an eye on the amount of spam ... 2006-11-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VKRUE Matthias Leisi posts a comment on an earlier story here entitled "testing a DNS whitelist". In it, he draws my attention to the existence of dnswl.org. dnswl.org offers a list of IP addresses of 'known good senders' in multiple categories ... 2006-11-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VFUVK ... 2006-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VEESJ Look what I just installed on my BlackBerry 8700. It's a Gmail client delivered as a Java application which, when installed on a BlackBerry, appears on the Applications menu and it works really well. - far better in fact than the already pretty good Gmail ... 2006-11-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VEEN7 There's plenty of discussion over at dW on the subject of phantom Notes client mail rules. That's not the problem here. I have one server where 85 mail rules are defined and active. There were 86, but one was first deactivated, then deleted. That deleted ... 2006-11-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VDLXG More news from the you can't make stuff like this up department: Backside firework prank backfires A man suffered internal burns when he tried to launch a rocket from his bottom on Bonfire Night. Paramedics found the 22-year-old bleeding, with a ... 2006-11-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6VBRWA WARNING: Only British people of a certain age will understand this. Everyone else move along; there's nothing to see here. I am embarrassed to report another lapse of shopping etiquette by my Dear Lady and myself. On entering a hardware store the other ... 2006-11-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6V5S7A I was blissfully unaware of the fact that my recent rush of blood to the head, followed by an inexplicable urge to upgrade * IE to version 7 on the family PC, had led directly to the premature death of my scanner until this sad fact was brought to my ... 2006-11-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6V5MU3 Got my first 8100 (Pearl) the other day and decided to set it up the way we always set up our BlackBerries (up to now a mixture of 7100 and 8700 devices). That method is to plug into a USB port on the BES server and allocate it to a user with a right click. ... 2006-11-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6V4LYY As none of these ever reach our users, I have not bothered to mention them before ... 2006-10-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6V4E7A This was time consuming, but has proved effective. I suspect that you, like many others, have seen a significant increase in spam over the past weeks and that most of it has been pump and dump *. Even Volker was moved to comment on it, so it must be ... 2006-10-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6V3JN6 Here's a Christmas present idea, spotted in a recent spam. It's a USB powered cup warmer, said to keep coffee or tea * between 50-60 degrees **. Owners of Dell laptops or like devices employing Sony batteries probably won't be too interested however - ... 2006-10-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UZV9M Another shot from the linfoot archive: This is Cragside, Lord Armstrong's country seat in Northumberland taken in 1993 on Ilford XP2 (colour process, monochrome ... 2006-10-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UUBZP ... 2006-10-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6USMDS Yes, that Stratford. But not strictly overheard though... This is an actual sign, seen outside a shop in Stratford ... 2006-10-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6URFGE A reader writes: We are a Domino 7 shop with a growing spam problem. Many of our spams come without a valid PTR record. I thought we could stop them all by turning on the Verify connecting host in DNS. But then I saw a posting where you said not to turn ... 2006-10-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6URCK5 Just recently we've seen a large and increasing number of v14gr4 spams delivered by zombies, often in newly allocated IP space and frequently from Africa or Eastern Europe. Many of them have an added nuance, the use of a single pipe character as HELO. ... 2006-10-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UQJQ2 Here's a little poem composed of the exact subject lines of four consecutive spams that landed on the Blackberry overnight: diskette redundant foe discretionary Goldjobs Newsletter blood type Not a haiku, but charming in its own ... 2006-10-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UQJ4W Something wacky's brewing over there in Ontario. Ontario's privacy commissioner has thrown her support behind an on-line identity system that will be grafted onto the bare bones of the Internet to create a security layer that could kill off the nastiest ... 2006-10-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UPCKP Volker has passed a significant milestone - 7777 posts on his blog personal web site. I'd have posted a comment to the effect of "well done, Volker, and may there be many more posts to come", but there were 7 comments there already which seemed ... 2006-10-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UNFZE Something a colleague said a moment or two ago put me in mind of the famous RFC1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers - published 1st April 1990 and not, so far as I am able to ascertain, a standards track RFC. It must have ... 2006-10-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UNFJN Look what appeared on one of those large advertising hoardings, of the type typically owned and operated by Clear Channel, which I pass on my way to work most days. This one's bigger than the side of my house and it's an ad for something few consumers ... 2006-10-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UGEEZ ... but wish I did: The Spamhaus case This can't end well, sadly. ... and am very glad I don't: Asbestos A storm in a ... 2006-10-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UGDQH Spam ... 2006-10-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UGCPW Following several crashes like this one since the 7.0.2 upgrade, we have turned off TNEF conversion on inbound messages: ############################################################ ### FATAL THREAD 13/14 [ nsmtp: 0930: 07e0] ### FP=0x0d19ed7c, ... 2006-10-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UFFBL Here's a BSOD I saw for the first time yesterday (not an exact replica, but you'll get the ... 2006-10-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UFCTE Remember ... 2006-10-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UEKE7 Remember that little brouhaha about WGA and its anticipated evolution into a Windows kill switch? Over at Ed Bott's Microsoft Report - For Vista, WGA gets ... 2006-10-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UEK9B From the Domino 7.0.2 release notes: Domino Server Allow for basic authentication of some URLs Domino 7.0.2 allows certain URLs, for example those that generate RSS feeds, to use Basic Authentication, even if Domino Session Authentication is in ... 2006-10-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UBG9V Bruce reports a long delay (was it really 86 minutes?) in getting Nomad installed on a USB key. With that in mind, and because once fully configured a Nomad key is specific to one particular user, I have devised a very simple way of speeding things ... 2006-10-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UAM5U 1. Native handling of TNEF attachments in Domino 7.0.2 This works best if you turn it on, which you do using a notes.ini switch (TNEFEnableConversion=1). It is off by default so you must actively decide you want to use it - it won't just ... 2006-10-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UAH8A Free Sametime for Dummies books. (Thanks, ... 2006-10-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6UACFV Here's an old tip but a good one. I think it worthwhile to mention it now because of the recent release of 7.0.2 with its bundled blogging template and because of Declan's fine work so far on Blogsphere 3. Aside: I remain a Blogsphere man myself, not ... 2006-10-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U9PC6 Here's a story at the Beeb which I enjoyed yesterday: Microsoft is taking security risks with its forthcoming Vista operating system, says software firm McAfee. The security specialist has taken out a full-page advert in the Financial Times to alert ... 2006-10-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U7LGF And speaking of phish, here's an interesting new site brought to you by those nice people who brought you ... 2006-10-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U7HUF On the subject of recalled Sony batteries: "On a related note, we would like to take this opportunity to point out that although everyone is referring to these as 'Zippo' batteries, they are of course, not actually made by Zippo at all. "Zippo ... 2006-10-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U7BRE See also: Email Fraud Warning at bmwusa.comHot on the heels of the strangest phish I have ever seen, another very similar one this time from BMW, not ... 2006-10-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U4CEY In case you missed it, this post is the result of Smorgasblog from earlier in the week. I am indebted to Mark Schultz for his help in further enhancing the D7 enhanced mail ... 2006-10-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U4BGQ Is anyone actually using Google Reader? Today, Google Reader announces a new user interface: I imported a long OPML list of feeds when Google Reader was first launched and have almost never used it as the old UI was so bad. The new one looks better ... 2006-09-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U3R7B OK. Who drew the Lenovo ticket in the Sony battery sweepstake? Your prize is 526,000 dud batteries. Next ... 2006-09-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6U2GDV So says the Beeb today, at any rate. But wait. Surely we already have a ... 2006-09-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TZPQR This is not ... 2006-09-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TZPJE A little peer pressure seems to work sometimes - even on ... 2006-09-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TZCFA As I'm rather busy at the moment I have little time to post lots of stories here (much though I would like to). I have had several approaches from readers with suggested topics so here's what I'll do. Here are some recent suggestions from readers. Notes ... 2006-09-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TZC22 At the SANS ISC handler's diary last week, Yet another MSIE 0-day: VML. This briefly led to a raising of the SANS Infocon to yellow on Friday, though it is green again now. Those with long memories will remember the fuss surrounding the WMF zero day at ... 2006-09-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TVJE2 Does anyone have Widsets running on a ... 2006-09-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TUKDC In a recent security audit the auditor, having failed to find anything hugely significant, did point out that some allegedly critical system databases on Internet facing Domino servers were open to anonymous access. When we checked, "some" was in ... 2006-09-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TSG8S 19/09/2006 13:07:04 Process c:\lotus\domino\namgr.EXE (3280/0xCD0) has terminated ... 2006-09-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TRDJG At the Beeb - Virgin bans 'fire hazard' laptops. Took them a while to get round to that, didn't it? And that brings the total of all airlines with similar restrictions to just three, so apparently the majority of airlines remain happy to allow ... 2006-09-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TPQ98 If anyone reading this is, or is acquainted with, a journalist, would they please, in the interest of sanity (especially mine) prevail upon the wordsmiths to stop,and I mean stop, using the cliché "The elephant in the room". More ... 2006-09-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TLJUJ You've doubtless seen a few of these now: The subject line of the spam itself ("tarantula") isn't giving much away, but the gif bearing the message is. The file name given in the MIME header for the message part containing the image is ... 