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Rant: Why your email is not high priority after all
Once upon a time, someone with a sociopathic tendency invented an email header field called X-Priority, a derivative of the widely ignored Importance: header. Ranging from 1 to 5 it is meant to convey the priority of the email, with 1 being the highest priority, and 5 being the least. A priority of 3 (or… — read more
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Direct UK is dead, long live Direct UK?
Nominet‘s ill-thought out proposals for .uk (since apparently expunged from their web site) appear to have been scrapped. The highlights: Following our Board meeting yesterday, we are not proceeding with our original proposal on ‘direct.uk’ … It was clear from the feedback that there was not a consensus of support for the direct.uk proposals as… — read more
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Direct registrations in .uk (again)
A couple of days ago I wrote about Nominet’s plans to allow registrations in .uk. Apparently it’s not just me that thinks the ideas are misguided. Every person I’ve spoken to who has any significant dealings with Nominet doesn’t think much of them. Even the UK chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC), hardly known for… — read more
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Nominet “Direct UK” consultation
Nominet announced a little while ago a consultation on allowing domains to be registered directly within .uk rather than in .co.uk. So, for instance, you can register example.uk rather than example.co.uk. In itself this is an interesting proposal worthy of consideration; I think the arguments for and against are pretty balanced. But Nominet has mixed it up… — read more
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Poor science journalism ‘too often ignored’
I plan to make this the first of an occasional (for which read ‘when I can be bothered’) series on poor science journalism. Let’s look at this slow-news-day article from the BBC News website, entitled “Alcohol calories ‘too often ignored’”. All quotes are from that article. I’m going to presume there was some scientific research behind… — read more
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Making Apple Mail handle subscriptions
People wanting Apple Mail to support subscriptions might like to look at: https://github.com/abligh/imapmboxfilter (warning: beta quality). In a future version, I hope to make the ‘omit’ list optionally and automatically contain to a list of folders not subscribed to (i.e. you can use it to automatically track subscriptions rather than do it manually). — read more
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Apache websockets and tcp / vnc proxy
I’ve put my current work on the Apache vnc/tcp proxy (explanation here) on github, as people were (quite rightly) complaining a tarball was not particularly helpful. I’ve also added initial support for the guacamole protocol, though this is in need of optimisation. What’s on github is actually a clone of self.disconnect’s repo of apache-websocket, with… — read more
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Adding an emacs C style for Apache httpd
This blog post tells you how to add an emacs style for programming apache httpd and its modules. This is one of those things that is difficult to google for, as you’ll end up finding emacs modes for editing httpd.conf, or various Java-based apache projects. Nice and simple. Add this to your ~/.emacs file: (c-add-style “apache”… — read more
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Why BT TotalCare still sucks
A while ago, following a line fault I wrote about why BT TotalCare is a total waste of money. I’m sad to say, following a line fault, the situation has not improved. This time, they fixed the fault in what I suppose is a reasonable period of time – that, you would have thought, was… — read more
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Chained to a Megalith
Here is a really interesting article from GigaOM. I’m going to quote two paragraphs: I was a loyal (and repeat) Dell customer. Like clockwork, I would buy a new Dell desktop or laptop, mostly to keep up with Microsoft’s Windows OS. And I never really had a problem with Dell machines — they were solid… — read more