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until someone claims the old name as a new org/repo

Most mobile ISPs in the UK use Procera Networks (now Sandvine) products that do basic deep packet inspection to filter traffic. You can allocate users to pools and provide contecti…

Wrong link, should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/day-trade... instead of https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=0ba7046d-cfde...

Not an expert at all, but my basic understanding of GDPR is if you outsource a service to a 3rd party and they collect data or do any processing that they shouldn't, you are essent…

Yes, the Brit plugs are great until you step on them in the night Funny comparison of different plugs from a few years ago https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/plug-versus-plug/

The response to GDPR is interesting. If they are handling and selling your data in ways that are not compatible with GDPR, then you should seriously consider using someone else for…

The Three changes came in response to this change in regulations. As a relatively new operator they have always hated roaming, as it has made them less then the established operato…

There is a current growth due to fintech startups like monzo, who are using prepaid cards to test the market

HSBC UK silently truncates passwords to 8 characters :-( https://twitter.com/HSBC_UK_Help/status/579661876017139713

Never used an OCR library before so gave it a challenge with the latest xkcd cartoon. curl https://ocr.a9t9.com/api/Parse/Image --data "apikey=helloworld&url= http://imgs.xkcd.com/…

I've used Virtualmin and Horde for my personal email service. Virtualmin does a very good job configuring Dovecot, Spamassassin, Postfix, DNS, Apache/Nginx, etc and Horde is a very…

The script appears to be be at least part minerd, a program for bitcoin/litcoin mining. Details of minerd at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0

This is a un-true myth according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Sacrobosco.27s...

use Virtualmin ( http://www.virtualmin.com/ ), it will configure postfix/smtp, dovecot/imap, dns & web hosting. Its abit like cPanel & Plesk, but you don't need to use the control …

have you used them? looks suspect.

i highly recommend gandi to everyone. Very good service, probably the best Europe based registration companies around.

I would definitely recommend using Virtualmin, its a hosting control panel that can control mail/websites/dns in one via a simple control panel. All works like Plesk, but without b…

I use a catchall and give different email addresses to everyone. I've received 3 spam emails in the past month to my dropbox account, but they aren't the only ones with problems, f…