2006-09-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TKSS6 The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery ... 2006-09-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TJB5N So says the email I have in my Thunderbird in-box here. But can I trust ... 2006-09-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TGMG2 Another shot from the Linfoot archive. London, 1983. Taken with a Pentax MX manual SLR, 50mm lens and Ilford XP1 colour process monochrome film at 400 ASA using available ... 2006-09-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TFKJX In late December 2005 through early January 2006, shortly after someone had exposed another bit of sloppy legacy code left in Windows by Microsoft since Windows 3.0 (the famous Windows Metafile), we saw the spectacle of an unofficial, third party patch being ... 2006-09-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TFFTL Sometimes I just feel like giving up. Is the entire world determined to ignore both standards and good ... 2006-09-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TE9DF I've been enjoying reading 42 @ 60 (1), a new blog by my friend Roger. Yesterday's post in particular, on the topic of the Blair departure timetable, amused me a great deal (although I can't honestly say I agree with the prediction at the end). Blair is ... 2006-09-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TDE9E Remember that little flap about Dell batteries spontaneously combusting? A user here, having reported a problem with his Dell battery to our helpdesk, came to me too as he didn't like the answers he was getting from Dell via the helpdesk. The issue was ... 2006-09-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TCLGZ Is anyone out there using any product capable of sending a Notes email as an SMS ... 2006-09-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TCGU8 User: I came across an interesting tool the other day that we might want to use here. My dentist issues automated, computer generated appointment reminders to his clientele. He used to have his receptionists do it. It occurred to me I could do this with my ... 2006-09-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TCC6N Technorati is not currently indexing posts here, so if you use Technorati as your blog reader, you probably won't see this (why even mention it, then?). I do not believe this has anything to do with my recent tweak which was intended to ensure that ... 2006-09-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6TBKUQ "Little Green Street off Highgate Road in Kentish Town is one of the oldest streets in London. "It's not very big, just eight houses on one side and two on the other. The houses were built in the 1780s are Grade ll listed and remain one of the ... 2006-09-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6T8J3C As we near the end of the summer hols here in the UK, this (1) is a pretty good way of keeping bored kids busy for a while. It is an on-line multiplayer game suitable for children of primary school age. It's very well put together and quite harmless, if ... 2006-09-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6T7J7K What do you make of this? "With Browzar you can search and surf the web without leaving any visible trace on the computer you are using. "Browzar is free, it only takes seconds to download and you don’t even need to install it, so you can ... 2006-08-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6T6HU6 Here's a serendipitous collision of subject matter. Norwich, a beautiful if remote city in the east of England, is rolling out free wi-fi across the city centre and a few outlying areas. Peter Cochrane has been testing it, so far with less than total ... 2006-08-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6T6FUR At the Beeb... Amazon begins taking Vista orders. I can see the queue from here. But what's this in the fine print, under "Product Details"? Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes That was ... 2006-08-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6T5C7T Quoth the spam: Spam: Good day to you bro! Me: And good day to you too, er, bro? (Have we met?) Spam: You crave to shoot like a film star… Me: How did you know? Yes. I've always wanted a big weapon, like Clint in Dirty Harry. After all, ... 2006-08-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6T4NA6 A month or more ago, after weeks of unusually high summer temperatures and after the government had been forced on several occasions to issue health warnings due to the heatwave*, weather forecasters here were making a dire prediction. They borrowed the ... 2006-08-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6T4E98 Most blogs probably have at least one old thread that seemingly won't die. Volker's Best. Blonde. Joke. Ever. is a fine example, still regularly attracting new comments along the lines of either "I don't get it" or "I do get it". I have ... 2006-08-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SZKF8 Not if you plan to do this to me... * And in case you are in any doubt about just how annoying this was, I had time to locate and plug in a microphone, launch Nero Wave Editor and configure it to use said microphone and record this sample directly from ... 2006-08-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SZK5X This has to be one of the strangest phish I have ever ... 2006-08-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SZCJJ If you use Blogsphere, you may have wondered why you don't see more referrers from Technorati. I think I know ... 2006-08-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SYJHR So says Mardin Amin, having allegedly described his (ahem) personal pump * as a bomb while passing through security at O'Hare. Half of America? Those would be the men, then. Does every man in America really own one of these? There are better ways, ... 2006-08-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SXG6P I am indebted to my good friend Roger for the unintended gift of a brace * of very fine Cley Smokehouse kippers. * I know brace refers to pheasants. I mean ... 2006-08-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SWLTZ You know that problem the Chinese have with spam? That they seem to be responsible for sending an awful lot of it, not to mention hosting the command and control infratructure for certain zombie networks? Well, they've cracked it: The Chinese government ... 2006-08-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SWFZS Remember that little problem that Mel Smith had in Scotland? Here's an even odder smoking related tale - Smoke's no joke for Tom and Jerry. A single viewer complained to Ofcom about scenes in Tom & Jerry depicting smoking. Apparently children copy ... 2006-08-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SVDC7 The big story of the 2nd Tuesday this month (you know, the day when Microsoft releases its patches) was MS06-040 - Vulnerability in Server Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (921883). LURHQ has a write-up here - MS06-040 Exploit: More Hype Than ... 2006-08-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SVCES One spam trap address here is getting hit rather a lot recently. The trap in question is a "Nadine" type address - an email address which has never been allocated to a real person and could not have opted into anything. The spam this Nadine gets ... 2006-08-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SVC59 Reports of the death of the .cm wildcard were greatly exaggerated. Perhaps they just took it down while they upgraded their servers to handle all that unexpected traffic. Here's what to do: Set up your system to use OpenDNS name servers. Disable ... 2006-08-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SUSVH Joe has 26 years under his belt. As of yesterday, I have a mere 13. To celebrate the occasion and, having found someone to look after the kids overnight (we took the dogs with us though), we checked in to this little place - the Green Man at Fownhope, a ... 2006-08-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SRKEN Here's an interesting article over at CircleID - When Will Google™ Become Generic? Currently, the term, "to google", is in Oxford English Dictionary with a lower case "g"... Today, anyone can manufacture a fridge, trampoline or a ... 2006-08-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SQHXC Packet switched networks are not new. In fact the concept of packet switching predates not only digital networks but their circuit switched precursors, analogue telephone networks. The very first packet switched network was inaugurated in around 1840 ... 2006-08-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SQHTM Anyone know where I can get a new one of these? The type with a split ring, preferably, not a badge holder as in the picture. Mine just broke ... 2006-08-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SQCDA Mere hours after the good folks at OpenDNS implemented an extension to their service to mask the Cameroon (.cm) DNS wildcard, the wildcard itself was removed. Oh well. There are other good reasons to use a sanitised DNS service ... 2006-08-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SPH99 Attention all chavbook (aka Dell laptop) users. Check your battery. You may want to do this before it spontaneously combusts. (Just checked mine and they're both ... 2006-08-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SMHL5 Rocky is apparently very happy with the service provided by OpenDNS and is recommending it to all his friends. So am I actually. I'm using it here and it works really well, but given my readership (email geeks, mainly) I feel I should just point out one or ... 2006-08-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SLE83 Look what I just caught first born doing to Bill. The Force is strong in this ... 2006-08-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SJENC I was impressed to see a comment on my earlier piece about the Cameroon (.cm) DNS wildcard by none other than David Ulevitch, founder and CEO of OpenDNS (I am not worthy). In it, David gave a hint that he was working on a solution to the .cm wildcard and ... 2006-08-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SHTYG I just love this post at The Magistrate's Blog (always a worthwhile read). If you are driving along while using your mobile phone, and if a policeman (who is passing by in his car) calls to you to stop using the phone, do not, repeat not, shout back to the ... 2006-08-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SHGGC Via the SANS ISC Handler's Diary, I bring you a fascinating research paper by Symantec entitled "Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis: A Broad Overview" (PDF link). This is a long piece though most of it comprises appendices, the main ... 2006-08-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SGD3H Should he or shouldn't he? According to my mate Roger, Mel Smith, of Smith and Jones and Not the Nine O’Clock News fame is currently playing Churchill in a play currently being put on at the Edinburgh Festival. Rather than puff away ineffectually on a ... 2006-08-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SGAZF No good to me mate. Try someone who actually does live in ... 2006-08-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6SFC59 Remember Sitefinder? Sitefinder was that wildcard A record that Verisign famously applied across the .com and .net TLDs a year or three ago. From time to time we see others engaging in the same subterfuge in order to generate click traffic, and monetise ... 2006-08-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SED9G We all know Ed as the single handed force behind the formidable IBM/Lotus marketing machine, but I can now exclusively reveal that his origins are as humble as anyone else's. The ad to the right here was recently placed on ZDNet by the recruitment agency ... 2006-08-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SBFE9 ... or why IBM/Lotus marketing has a mountain to climb. While chortling at the Domino/Exchange comparison pointed out by Vince, I stumbled upon another comment in the same thread which got me seeing red pretty ... 