dramaticus3

What's wrong with the console ?

OMG computers

You dawg!, I hear you like type systems ...

vultures

then Larry Page what ?

That's dynamically loaded, try it with the runtime

    $ gcc hello.c
    $ ls -l a.out
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 4511 Oct 11 16:38 a.out
    $ gcc --static hello.c
    $ ls -l a.out
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 maht maht 574106 Oct 11 16:38 a.out

because GNU is Not Unix

Turn on locale UTF-8 for GNU software before benchmarking it to compare with Plan9 software.

GNU stuff gets a speed improvement from assuming single byte characters.

It used to be the case that licenses required you to submit your modifications back to the source. Lucent's first stab at opening Plan 9 From Bell Labs back in '99 had such a clause.

> Fortunately, thanks to the GPLv2, all the significant changes come back to the mainstream kernel.

How exactly, does that work ?

It's like Slashdot on April Fool's

Check your assumptions. The field could be updated at any time to any value by another connection.

And who's to say we started at zero.

You didn't check for overflow.

tac filename.txt | sed 10q | tac

Fortunately not.

There's so much more to Acme than piping. Actions based on regex matching via the plumber for a start. Menus you can type / keep in a text file anywhere you like. No stupid colour syntax highlighting or pointless fancy shit.

1) install plan9port

2) use Acme

3) program !!!???

4) profit

GNU is Not Unix

So security minded they're using GPG, no wait ...

WineCoffer sounds like Wank Offer

Yes, that's the one. There are more than one available. I'm not going to spam the name of mine. It's a service I wanted myself as an early adopter of handheld computers, outgoing SMTP is one of those things where the ISP does everything it can to make you use user@mobileisp.com and even when it is plain, remembering the settings if your phone gets wiped, is it mail.example.isp.com or smtp.example.isp.com. Hopefully it is a bit easier to remember the smtp service one uses.

What am I saying: end to end encryption isn't there, just in-flight encryption. Encrypting the payload before it leaves your network is the only way to do that, not relying on intermediaries.

It's a shame we can't sign it for you as it leaves our network, but that would defeat the point.

Buy a Data sim, what to do as outgoing SMTP ?

Vodafone for instance : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vodafone+smtp

Our service, one of a few, offers SMTP Auth'd or just relying on MAIL FROM: envelope header for outgoing email, utilising TLS, especially useful when on free-wifi.

Set your SPF settings to allow our sending IP in order to improve one's SPAM score.

The TLS route means that if one is sending to a GMAIL account then it is the recipient who can break the chain of trust.

If you have an SMTP receiver you can send from an open wi-fi access point in Karachi and know that only in server was the plain text processed. I guess that's not saying much but you can easily set it up for yourself.

Email, still not dead.

My work has gradually moved from Web -> Email. I learned about email while working as a sys admin for a website sending 100k mailouts and now I've become a bit of a specialist writing email apps. Postfix is my weapon of choice, you can extend it externally via its unix pipe & socket routing.

Currently I'm building an outgoing SMTP service for people network hopping - Wifi, 3g etc.

It has been interesting to see the rise in inter-SMTP server communications going SSL. Google & Hotmail, for instance, both use TLS to send their email, even when there's no requirement to do so, TLS is chosen first.

So people often trumptet BBM as end-to-end secure but if you use Google Mail with your mobile email and set it to TLS only and only send to other Google & Hotmail users then the same is true.

I've also had a report of a German ISP that deep packets SMTP traffic and changes STARTTLS to XXX "for security reasons". I suspect that they have a tap in front of their closed source MTA to log the traffic to satisfy the European Data Retention Directive.

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

Kaiser, Krieg, Kanonen

Without questions, answering them is hard ?

ha, hoisted by usage

A ruler is someone who rules.

A rule is a device for measuring length.

Shame the project homepage introduces this error. Language barriers are cross domain, not just cross culture.

Try the project home page http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cwandt/pen-type-a-a-mini...

> [The iPad has] set off a revolution in progress about how entertainment and other media are consumed.

Is this really true ? I know I'm a bit provincial but I don't know anyone with an iPad and have only ever seen anyone with one TV. I'm not even sure my friend who works in the Apple store has one at home (he's never mentioned it and he's the kind who would).

EDIT I got my reply from asking him. It's revolutionised how entertainment and other media are consumed in his house.

me: how do you like it ?

he: Very much. Lou uses it all the time ... She hasn't used a pc since.