+1 for this suggestion. I have a T-Mobile Blackberry 9700, and the UMA calling is its killer app.

With UMA, the phone contacts T-Mobile over WiFi whenever that's available. That means that you can get T-Mobile service on your campus in exactly the way you would if you were talking to a T-Mobile tower: voice, SMS, Blackberry Email, Data Services, etc.

It's also amazing for roaming. Are you overseas? Connect to a WiFi network and all of the sudden you're in the U.S. as far as the phone company is concerned. I travel very frequently, and this feature plus a Boingo Mobile plan and Google Voice allow essentially limitless talk for +$8/mo on top of the ordinary phone bill.

For T-Mobile UMA, you do NOT have to buy HotSpot Calling as an option. (I don't think it's offered anymore anyway.) If you don't have the HotSpot option for $x/mo, you can still use UMA, but all minutes come out of your regular voice time (note free evenings/weekends still apply). If you have the extra option, then all minutes on WiFi are free.

For the record, I submitted the review without any sort of link to the publisher (per the Slashdot book review policy). The /. editors add in those links.

And no, I don't work for the publisher. I genuinely read the book and enjoyed it.

I work in an American university physics department. Your comment is right on the money here: we support both operating systems - Linux and OS X.

I can't think of anyone who uses Windows at all.

Absolutely!

BTW, you owe me $1.25 for reading this post.

Cooperation is the norm... in your own corp/alliance/guild. The games is basically divided into three large power-blocks with different ideals whose members work together for greater profit, defense, and stability. It's a minority who isn't involved in this in some way.

I'd give EasyDNS a high personal ranking. They're not cheap, but they do seem to know their stuff.

I have one too... It does 2 Tflops on the same amount of power. As long as all of the opcodes are "NOOP".

actually, i thin it would make more sense as such:

AO = NC-17 M = R T = PG-13 E = G

The problem is people like you equating M with PG-13, M IS R, but due to the assinine double standard that Games have been given by those who beleive that Gaming is JUST for kids, the rating system is assumed to have failed. Even is "hot Sex" was included in the final product, it is no worse(except in quality) than sex scenes in the vast majority of R rated movies.
and with that, I think it should be noted that the Movie Ratings are "Voluntary", as in, the Movie Publisher can rate their movie whatever they want to. The ESRB Rating is forced on any game intended for sale on any medium outside of the Internet, the Developer cannot issue its own rating for the game and it cannot sell the game in 95% of retail outlets without a sanctified rating.

A million e-mail accounts. That's a lot. You're facing the potential of hundreds of thousands of users hitting a POP3 server once a minute, without taking into account the webmail and any IMAP use (with its associated socket inefficiencies). This means you need a lot of equipment and hacking skills.

So, to handle the load you need a lot of servers. For a million accounts, you might be looking at twenty medium specced Linux boxes. So log into the company's GoDaddy account or whatever and set up twenty MX records for each of the different machines. Now you're ready to do the real work.

Set up a basic POP3 and MTA on each machine. Doesn't really matter which. Sendmail is fine, but make sure to order a book so you can correct any config mistakes over the coming weeks. You also want to install SpamAssassin. Avoid the latest version for certain reasons. SpamAssassin 3 will do. Get this all running on each machine. Assign usernames and passwords to all users and create all the accounts on every single machine (more on this later). Tell all users that any who have problems can get in touch with you, otherwise they might get upset. Try to send this e-mail before the MX records propogate otherwise they won't get it for a while.

As the multiple MX records mean mail will be going to a random server, it is essential every user be on every machine. So how will people get all their mail rather than a twentieth of it? Easy, you set up a round robin DNS on mail.DOMAIN.com. This way whenever a user checks their mail, they'll randomly end up on a different mail server, therefore collecting more of their mail.

IMAP gets trickier in this situation, but I came up with a solution. Since no-one uses IMAP, you can dedicate one box to it. Set up all the accounts there and write a Perl script which logs into all the other boxes on POP3 for every account, then puts the messages into the folders on the IMAP server. Get this script to run (with crontab) every minute.

Webmail will need a similar script, but I leave that as an exercise for you as I've given you enough strategy already.

Good luck!

Fuck.