2006-08-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SBDN6 In the light of earlier revelations about vulnerabilities in Intel's Centrino device drivers, yesterday's SANS ISC Handler's Diary is interesting: Today, Jon Ellch and David Maynor presented more wireless device driver issues at Blackhat. As a demo, they ... 2006-08-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6SBBSJ Jerry Carter thinks I'm on some form of medication. I'm not, but I'm beginning to have some doubts about Joachim Haller (comment #4 in the linked thread). Joachim, is Notes/Domino the Phantom or 007? And when can we read part 2 of your perplexing little ... 2006-08-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6S7D33 That'll be $1.50, please. "Since the end of May, Beta 2 has been downloaded more than 3 million times…That's 500 percent more than what was expected," the spokeswoman said. "The fee helps offset the cost of downloading from the ... 2006-07-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6S7QPS That would be me at the helm of a 60ft narrow boat somewhere on the Grand Union canal, just north of Warwick. And yes, it is an Aussie bushwacker's hat... (Now playing: Back in the ... 2006-07-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6S2F4R ... 2006-07-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RYC8A ... or random thoughts on the bird sitting outside my bedroom window at 4am: Take two cows, Taffy, put them in a blender with some sea salt and cracked black pepper... Take Tucows, Taffy, one of the most popular download sites on the Internet... Take ... 2006-07-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RYQFW ... 2006-07-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RWGQE Neither one is new. Both have recently been dusted down and given new life by a new generation of would-be ... 2006-07-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RWCZS At silicon.com - UK loves Microsoft more than the BBC. Think of your favourite brand. If you're from the UK, apparently, you're most likely to be thinking of Microsoft. According to research carried out for branding consultancy Superbrands by YouGov, ... 2006-07-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RWCUA In an interesting paper entitled "Monthly Patch Release Schedules: Do The Benefits Outweigh The Risks?" (PDF link), Dominic White argues that they do not always do so. I ... 2006-07-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RWCR9 At the Beeb, Numbers cut through blogging hype. The Pew project interviewed 233 active bloggers. Most cited "my life and experiences" as a primary topic of their blog. This was followed by politics and government issues and ... 2006-07-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RTCQP ... or a Tube Dream. Take your pick. OK, so everyone has now had a chance to digest the explanation of net neutrality kindly shared with us by one Senator Ted Stevens. I still can't quite work out whether he's for it or agin it though, but a very ... 2006-07-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RSQRT ... 2006-07-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RPCN2 1. The visitor A senior member of the team here, who is a temporarily seconded from another organisation, gets all of his IT support from that other organisation. We provide an Internet pipe behind our firewall and NAT. He uses a VPN client to connect to ... 2006-07-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RNL8A ... DRM was bad for Microsoft, according to Cory Doctorow in his presentation at Microsoft Research entitled "DRM and MSFT: A Product No Customer Wants." Today, you can watch the video of that fateful presentation. Well worth an hour of anyone's ... 2006-07-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RMJ6T As of yesterday it is now official UK government policy to build new nuclear power stations as part of an overall package of measures designed to establish security of energy supply and reduce carbon emissions. I'm not about to debate the merits of that ... 2006-07-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RMAV5 (Thanks, ... 2006-07-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RLHBT (I know. Not Thursday.) This tip is particularly applicable to blogs hosted on Domino, most especially where the same image (*.jpg, *.gif etc) is often used on many different pages, for instance in a header block. It should also be useful in any web ... 2006-07-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RLDAD ... are waiting in aisle one. Over at the Beeb, the story you've all been waiting for - Microsoft shuts down Windows 98. Products affected by closing down the support system include Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me (Millennium ... 2006-07-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RKGEA This computer has an overall Vista performance rating of 1. It'd be higher, but it was let down by a small hard disk drive just barely big enough to hold Vista itself, plus one mp3 ... 2006-07-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RGK8E Iconic wallpaper for Linux users. Ironic wallpaper for Vista beta testers. Just make sure you tile it. Thanks ... 2006-07-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RGGJK Don't disturb me when I'm busy. I'm a man. I don't do that thing that women call multitasking (I call it lack of focus). So I was just embarking on my latest Vista experiment - trying it on a docking laptop system to see what I can break - and, as a ... 2006-07-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RGG8H Having been troubled by a lot of comment spam a while back, I implemented a similar tweak to the one described by Rocky. The comment spam stopped immediately and after a respectable interval, I removed the restriction on posting without an HTTP referrer and ... 2006-07-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RFLM5 Remember the heady days in the middle of 1995? Back when Windows first broke free from the shackles of the underlying DOS (1) and became Windows 95? One issue I seem to recall being significant was the availability of supported devices for the new OS. You ... 2006-07-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6REFDU A story over at silicon.com does little to shed light on WGA: Microsoft: Learn to love software licences Users' bad feelings 'are based on misunderstandings'...(1) Changes made last week to Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) licence management ... 2006-07-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6RDDS3 Time for a gripe. Some while ago we and a partner company of ours, both European and both legally using a trademark which happens to comprise three letters, applied for sunrise registration of the .eu domain name corresponding with that trademark. Our ... 2006-07-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RDC6Z It seems the bad guys are not beyond the odd attempt to exploit the controversy surrounding Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notification. Yesterday, we have the first sighting here of a spam with the subject line "*Pirated Software ... 2006-07-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6RCDG2 Christopher Byrne writes with a sighting of a new 419 twist - free money. All you need to do is supply: full house address identity, such as international (1) passport or drivers (2) license telephone number and fax Now. Why do you suppose he wants ... 2006-07-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6R9N7K Seen in a recent spam (as a GIF image): --I am happy with yOur visiting tOday Sir, I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here (http://[removed]) are bad. Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong.. My dog and I are still ... 2006-06-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6R8P9S Well, the ideal SMTP Inbound Controls tab, anyway. From the top and bear with me if it seems obvious at first - it gets better. These settings refer to any Domino server that is directly reachable on port 25 from the public ... 2006-06-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6R7H9X While some things about Vista are at least troublesome (1), one feature that has had a bad press undeservedly is User Account Protection. This attempts to do for Windows what sudo does for Linux in that even administrators do not ordinarily run at a high ... 2006-06-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6R6QPL It's a reasonable enough question. I've seen enough bogus DVDs to know one when I see one. I know stolen MP3s when they show up on BitTorrent. I see plenty of offers to buy Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop and other premium software at suspiciously low ... 2006-06-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6R4NQ2 Milo likes ice ... 2006-06-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6R2QPU Following that Times article on Sunday, which proclaimed that Microsoft was imminently to become Ozziefied, the Economist offers a much better article under an only slightly less awful pun - "Ozzie the wizard". His last name's Ozzie. Get over ... 2006-06-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6R2C3Z At the Grauniad WorldCupblog we find: If there were a contest for the title of "most stupid fans at the World Cup", two England supporters in Cologne who mislaid their car ahead of tonight's match against Sweden would certainly be in the ... 2006-06-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6R2B8M First I was curious. Then I was annoyed. Now I am simply amazed. I was curious because I didn't know why I kept being asked for permission to install Windows Genuine Advantage Notification, a "critical" (1) update which I had already ... 2006-06-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QZDCK Timeo danaos et dona ferentes or I fear visitors bearing laptops. A little while ago, I mentioned briefly that we have a small wireless LAN which we provide for the benefit of guests. This is a physically separate network in an RFC1918 range well out of ... 2006-06-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QYR26 DVLA Newsflash In order to assist other motorists in identifying potentially dangerous drivers, it is now compulsory for anyone with a lower than average intelligence and driving ability to display a warning flag. The flag (consisting of a red cross on ... 2006-06-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QYBM6 <old codger mode> I remember in about 1990 working on a very expensive computer system which had attached to it (among other things) 6GB of mass storage (hard disk space, DASD, whatever). Actually, it was 12GB comprising eight 1.5GB drives in an ... 2006-06-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QWGUB I'm a little tired of all the chatter that is going on about Scoble, Gates and Ozzie. In most businesses, managers are measured by results and I don't see any significant results delivered by any of these guys in quite a long time. The Times has an ... 2006-06-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QWE6B What do these have in common? They're different social engineering vectors being used to deliver the same malware. We've seen it before ... 2006-06-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QVQCH "Low in calories but packed full of ... 2006-06-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QVQBF ... 2006-06-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QSCM8 Anyone else having this ... 2006-06-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QSC3A ... and three days (another missed ... 2006-06-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QSBT4 Told you I'd regret ... 2006-06-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MHEQN This post now fully peer reviewed and correct For the purposes of illustration here, I have used 192.168.0.1 to mean the public IP address of your Domino SMTP/mail router server, domino.company.example to mean your Domino server's fully qualified host name ... 2006-06-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QRCA7 That little Google Related box is earning its keep. Look what it just dredged up on its News tab. Via Email Battles (1): IBM: The new Connector for Lotus Notes is not our problem Lotus didn't build it and Lotus doesn't sell it, so Lotus isn't supporting ... 2006-06-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QQQBG You may recall that I was having some trouble with Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notification the other day and wondered what might be wrong. At ZDNet, we have an answer: Millions of Windows users may unwittingly be test subjects for an unfinished ... 