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Submission + - How to get Gmail to unblock an IPv6 netblock

Submitted by

theonlyholle

on Friday November 30, 2012 @05:00AM

theonlyholle writes: "For the last couple of weeks I've been trying to somehow get Google to unblock an IPv6 block on their Gmail platform. The problem is that seemingly only one or two spam emails from an IPv6 address seem to trigger their automatic filter and cause it to reject further emails from the entire /64 block to be rejected due to an "unusual" amount of UCE. Of course it's not all that unusual, since I have a few customers who forward their incoming email to Gmail and occasionally a spam email slips through my spam filters. What's really annoying is that a) the filter is on such a hair trigger (I have no such problems on IPv4) and b) there seems to be no way of getting Google to adjust their filters. Has anyone been successful in getting through to Google and having an IPv6 block permanently unblocked?"

Submission + - SpaceX ISS Launch on Hold (discovery.com)

Submitted by JCallery on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @11:08AM

JCallery writes: Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has put an attempt at combining their final two test flights to the International Space Station (ISS) on hold due to technical problems.

Submission + - Creators of the Koobface malware named (sophos.com)

Submitted by

theonlyholle

on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @11:33AM

theonlyholle writes: "Naked Security, the Sophos IT security blog, has published an article about the authors of the Koobface malware that plagued Facebook users in 2008 and the investigation that led to their identification. Apparently the botnet was created by five Russians from St. Petersburg."

Submission + - Flash exploit lets websites activate your webcam (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @10:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: A new Adobe Flash exploit has been discovered that allows any website you visit to activate your webcam and microphone giving whoever owns the website the opportunty to watch and record you sat at your machine. The exploit involves the use of a hidden iFrame and the Flash Player Settings Manager. With just four clicks of the mouse the camera can be activated silently and the user has no idea. The example given is a simple game that pops-up the webcam output once you've done the appropriate number of clicks.

Adobe has been told about the problem several weeks ago, but has yet to respond. So the exploit has been made public to try and speed things along.

Comment Re:social shopping yes - social network no (Score 1) 271

by theonlyholle on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:58AM (#33450628) Attached to: Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?

have you ever been on YouTube?

Comment Re:Last.fm anyone? (Score 2, Insightful) 271

by theonlyholle on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:56AM (#33450568) Attached to: Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?

for the same reason that people use Internet Explorer - because it comes bundled and you don't have to deal with downloading extra software, setting up an account etc. Not because it's better, more secure or offers anything new - ease of use seems to be a lot more important than all of that.

Comment Re:social shopping yes - social network no (Score 1) 271

by theonlyholle on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:52AM (#33450480) Attached to: Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?

who says that the artist or record company didn't put the live video up himself? Legally? And if my friends saw the video, maybe they would notice they like the music and *would* by the track...

Comment social shopping yes - social network no (Score 4, Insightful) 271

by theonlyholle on Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:45AM (#33450316) Attached to: Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?

The problem is that all it is is a social shopping network. And of course it's a "social shopping at the iTunes store" network, so it's very, very limited. I personally think that Apple narrowed the scope of their network too much (you can't even post a link to a live video on YouTube of a song you just bought - or rather, you can but it will show up as text only with no way to click or copy&paste it) and most users will be bored by it very quickly and just ignore it. Even if Apple expands it later, a reputation once ruined is hard to improve...

Submission + - Checking email for TLS support now easy (ismymailsecure.com)

Submitted by theonlyholle on Thursday August 19, 2010 @05:55AM

theonlyholle writes: Finding out if a certain email address is able to receive email securely with TLS based encryption has always been a bit of a hassle, as you had to check every single MX manually. So I wrote a little web tool for myself and some colleagues, which is now open to the general public. Just enter an email address (the left part really doesn't matter, it's just so it's more end-user friendly) and the tool will tell you which MXs accept email for the domain and if they support TLS. Of course you still need to be sure that you support it on your end as well... try it at http://www.ismymailsecure.com/

Comment man page != end user documentation (Score 1) 769

by theonlyholle on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:33AM (#30310648) Attached to: Is Linux Documentation Lacking?

The question in the summary shows the extent of the problem. No, a man page is not proper end-user documentation. It's great for a trained IT professional who quickly needs to look up the syntax for a command. But for my mom or my wife's dad, even getting to the man page is a challenge - and to get there, they need to know that man pages exist. Are there even man page viewers for the desktop? Ones that are readily accessible and preinstalled with the default system? But I must come to Linux's defense, too. The documentation on my latest Windows system is not much better, except that a help system is built right into the desktop. It's the availability of third party printed documentation that makes the difference.

Submission + - How to sell to a pirate (po-ru.com)

Submitted by

theonlyholle

on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @05:01AM

theonlyholle writes: "Paul Battley has an excellent blog post on "how to sell to a pirate" that shows how artificial restrictions on media distribution kept him from paying for the content he wanted to see: "At any stage up until the last, you could have had me as a customer, if you were willing to supply it there and then in a format I could use. However, because of licensing, region coding, and DRM, my best option was the 'pirate' one.""

Red Hat CEO Says Economic Crisis Favors Open Source 191

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @08:23AM from the falling-tide-lifts-some-boats dept.

arashtamere writes "Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst predicts the enterprise open source software business will emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market. 'I've had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said, "We're a Microsoft shop and we don't use any open source whatsoever, but we're already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and we need you to help put together a plan for us to... use open source to reduce our costs." And we've had other customers literally looking at ripping and replacing WebLogic or WebSphere for JBoss ... I think we'll know in about six to nine months but there is no question that open source will come out of this in relatively better shape than our proprietary competitors,' he told Computerworld."

Comment why would she work for IBM... she works for me :) (Score 5, Interesting) 340

by theonlyholle on Thursday April 05, 2007 @09:28AM (#18619437) Attached to: SCO Legally Assaults PJ of Groklaw

At least I've paid her a couple of times and I suspect others have done the same. There are some very convenient donation links on Groklaw and for every donation I have sent so far I have received a friendly "thankyou" email. But even if she *did* work for IBM, that wouldn't change the facts of the case and I would still enjoy reading the legal analysis, which is pretty sound once you take out the sometimes over the top OSS "fangirlism" that I occasionally find a bit annyoing.

Submission + - Surface Wave Touch Technology might be next

Submitted by

ranga_the_don

on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @03:56AM

ranga_the_don writes: "
Hugo Ortega of UberTablet provides us with an in-depth look at "Surface Wave Technology", a touchscreen that "registers coordinates by interacting with a sound wave that crosses the screen." Video after the jump. Quite literally X and Y coordinates (cursor movements) are recorded by someone breaking this Sound Wave by placing their finger on the screen

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Submission + - The future of Creative and the sound card market

Submitted by

Hanners

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @06:15AM

Hanners writes: "Elite Bastards investigates the future of Creative Labs, and in particular their PC sound card business, which is facing a number of big challenges during 2007. Windows Vista has seen some large changes to the driver model required by audio devices, the abilities of on-board solutions have improved somewhat, and the amount of competition in the market place has ballooned. So what does all of this mean for the traditional leader of this market? As well as outlining all of these issues, they speculate as to what measures Creative may need to take to thrive once more in this changing market."

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