Roundcube (http://roundcube.net/) seems to work pretty well. And it has some nice add-ins for changing passwords & Fail2Ban.

That's the best you got? *pinches cheeks* You're so cute.

-J

Aah yeah. That was an awesome bug, totally "The Daily WTF" worthy.

One of the QA interns on the Dev side got tired of entering a password as he was testing and changed the code so any password would pass the check. He of course forgot to undo his change. I personally managed that incident since all the other adult supervision on both the Dev and Ops side was at an offsite. It was one of the most fun days in my time at Hotmail.

I thought it was lame of his manager (DB) to not renew his internship. Smart kid, rookie mistake. Wonder where he's at now.

I left in 2000 so missed the 2001 incident. (There was also an incident in '97 where a friendly hacker figured out how to see any file in the filesystem. The site was still Perl based at the time. My boss wanted to call the FBI, I convinced him to let me send him a computer as a "Thank you for telling us" present instead.)

Meanwhile, seeing you flail about as you're trying to prove God knows what is kinda cute. Hopefully everyone else is enjoying me share some of those memories.

-J

Dude, give me at least a link to the "deception" you think happened. Your paranoia and conspiracy mindedness is just plain silly.

-J

Hotmail absolutely -NEVER- ran Linux. We gave it a test at the end of '96 but it didn't do SMP as well as FreeBSD did and we never really tried again.

-J

Hotmail was FreeBSD on the user facing services and Solaris for data storage.

We never tried NT4. We did eventually move to W2K (which was part of why I left).

-J

Um, no. Hotmail to Hotmail email was directly delivered. It never touched a SMTP server. The process was to query the user database server, check the recipient's mailbox size, and then deliver directly to their mailbox.

I still have some of the original Perl source code on tape.

-J

Okay, that's funny! And a worthy post to respond to to remove an inadvertent mod.

Apple has always been a bully. From "Look and Feel" lawsuits, to creating then killing clone machines, and now patent trolling...

Wow. Hell of a post, thanks! This is the sort of discussion I want to see.

-J

Sad.

-J

Yup, competition never works to the advantage of the consumer. That's why I'm typing this on a $500 computer that is 50 times faster than the one I had 10 years ago. That's why my car is more comfortable, gets better gas mileage, and has more power than the one I bought 6 years ago. And yes, that's why (even in a barely competitive market) I have a faster 25Mbps net connection for less than I paid for my 128Kbps ISDN connection 15 years ago.

You're right, all the above suck.

-Josh

The seven deadly sins...

Nothing beats giving the sales guy a computer named "greed"

-J

My bread machine is a $12 Thrift Store special. It's been working great for us for the better part of a decade; the last 5 years making loaves about every other day.

-J

I buy the yeast in bulk from Costco.

Here's my favorite bread recipe- add in this order:

For a 2lb loaf:
    2 tablespoons white or brown sugar or honey
    1 teaspoon salt
    2 tablespoons canola or olive oil
    12oz water

    3 cups white flour (Costo 25lb bag - $8)
    1 cup wheat flour (Walmart 'Hungarian' whole wheat flour 5lb bag - $3)
    1 teaspoon dry yeast (Costco 2lb bag - $6? - around 300 loaves worth) - Don't use the packets.

I have a thrift store breadmaker. Just before the last rise cycle someone pulls the paddle at the bottom of the pan to not have a big hole at the bottom of the loaf.

It really does work out to between $0.25 and $0.50 per loaf. And that includes the amortized price of the bread machine. I make at least 4 loaves a week and we've been doing this for at least the last 5 years.

-J