2006-06-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QQQ87 Over at darkreading.com, an interesting if depressing slant on social engineering as a network attack vector: We recently got hired by a credit union to assess the security of its network. The client asked that we really push hard on the social engineering ... 2006-06-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QPBKR I hope not but if you are this is interesting (via SANS ISC): Microsoft announced that they will not provide a patch for Windows 98 and ME for MS06-015 "Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution (908531)". The choice ... 2006-06-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QNPB2 People sometimes worry about the phenomenon of digital rot, arising from the fact that we are now so dependent on information stored and processed digitally that we risk losing control of valued content as formats and storage media change. Well, Ladies and ... 2006-06-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QLBPK At the Beeb: Windows users can now get their hands on a test version of Vista, Microsoft's new operating system. The software giant is letting anyone download or order a beta, or trial, version of the program. Downloading mine now. I wonder if VMWare ... 2006-06-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QKGXM Here are two screen dumps. One is from my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS test box and the other from ... 2006-06-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QKDDM I'd been looking forward to trying out Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) at home so downloaded and burned a suitable ISO at the earliest opportunity. Because my main home system runs a 64 bit AMD processor, I downloaded the AMD64 ISO. I had been running the i386 ... 2006-06-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QJFPM Just ... 2006-06-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QHH25 Yesterday's Dilbert * is getting printed out and put in a frame here... * Link valid for one month from ... 2006-06-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QHDT3 (Yes, I know it's not Thursday.) Rocky hates it when someone sends him an email with $KeepPrivate set. Actually so do I and of course, as Rocky and others have pointed out numerous times, it is not a security feature and can be interpreted as a veiled ... 2006-06-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QHASL The date of the ... 2006-06-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QGG8C Or Secure your WLAN (please) - a play in one act. User calls complaining about intermittent network connectivity. Better take a look. When I arrive, his system is amost completely unresponsive so I suggest a reboot before delving further. The system (a ... 2006-06-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QCQNB Read his comment (#5 in this thread). I can't decide whether he is serious or just 'avin a larf, but either way it kept me amused for, oh, at least 30 ... 2006-06-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QCFKF Little help? Does anyone have Ubuntu (or any Debian based distro) authenticating against an MS active directory? How, ... 2006-06-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QCD5Q Volker started an interesting discussion on the subject of Windows Genuine Advantage Notification a while back. I didn't contribute at the time but this thing is really beginning to get my ... 2006-06-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QAJRS I lost Exchange 12 the other day while surfing the software bonanza that is the Microsoft Office 2007 public beta 2. Actually, I still can't find it but it seems that Ed has. Oh dear. And don't you wish he ... 2006-05-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6QAFQE One of the main problems facing Vista is the need to get one particular genie back into its bottle. The genie in question is the assumption made by so many developers for so long that the software they were developing for the Windows platform would be ... 2006-05-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Q6GG4 What are ... 2006-05-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Q6BUA We've mentioned this before, but here's a slightly different sighting of The Bat! as a clearly forged X-Mailer... X-Mailer: The Bat! ({THEBAT_3_VER}) {THEBAT_3_TYPE} See those {variables}? Another neophyte spammer bought some spamware and forgot to fill ... 2006-05-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Q5QRY Two can play at that game, Volker. I reckon mine's worth more than $100, ... 2006-05-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Q5KF8 Yes, that does say Groove® and Groove® Server. Also SharePoint® and SharePoint® Server. There's Outlook® too, but where's ... 2006-05-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Q2QST While we're looking at old photos, here's one I took in 1976 when I was 15. I used a Kodak Instamatic 133 camera loaded with Kodachrome 64 transparency film. The camera itself was fixed focus/aperture and had two shutter speeds. The original image, ... 2006-05-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6Q2GWF A dozen or so of these stopped by the usual rule overnight - no attempt by AV to stop them. Seems Jamie Andrews has changed his ... 2006-05-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PVEC9 Remember this? It turns out that this chap was not a cab driver at all but was waiting in the BBC reception for a job interview. The job he was to be interviewed for was in IT support which may explain why he was able to have a pretty good stab at ... 2006-05-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PUDCV Here goes: NT FileName: "\\?\C:\test" NT FileName: "\\?\C:\test ... 2006-05-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PUB7V If you are using one of the later Blogsphere templates (starting, I think, with 2.5.1) that includes coComment support as implemented by Christian Brandlehner, please consider enabling coComment. As a Blogsphere blog owner, you don't have to sign up for ... 2006-05-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PTQSV Got a hit just now from a referrer claiming to be gppgle.com, which site appears to be a perfect replica of Google. There's a good reason of course - it is Google. Seems they have registered that common typo, perhaps others too (o and p are adjacent on ... 2006-05-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PTG57 Quite how this cab driver ended up on BBC News 24, being interviewed as Guy Kewney (inset) on the subject of Apple vs. Apple, I don't know. You must watch the video though. Truly ... 2006-05-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PTDV7 First born has one of these new fangled Nintendo DS thingies. One of the features of this device is the option for wireless gameplay. This requires a suitable wireless access point and at least one other user somewhere in the world who is also equipped ... 2006-05-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PRMYT This was Monkton Coke Works, near Jarrow (famous for the Jarrow march) on Tyneside in around 1982. It has since been razed. Why mention it? I took this photograph all those years ago using a Pentax ME Super SLR loaded with Agfa colour transparency ... 2006-05-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PQBNU ... is just marketing at work. Back in 2001, when XP was new and there was some controversy over the inclusion in it of full BSD-like raw sockets support, we were told: "... it would be hard to launch a DOS attack from an XP machine because the ... 2006-05-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PPDHZ A useful connectivity tip, to be used sparingly * when WiFi and dialup are not available but GPRS is. Did you know that your Blackberry (the more contemporary models at any rate) contains an IP modem that you can use to gain IP connectivity to your laptop ... 2006-05-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PNERL You may recall Tom Liston's discovery during his Bouncing Malware series of a familiar name and a career change. I mentioned it briefly at the time too. The name is Sanford Wallace and the career change, albeit a minor one, is from spammer to spyware ... 2006-05-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PNBHW Quoth the spam: "After investing with our program you will stop thinking about fin problems" I'm not sure whether they are offering a cure or just a diversion but, as I don't have fins, I guess I'll never ... 2006-05-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PME9C A number of people have expressed surprise at my assertion in my piece entitled "Populating your whitelist using Pareto analysis" that it is possible to use groups in the Domino Directory for whitelists. In fact it is not only possible to use ... 2006-05-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PGHDK A very short and simple tip this week. Now that you have identified wanted senders and whitelisted their systems you can safely use much stronger blacklists than before, both DNS and local. This will deny a lot of spam at source without the danger of ... 2006-05-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PFK9P Superseded - see the FAQ category for the most up to date version.To make things a little easier for people coming here for the first time, I have updated my brief list of posts which readers may find helpful. Regular readers (and anyone else for that matter) ... 2006-05-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PFBXJ Here's why - from El Reg, Ancient worm runs riot at Infosec. Yes, some muppet turned up to exhibit with a system compromised by Slammer, a more than three-year-old worm that could not prosper on any well maintained system. Pity they don't name the guilty ... 2006-05-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PEQVX ... 2006-05-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6PABRX ... but I do admire him. Here's why. John Kay, Chief Technical Officer at Blackspider reckons on a "bug per line of code". With the traditionally Heath-Robinsonian construction of MS browsers he's not hopeful for IE7. He said: "I dread to ... 2006-04-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6P9CX5 OK. Now we have a tool to measure mail volumes coming from external SMTP hosts, how do we use it? I have so far collected roughly two weeks worth of data which is enough for illustrative purposes. In fact the shape of the Pareto curve has been pretty ... 2006-04-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6P8JSZ In a comment here on this piece (about setting up SMTP TLS on a Domino server), Pierre Kerchner asks an interesting ... 2006-04-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6P8F5V ... 2006-04-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6P8DK2 You don't see a spam from Gmail for ages, then three turn up at once. Here's the ... 2006-04-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6P7D6Z Not in dictionary: hotmail Suggest: hot-air (could be), Hormel (not spam, ... 2006-04-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6P6EMQ El Reg reprints a SecurityFocus article entitled "Email authentication gaining steam". A host of software companies, security firms and internet service providers met in Chicago on Wednesday to urge corporations and bulk message senders to adopt ... 2006-04-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6P3LNA If you didn't read it already, you really should read this. All of it. Want to be convinced it's worth your time? Try a sample. Since the euphoria of PDC 2003, Microsoft's handling of Windows Vista has been abysmal. Promises have been made and dismissed, ... 2006-04-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NZHLY After a long wait, it's finally here - the impressively boringly titled ND7 whitelist preparation. Simple concept, already delivering useful results within hours of being made live here. Give it a whirl and tell me what you think. For Show-n-Tell (perhaps ... 2006-04-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NTHFE Here (via the Beeb) is a sorry little tale of time wasted. Home network hardware supplier D-Link has been accused of harming the net's ability to tell the time accurately. Detective work has found that many D-Link routers, switches and wireless access ... 2006-04-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NTEC9 ... 2006-04-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NSR3G Apropos the current masthead on his new blog, Chris Blatnick says: ...the image of the 'Mars Attacks' aliens marching on the Microsoft campus popped into my head... So, I fired up the trusty 'ol graphics editor and played around a bit. That's the result at ... 2006-04-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6NSDRF This diary piece at the SANS ISC grabbed my attention: Yesterday afternoon I got a phone call from a local non profit organization. A plea for help really. A year ago they were going through a change in leadership, board, etc. at the same time as their ... 2006-04-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NSBBF Just spotted a new variation on a tired old ... 2006-04-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NRKUX A reader writes with an interesting query. He is using a software proxy on his Domino server which accepts inbound email to port 25 and decides whether it is spam. On accepting a message for onward delivery, this software proxy then connects to the Domino ... 2006-04-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NMQHE ... that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Something Duffbert wrote a while back gave me a slight sense of deja vu. I couldn't put my finger on it until now so I thought I would share. Now, I'm no Microsoft apologist as you may have ... 2006-04-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NMBK4 As if to emphasise the more than usually depraved nature of whatever lurks behind that unclicked link in the latest farm porn spam, that spam goes on to say: Shhocking Fa__rm p0rnn baanned in 51 states! Yes, fifty-one states! I don't suppose the word ... 2006-04-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NLD8H In a comment on an earlier story here about identifying email sources for whitelisting, Rich makes an elegant ... 2006-04-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NKKC5 Over at CircleID - Interesting Facts About Domain Names Seems Dennis Forbes needed a large amount of real life data to use in testing database performance and scalability. He chose to requisition a copy of the .com root zone (about 3.5 GB). Having ... 2006-04-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NJHP2 I'm totally sick of these. Memo to spammer: I know what OEM software is and I don't care. Deal with it. Everyone else, just drop the above subject into a server mail rule and forget about ... 2006-04-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NJDA7 Regular readers may recall that OpenNTF Project I initiated last year, less than imaginatively entitled "ND7 whitelist preparation". This has its roots in: The inclusion in D7 of a native whitelist feature (both DNS and local). A suggestion ... 2006-04-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NJBQS Once again, Tom Liston adds his considerable (and metaphorical) weight to calls for timely release of patches by Microsoft. His suggestion: Release them early and let us beta test them. The Oompah Loompahs are, once again, hard at work, cooking up a fresh ... 2006-04-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NHCFQ Guess which album popped up on my playlist just now. Listening to one track in particular put me in mind of an incident in my past which baffled me then and still baffles me ... 2006-04-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NFBT6 Researchers at the university of Durham have posited the possibility of human transmissible computer viruses appearing within a matter of months. The discovery follows research by F-Secure which shows that destructive viruses of only a few bytes can be ... 2006-04-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NECSG This story at El Reg irritates me. The gist of it is that some spammers are now deliberately sending their spam to unknown recipients at known domains * but with a spoofed sender address where the sender is actually the intended victim. On being ... 2006-03-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NECKH MSN ego surf. Thanks ... 2006-03-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NDA69 Look what just showed up in my Gmail in-box. A warning from the Gmail abuse department that I must click a link and "confirm my e-mail" within 24 ... 2006-03-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NCJ8V Two object lessons in choosing Internet friends carefully 1. coComment I've recently been testing the coComment integration in Blogsphere 2.51 *. Last Friday it stopped working and the entire coComment domain appeared not to exist. After a little ... 2006-03-29 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NBJAF IBM Software developers: I know you pop in here occasionally, so just in case you are listening I have a feature request for you... It would be very nice if Domino SMTP would record in its received header whether or not a message was received with ... 2006-03-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NAEVN At .tHE pRODUCT - Stupidity always threatens Litigation. Share and enjoy. Thanks Dominic White. Update: El Reg has it ... 2006-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6NADM2 It seems that every time a critical vulnerability is discovered in a Microsoft OS component (and yes, that includes the browser), MS comes up with the same response. The Register: 'Critical' IE bug threatens PC users Oh dear, it's been a bad week A ... 2006-03-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6N7DZ3 At the SANS ISC, infocon has gone yellow. The reason? Exploits in the wild of a new and unpatched vulnerability in our old friend Internet Exploder. Plus ça ... 2006-03-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6N6S68 From 8 - 16 weeks: size doubled two car seatbelts eaten should have called him Raul - then he could say his own ... 2006-03-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6N6KVF At El Reg, Microsoft sets Apple straight on security (checking date - no, not April 1st). As crazy as it sounds, a member of Microsoft's security team has blasted Apple for failing to coordinate its security efforts and to issue proper security advice. ... 2006-03-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6N6JHS Since spotting that spam in my Gmail spam folder the other day, Loads of Google hits here wanting to know about, for example, '"[%from_name%]" <[%from_email%]> spam' Several more sightings in the Gmail spam folder (15 in the past 48 ... 2006-03-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6N5C9C At the Beeb, "Microsoft delays launch of Vista". Microsoft plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system to January 2007. It had originally aimed to launch Vista - the first major update since ... 2006-03-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6N4J64 ... 2006-03-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6N2NDP Who you are not You are not Spencer Tracey. You are not Phil Silvers. You are most assuredly not Peter Sellers. Who you are You are Steve Martin, creator of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Roxanne and The Man with Two Brains. Why have you spent more ... 2006-03-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MYKAQ A user complains that her friend attempting to email from somewhere in South America has received a hard bounce. This isn't hugely surprising but I offer to take a look. Fortunately she has samples of email sent by the same sender in the recent past which ... 2006-03-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MXLUY Another spam in the Gmail spam folder catches my eye. Here's why: From: "[%from_name%]" <[%from_email%]> To: <[%to%]> Spammy forgot to fill in the blanks ... 2006-03-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MXGF9 Overnight, a number of substantially identical messages were sidelined by one of our famous enhanced rules. Here's what they ... 2006-03-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MXDYQ A while ago, someone posted a suggestion to OpenNTF that Blogsphere be modified to include a random quote feature. I created an app once at work that would display a randomly selected quote in a corner of the header. It as very easy to implement using a ... 2006-03-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MWGQ7 I've had occasion to discuss the phenomenon of Gmail outbound relays being listed by Spamcop again just recently and so revisited the spam traps here to see whether I had accrued any fresh samples to go with the two I already ... 2006-03-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MVELM ... 2006-03-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MUCVV According to El Reg... I hope they're wrong though I fear they're ... 2006-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MUCN9 According to LURHQ, two incidents in ten months of a phenomenon they have dubbed "ransomware" are potentially the tip of an iceberg. At this time the infection vector is unknown. Infection reports are not widespread, so it is not believed this is ... 2006-03-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MRLA8 Here's a storm in a teacup. A man who threw away junk mail in a litter bin on his way to work is facing a £50 fine from his local council. [Name Removed], 24, from Hinckley in Leicestershire, is reported to have dumped the unwanted mail in a bin located ... 2006-03-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MREJL For Show-n-Tell Thursday. OK. It's Friday. Sue me. Here's a question that often pops up over at dW - how to run multiple SSL web sites on a single Domino server (recent example). Well, it's actually pretty easy once you know these facts: SSL sites ... 2006-03-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MPS8S Volker asked a day or several ago, "try to find out why Domino uses gzip compression for mail databases and not for other applications served by the Domino http task". Some time later, Manfred Dillmann offered a solution (to be used at your own ... 2006-03-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MPS3C Here's what's keeping the kids busy lately. Easily as addictive as Tetris in my ... 2006-03-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MPD4J Superseded - see the FAQ category for the most up to date version.To make things a little easier for people coming here for the first time, I have updated my brief list of posts which readers may find helpful. Regular readers (and anyone else for that matter) ... 2006-03-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MMFG7 What's Spammy been up to recently? Well, I'm getting a little tired of deleting spam comments with an unusual set of characteristics: They are posted (HTTP POST) by some spambot using either the comment or the trackback button They name as the poster's ... 2006-03-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MJCAN ... To talk of many things Of Show n Tell and ASWs Of credit whores and blogging And why the aggregator's broke And whether pigs have wings. (Sorry, Lewis Carroll) What follows is a subset of "Many ... 2006-03-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MGG2E The SANS ISC brings you this happy little tale of a professor at an unnamed American university who has set an assignment in his Computer Security class: Student is to perform a remote security evaluation of one or more computer systems. The evaluation ... 2006-03-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MGD6H It transpires from Bruce's ego-surfing discovery which I was able to reproduce that this is not a Google feature per se. It is a Firefox feature which Google has decided to make use of in order to speed things along for its Firefox ... 2006-03-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MGD2U The Famous Brett Watson has a very nice article over at CircleID entitled "What is Anti-Spam?". This is a well constructed and well thought out piece which stands on its own merit and needs no further comment from me. If you have time, please do ... 2006-03-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MFKQY Bruce points out an interesting Google factoid. While ego-surfing the other day I noticed that Google was doing something that I haven't seen it do in the past. When I googled "Bruce Elgort" Google goes out and hits my blog after clicking the ... 2006-02-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MFE5W Chris Miller posts an interesting piece entitled "Messaging News: The Urgent Need to Implement Authenticated Email". In it, Chris cites a paragraph from a Messaging News article (PDF) headed "What's New in Email Authentication?". I ... 2006-02-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MEJ8T According to the Beeb, there will only be six Vista versions to choose from despite earlier rumours of at least ... 2006-02-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MEE7B These VW ads are pretty amusing: Wrecking ... 2006-02-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MEE2X Forget what I said earlier. It isn't just paedophiles and DRM that could benefit from default Vista file system encryption. Some auditors appear to be obvious candidates ... 2006-02-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MDEF8 I see a very unusual phenomenon here this morning - a phish that actually hit my work in-box. I know about this because my Blackberry helpfully alerted me to it. Because I have nothing much else to do, I check the source of the message to see why none of ... 2006-02-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MBHWA Well at least my users are well trained. A short while ago one of them forwarded to me (and only to me as per my standing instruction) a copy of a dire warning she had received from an external sender. The warning was to do with a very new computer ... 2006-02-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6MBG9W One of my readers writes to ask my opinion on the future of Notes/Domino... Lately I've been hearing rumours from the Microsoft camp as well as from local MS partners here that IBM will discontinue Lotus Notes and Domino as we know it when version 8 is ... 2006-02-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6M9FBC ... 2006-02-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6M9CJ9 I agree with Ed when he says that Show 'n' Tell Thursday has exposed sizeable talent. I also agree where he points out the struggle to keep up with the huge and ever increasing number of high quality blogs and posts. Clearly some mechanism is needed to ... 2006-02-22 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6M8DWW Here's a little snafu that I could have avoided: Both errors go on to say " In order to share a Notes database, all users must use a Domino Server instead of a File Server." All users? Who else could be using these? Blackberry ... 2006-02-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6M4MXK ... 2006-02-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6M3PZM Over at the Beeb, UK holds Microsoft security talks. UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of Windows could make it harder for police to read suspects' computer files. Professor Anderson, professor of security engineering at ... 2006-02-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6M3PUT That picture was taken inside Kilmainham Gaol (as I know Paul and Dec both knew). Here's another (exterior shot of the Guinness ... 2006-02-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LZSJL Where is this and where might you have seen it ... 2006-02-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LUS7Y Nice to know I'm not being ignored at all, Volker. Not that I actually recall opining on the subject. I simply asked for a show of hands. Anyhoo, everyone please take the IBM Lotus Notes Bookmark and Workspace Usage ... 2006-02-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LUSE3 ... 2006-02-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LUDA4 I'll leave the poll open for a few days more as it still seems to be accumulating votes. The result does seem pretty clear though. A high proportion of Notes users * still use the workspace. Who knew? * At the time of writing, ... 2006-02-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LUD5V I have a friend * who has a home WiFi network and recently installed a remote video sender system (so his wife can watch cable in the kitchen or something like that). Problem is, these devices interfere. The TV picture as received at the remote end of the ... 2006-02-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LRJNC Ben writes with a Gmail spam sighting. Is it real? Well, spams purporting to be from Gmail are quite common though rarely actually sent by Gmail. Let's look at this sample. ... 2006-02-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LTEQB Volker started it. Rich picked it up. The debates raging in both of those places are all very interesting, but I want numbers. Please visit this site and vote in the poll. * * FWIW - every user and developer and administrator here lives their Notes ... 2006-02-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LSJ9M With only a week to go until Valentine's day, the spammers seem once again to be attempting to cash in on the season. Look what just showed up in my Gmail spam folder. (I wouldn't normally read this stuff, but the subject line caught my eye : ... 2006-02-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LRCRD Want to know why the UK is usually somewhere near the top of the chart for the greatest number of trojan infested "zombie" ... 2006-02-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-5SEJKH Tidying up my personal archives, I have come across some notes I took a year or two back while on a business trip in Korea. More than anything else, these show why I should stick with the day job and not contemplate a career as a writer. But, despite my ... 2006-02-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LNGZL I have a small number of BB 7230 devices here which were supplied as part of an old contract with Vodafone. That contract has ended and the devices are now mine, but they are locked to Vodafone UK. Anyone know how to unlock them for use with another network, ... 2006-02-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LKMCM Remember yesterday's piece about that latest Breplibot variant? This afternoon, we are seeing a veritable torrent of similar messages. All purport to be something to do with a publishing deadline and contain a single attachment, itself alleged to contain ... 2006-01-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LJKR6 This just in from Jamie Andrews of TotalBusiness.com (again) "We have been trying to get through to you on the phone today but you must be out at work, your photograph was forwarded to us as part of an article we are publishing for our February ... 2006-01-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LKCL4 Bruce points out two must see Microsoft Vista videos. Very amusing. Thanks Bruce. However, who needs parody when the real thing is at least equally funny? Over at Silicon.com yesterday, we have two videos of Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's ... 2006-01-31 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HZMCX Update Jan 30, 2006: There's another one of these circulating. To be sure you are in no doubt about this, the attachment is a virus. Do not open it.Well, the filters are alive with these things this afternoon: From (varies): Spoofed To: Victim Subject ... 2006-01-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LJFMS Let's get nomenclature out of the way first. We are talking about the virus commonly known as Nyxem-E and also known as Blackworm, MyWife, Kama Sutra, Grew and CME-24. If like me you are occasionally called upon to help friends and neighbours who may be ... 2006-01-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6L7GLK Which one? And ... 2006-01-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KXHSL Rocky announces 500 posts. This is the one thousand and second post here since June 2003. The thousandth post was "egoSurf". Where I gain in quantity, Rocky clearly has the upper hand in quality and also in diversity. Still - we ... 2006-01-27 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LEDJV El Reg breaks with tradition by actually mentioning IBM/Lotus collaboration technology in a piece entitled "Lotus collaboration suite blossoms". * This is a real curate's egg of a piece - good parts and bad parts - but it does prove that for once ... 2006-01-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LEH7L Go here. Subscribe to podcast. Laugh. That is ... 2006-01-26 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LDMJ5 Bloglines subscribers (and maybe others) are not seeing timely updates from here at the moment. There seems to be an issue with Feedburner timing out before it has read my source feed. Readers pulling my Feedburner feed (and you all do whether you think ... 2006-01-25 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LCDL5 <rant mode="curmudgeon"> What did we learn from day one? Jason Alexander is not the same as John Cleese. Apparently, quite a few brits have no idea who Jason is though in my experience he is well known and not just for Seinfeld. Put this ... 2006-01-24 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6LBJRA FUD is not confined to MS attempts to lure Notes/Domino shops into an "upgrade", it appears. Dominic White cites as FUD a paper on agentless patch management (PDF). He also coins a pithy definition for this type of FUD, calling it a ... 2006-01-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6L7GT5 F-Secure reports: When application in infected system sends data to network [sic], Feebs [the malware being described here] makes some extra checks. If it detects traffic to port 25 (SMTP default port) which looks like e-mail with MIME attachment, it ... 2006-01-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HYCYN I have written before about the issue of Gmail blacklisting, often by Spamcop and I suspect at least occasionally by others like SORBS. I was reminded of this yesterday when I received a reply to an email I sent to Paul Mooney last week. Paul had written ... 2006-01-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6CALWG Update 9 Nov 2005: See also Gmail, spam and blacklisting which explains the Gspam problem. If you arrived here from Wikipedia, that article may be more relevant. Update 5 Oct 2005: See also GSpam? - Part 2 which examines the Gspam phenomenon more closely ... 2006-01-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6L5BY7 It's that time of the year ... 2006-01-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6L2SUS ... 2006-01-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-5WADL5 If you arrived here looking for information on "SMTP fixup", a more relevant article may be found here. Google seems to offer the article below first for this search although it is probably less relevant to most visitors. In the normal course of ... 2006-01-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KYCB3 At your Domino console, issue a command "sho stat smtp", or use the Domino Administrator client to open your inbound SMTP server and look in the Statistics tab. The sample to the right is typical of one of our servers after it has been up for c. ... 2006-01-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KYG5Z Remember that patch for Exchange 5.0 and 5.5 I mentioned yesterday? The one that fixes the TNEF bug which, left unpatched, would will make thousands of Exchange servers ripe for the picking come 10 April 2006? El Reg brings us this fascinating ... 2006-01-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KXLKL Make a note of 10 April 2006. That is the date on which NGSSoftware has announced that it will give full disclosure of the MS-TNEF flaw that I mentioned earlier. According to Bugtraq: NGSSoftware are going to withhold details of this flaw for three ... 2006-01-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KXBUN Spotted a rare thing this morning - a non-spam in my Gmail spam folder. Moved it to the in-box to read it. It's from ITsafe, the UK government IT advisory service and it announces a newly available patch from Microsoft. Actually they almost always do but this ... 2006-01-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KWM8L Sorry, ... 2006-01-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KWDGY "Microsoft Security" Over at the SANS ISC Handler's diary, we see: Another WMF attack vector? We had hoped the chapter on WMF exploits had finally been closed, pending the patching of countless millions of vulnerable workstations of course. ... 2006-01-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6KVJ3U IPv6: Extinction, Evolution or Revolution? is the title of a lengthy, but fascinating piece over at CircleID. It seeks to examine why, despite what many see as a compelling case, IPv6 has not yet been widely deployed. If you have the time and are interested ... 2006-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KVGPL I have a friend (1) whose home computer running XP has its HDD formatted with NTFS. Recently he did an in place reinstall of XP (for reasons which remain unclear to me). So, an all new OS installation, but the entire contents of \Documents and Settings\... ... 2006-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-5Q7AUF Spotted a Google search for something along these lines in my referrals so... RFC1123 says (among many other things): 5.2.17 Domain Literals: RFC-822 Section 6.2.3 [cwl notes that RFC822 is obsoleted by RFC2822] A mailer MUST be able to ... 2006-01-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KSJTP In December 2005, only 11% of attempts to deliver inbound SMTP here resulted in the successful delivery of a non-virus, non-spam message to a real user In December 2005, 89% of inbound SMTP here was garbage (i.e. 11% was good). This is the worst ... 2006-01-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6A4FTK I was inspired by an exchange of views I had with one or two others over at CircleID yesterday (see also this post here, yesterday) to go back to my own data and plot a two year timeline. The result may be seen to the right here. The X axis is the ... 2006-01-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KSGB4 Any users of Softlinx Replix Domino Fax out there? I need to compare ... 2006-01-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K8J64 Update 6 Jan 2006: There's another Paycom virus doing the rounds. I have two samples here and neither is as verbose as the sample below. They just say "Dear Customer" and have a single attachment named Transaction and Billing Services.exe (or .zip). ... 2006-01-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KSCB3 Despite criticism in some quarters of his take on Microsoft's attitude to patching the WMF vulnerability, Tom Liston's robust stance * appears to have paid dividends and Microsoft has released an out-of-cycle (gasp) patch. Install it now. SANS ... 2006-01-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KRE5S In answer to a question raised with me a week or two back by Bruce, here's the list of DNSBLs I currently recommend, with some brief ... 2006-01-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JNDQY It's been a while since I last did this so, prompted by Ben Langhinrichs via Ed, I have taken a look both at browser usage here and for the first time at RSS readership. The browser picture here is remarkably similar to Ed's with under 50% now being ... 2006-01-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KRGRK ... 2006-01-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KRFWG Please read and comment on my RSS feeds suggestion over at ... 2006-01-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K9G43 Superseded - see the FAQ category for the most up to date version.To make things a little easier for people coming here for the first time, I have updated my brief list of posts which readers may find helpful. Regular readers (and anyone else for that matter) ... 2006-01-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KQBTU Read Tom Liston's post at the SANS ISC Handler's Diary entitled "Oxy-morons". Keen photoshoppers should proceed at once to create convincing Billy Wonka pictures. Bonuses are available for good oompa loompas too (hint: think Ballmer). And ... 2006-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KQHMZ Revisiting my earlier post, from the MS advisory quoted in Tom Liston's ISC diary piece: Customers who follow safe browsing best practices are not likely to be compromised by any exploitation of the WMF vulnerability. Users should take care not to visit ... 2006-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KPHVB We've spoken about this small matter of two nations divided by a common fable here before, but it still annoys me. Some time in the past, I daresay around the time of the Great War, when first American soldiers were this side of the pond in large numbers ... 2006-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KQBZK According to the Beeb, Nigeria hasn't enough of this stuff... So, if you were contemplating a reply accepting Prince Amanda's offer of 20% of his $25 million in return for helping him shift it, you may want to think ... 2006-01-04 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6GTDZX Some September ... 2006-01-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KPKVL Microsoft may release a patch for the WMF exploit next week on its regular patch day (2nd Tuesday of the month). That's the stable door taken care of. The horse, sadly, departed last ... 2006-01-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KPCU4 The SANS ISC describes the discovery of the .wmf exploit against Windows as a watershed moment. The flaw which allows executable code to be delivered in .wmf * pictures has existed in Windows since at least Windows 95, and of course Microsoft will ... 2006-01-03 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KNCV3 Quoting Tom Liston's piece in yesterday's handlers' diary: Looking forward to the week ahead, I find myself in the very peculiar position of having to say something that I don't believe has ever been said here in the Handler's diary before: "Please, ... 2006-01-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6KKE7L Little help? Anyone got a working Ubuntu setup with any USB WLAN adapter? How do you make it work? Update: The rt2x00 Open Source Project looks very ... 2005-12-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K9JCC Remember that Sober variant that went out as an email from the FBI, the CIA and so on and warned recipients that they had been recorded visiting illegal web sites? Of course you do. Now, in a bizarre twist, one German recipient of a Sober worm got this ... 2005-12-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K9GYG I have written many times before about the use of Microsoft .PPS files (self running Powerpoint slideshows [1]) to send chain email, porno, hoaxes and so on. Now, coming to a corporate messaging system near you this Christmas, PPS madness grows new legs ... 2005-12-20 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K8KUM At the Beeb - End nears for Mac version of IE. Both of the users have already been ... 2005-12-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K8CKS Walking the dog in the park this evening, I found myself unprepared for an altogether predictable predicament. As is not unusual during our strolls together, the dog took the opportunity to answer the call of nature. Being a responsible dog owner, I had ... 2005-12-19 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K5F64 ******** McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange ********** ********************************************************************** Alert generated on: Friday, December 16, 2005 11:13:21 GMT Standard Time The file downloadm.zip has been ... 2005-12-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K5EWN This works surprisingly well on my BB. I have used Gmail on the BB successfully for a while now, but the interface was always cluttered and slow and warned that I should use a supported browser for best results. Now Gmail recognises the BB browser and ... 2005-12-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-66EL4X Went along to the Beating Crime in YOUR Business is YOUR Business event today as planned and gave my speech. First the bad part. I managed to fall off the stage. In fairness to me, the stage was a somewhat Heath Robinson affair with a screen positioned ... 2005-12-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6G3KAS As a regular respondent in silicon.com's CIO jury, I saw an opportunity to get the message about the unfettered abuse of ISP and NSP resources out to a wider audience yesterday and I took it. The question was: Are ISPs failing to take enough responsibility ... 2005-12-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K4G4M Got this yesterday evening from IBM. IBM UDDI Business Registry Shutdown Notice You are receiving this notice because you registered at one of the IBM UDDI sites. The IBM UDDI Business Registry, the IBM UDDI Test Registry and the IBM UDDI Beta Test ... 2005-12-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K3KFJ Remember that Sony DRM "rootkit"? It first made the news on Oct 31, only just a week before Microsoft's usual patch day (second Tuesday of the month) and probably too late for any planned Microsoft patch activity in November. Well, here we are a ... 2005-12-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K3JM7 Rule 1. Don't build your data centre next door to any structure which may explode ... 2005-12-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K3GXW Try this. From an IP outside your local network, telnet into port 25 of the Domino server which acts as your inbound SMTP gateway. What do you see? Something like this? 220 fully.qualified.host.name ESMTP Service (Lotus Domino Release 6.5.4) ready at Wed, ... 2005-12-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K2GWS ... 2005-12-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6K2D84 Why would spams which are identical save for these subject lines make anyone seriously consider buying "OEM Software" * from their senders? Subject: Please fill the form below Subject: My Friend, You are in Trouble Subject: Thanks for being a ... 2005-12-13 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JZDDR Declan writes to me to point out this piece at El Reg: Server bug cripples Dublin law firms Badly configured MS Small Business Server Solicitors across Dublin fell victim to an accidental mass mailing that crippled their systems this week, clogging ... 2005-12-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JZMBB Hidden away in a silicon.com article entitled "Technology our only hope of cutting spam" we find an interesting quote from 2003 by Enrique Salem, then CEO at Brightmail, which would not look out of place alongside Bill's famous "640k ought to ... 2005-12-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JZHCJ First round of questions arising from the ... 2005-12-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JZD9K What I learned - it's difficult to condense years of experience into one short conversation. If I have said anything that you disagree with, or maybe just don't understand then please do tell me but take comfort in the knowledge that the fault is probably in ... 2005-12-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JVHQ6 As Bruce has pointed out, I will be taking part in a podcast session for Taking Notes shortly. If you have any questions, you can submit them here. Please just take this as formal notice that any question which is framed too broadly for a concise answer ... 2005-12-12 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JWF9D New feature in Gmail - Web Clips. These are just RSS feeds displayed one item at a time above whichever folder you happen to be looking at. The selection of an RSS item to display appears to be context sensitive. Or someone at Google has a sense of ... 2005-12-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JVLX4 Phone ... 2005-12-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JVLK5 Richard Johnson, a contractor at the Zambian Ministry of Mining and Resources and apparently suffering from a terminal illness, has written to our spamtrap with a request for help in putting his affairs in order. In return for this assistance, the said ... 2005-12-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JUF98 Here's an interesting Google referrer from earlier on today. administrative burden or the ongoing costs of continuing to run Lotus Notes while the rest of the organization is running Exchange Do you suppose the googler is for or against ... 2005-12-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JUCKE Digging around in Technorati for posts about Gmail antivirus, via a post at GeekExtreme, I came across this piece which attempts to identify whose AV technology is being used at Gmail. The results, based on a sample of 15 unidentified pieces of malware, ... 2005-12-07 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JTKCG Reported yet another Hotmail 419 spam earlier on. Got an automatic response a short while later which includes this slightly flawed piece of advice: In addition to the actions we're going to take, if the message is not from a Hotmail customer you should ... 2005-12-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JTJ7T Mmmm... SPAMTM... Via J-Walk. (SPAM is a registered trademark of Hormel and nothing to do with unsolicited bulk ... 2005-12-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JTHV5 No? Me neither. Why? Because until recently they simply didn't accept any executable attachments. According to El Reg, that is all about to change. Google has introduced an anti-virus scanning service to Gmail. Each time users send and receive ... 2005-12-06 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JSLQD A new header: X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus It is debatable just how clean any phish email is, though the advice to use AV is harmless enough. Not that any victim of this little prank is ever likely to see that ... 2005-12-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JSG6B Yes, it's that time of year when people start sending out their annual email to everyone they know. This has caused us problems in the past and seems set to do so again. Some time earlier today, a sender in Germany sent a seasonal message to a list of 47 ... 2005-12-05 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JPGGM Here's a Sobering picture... In November 2005 80% of inbound SMTP here was garbage (i.e. 20% was good). This is the worst figure here since May this year and the second worst ever. One factor stands out - that huge rise in "Rejected Other ... 2005-12-02 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JNFPY I can't say it without smiling but here, courtesy of El Reg, is oxymoron of the week - Microsoft Antivirus. I thought about signing up for that public beta, but didn't like the look of the fine print on the signup page. Waitaminnit. Where's that ... 2005-12-01 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JLHYM Regular readers may recall that assertion, documented here some while ago. Maybe AOL doesn't send any spam any more but this is just as bad. Yes, it's a Sober.AG backscatter bounce from our friends at ... 2005-11-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JMK39 Try this one, Volker. I bought one of these Belkin 802.11g USB adapters to use on the family PC at home. Reason - it can easily be removed and locked away, so I can ration Internet access for the kids (over protective parent?). Cost about 20 quid and ... 2005-11-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JGHAC For the purposes of illustration, I will use Trend Micro ScanMail for Domino version 3 here, but other scanners should be configured in similar ways.What does your virus scanner do when it encounters a known virus? What about an unkown virus? That second one ... 2005-11-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JMG9E Ben reminded me of this yesterday. A number of my sites including this one, all of which use the BlogSphere template (though that may not be significant), are regularly being hit with HTTP GET requests for the same non-existent document: GET ... 2005-11-30 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6BSFNX Richard Schwartz has been leaving little hints all over the web that he may have more than a passing interest in a certain movie being released this week. It was after reading one such hint over at vowe dot net the other evening that I started to do a bit ... 2005-11-28 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JDCGZ In the Microsoft advisory on the latest zero day exploit against IE, MS complains: Microsoft is concerned that this new report of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer was not disclosed responsibly, potentially putting computer users at risk. We continue to ... 2005-11-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JECQN This is ... 2005-11-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JEDD5 More enlargement patch spam. This one exposes a feature of the Notes ... 2005-11-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JEC2U Few if any people will see your site survey popup. We all use popup blockers now. You might want to think about better ways of asking for our ... 2005-11-23 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JCJFU This should be music to Richard Schwartz's ears. At El Reg - Gaffer tape defeats Sony DRM rootkit. ... analyst house Gartner has discovered that the [Sony rootkit DRM] technology can be easily defeated simply by applying a fingernail-sized piece of ... 2005-11-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6JCHT9 This spammer has moved from snake oil pharmaceuticals to intellectual property theft and all with the same subject line - "Make her worship you" - only the spam body is ... 2005-11-21 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J9L7G I've been wondering why I see so few referrers from Technorati just recently. I have found no reliable way of persuading Technorati to spit out a list of articles from a specific blog, to verify that my content is all there (yes, I do ping them). So I tried a ... 2005-11-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-5XLCVV I've already said all I have to say about end user sites that deliberately configure their antivirus software to send warnings to innocent, spoofed senders. But I have time for just one more apoplectic rant. Virus quarantine log here is now filling with ... 2005-11-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J9CUP OK, so there's this Wired article, already mentioned by John Walkenbach, Richard Schwartz and doubtless many others, which concludes: What happens when the creators of malware collude with the very companies we hire to protect us from that malware? We ... 2005-11-18 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J8N2W Do you think a new "Most Wanted" web site which has been well publicised in main stream media might attract more than a handful of visitors on its first day? I do. Who wouldn't want to check out mug shots of notorious criminals, particularly the ... 2005-11-17 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J7CV3 I normally delete spam comments without looking at them but this caught my eye. The posting IP address is in Chinanet jiangsu province network. The spammed links all point to web sites at a French NSP. Those sites are all in simplified Chinese character ... 2005-11-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J6MXJ The Sony rootkit saga rumbles on, seemingly without end. I haven't commented on it much, but this latest development had me in stitches: "When you first fill out Sony’s form to request a copy of the uninstaller, the request form downloads and installs ... 2005-11-16 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J6GUX I have given over a lot of space to the issue of MSN/Hotmail and Personal Address abuse. However there is another service which is at least as widely abused and has been for much longer. That service is Yahoo! Geocities, formerly just plain Geocities, a free ... 2005-11-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J6GKJ Thomas Duff points out a sneaky social engineering trick that could be used to: take over a Gmail account, obtain lists of addresses to be used as spam targets and spam those addresses, possibly using the self same Gmail account Given my earlier post ... 2005-11-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J6HA4 I hate it when I'm ... 2005-11-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6GUBME Hot on the heels of that story at The Register subtitled "All quiet on the virus front", which I wrote about yesterday, The Register now brings you this. Backdoor Trojan targets Microsoft Access Zero day vuln gives hackers open access Virus ... 2005-11-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6GTLKP Certainly, The Register thinks it is. September marked a quiet month on the malware front with virus levels at a yearly low and the long-running NetSky-P worm stuck at the top of virus nuisance charts. I think ... 2005-11-15 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J5H68 Remember that malware which was circulating last week and attempting to conceal itself using Sony DRM and which came in a spoofed email purportedly from www.TotalBusiness.co.uk? These people really exist and are not in the business of installing ... 2005-11-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J5GWN At Silicon.com/ZDNet UK - Don't upgrade to Vista until 2008, says Gartner. Tempting though it is to gloat over items like this, there are some elements of the report which seem to me not to make much sense (though they are second hand - I have not seen the ... 2005-11-14 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-5S4J5V QV this blog and miscellaneous prior entries linked to it. I have had a number of requests for this and will publish it here for a while, to gauge response. The list contains single IP addresses, ranges of IP addresses (translated from CIDR notation into a ... 2005-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6J2D6S At F-Secure - One more Bot trying to hide under Sony DRM See also: New malware du jour That Sony Rootkit and ... 2005-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6DLM79 Update 11 Nov 2005: A worm very similar to the one described below is currently circulating. This looks to be a new variant of the Breplibot (Brepibot?) worm. This variant, like the previous one seen yesterday, attempts to hide itself using the DRM ... 2005-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6GVBLG I seem to be getting a fair number of hits on this page (about Spamcop listing a Gmail IP - note 1) at the moment - possibly something to do with this. It seems that at least Spamcop and possibly other DNSBLs fed by spamtraps are continuing to list IPs ... 2005-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-69UHBE Something I hoped never to see: Spam has been disguised to hide the true sender and nature of the content but I will say this: Spam uses UTF-8 and quoted printable encoding and mixes english and russian content. Spam was not sent via the Gmail web ... 2005-11-11 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HZFQL ... but not necessarily with all the right people. OK, vowe has already mentioned this satirical piece at El Reg, but I can't resist quoting just one part of that "memo" from BillG (links added by me): In 1995 I warned that we risked losing ... 2005-11-10 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HYM6F This bugtraq report is interesting. The originator is concerned that he has found "a backdoor account that is hidden from the user and compromises the security of all Sony Vaio laptops". The backdoor in question is the Administrator account which ... 2005-11-09 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HXN2X According to the Icon Interactive Link Popularity Tool, this site comfortably exceeds the score needed to be "popular", but fails to achieve iconic status. Score was 50,140 a moment or two ago (and what is it with that HotBot score?). Via ... 2005-11-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HXGC5 A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He called down to her "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am? I promised to meet a friend but I am late and have lost my bearings" The woman ... 2005-11-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HXBW2 This article at today's Handler's Diary at the SANS ISC includes a sobering thought: The Internet is the perfect playground for organized criminal activity.  Near-total anonymity, multiple ways to launder money, enormous amounts of value and wealth, ... 2005-11-08 Christopher W Linfoot Article http://chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/d6plinks/CWLT-6HTFJP Following on from my discovery the other day of Google Sitemaps, I have gone a couple of steps further to implement in Blogsphere: Multiple Google Sitemaps and a sitemap index and ROR I think I have it right. Doubtless someone will point out any errors ... 2005-11-04 Christopher W Linfoot