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This just in….Vista dialog causes widespread cerebral meltdown

Go figure :0)

Just been sent in a phishing attempt, quite nicely done. Well crafted and linked back to the actual lloyds bank site

Main aim is to get you to punch in your user name and password and memorable answers which it then submits to a couple of email accounts. THESE EMAIL ACCOUNTS

mailto:lom.data@web2mail.com
mailto:lom.data@gmail.com

Please feel free to add these to the most useless and inappropriate mailing lists or offers sites you can think of. Ideally include them in any honeypot scripts you may have running on your site.

I thank you.

I’ll bet very few of you out there will have heard of ‘enum’ other than in coding terms as in ‘enumerating’ over a collection or array. Well I’m stating for the record now, in a very few short years it’ll be the glue that binds you to your ‘Uniform Resource Identifier’ or URI.

At the moment we all probably have a phone number, some of us will have a mobile and a very few of us might have a VoIP address for internet-routed calls to your VoIP (typically Skype but other services are available) phone. The real problem is that there’s almost no way of making this information follow you around unless with every email signature or business card you have great big list of contact details !

Enter ‘ENUM’ (Depending where you look - Electronic NUmber Mapping System aka TElephone NUmber Mapping) . This works on almost the same principle as DNS does for web address on the internet.

The end result is that by entering a ‘NAPTR’ record into the DNS entries on your domain when someone calls on your main phone number, if it finds you unavailable it can do a lookup for your next preferred means of communications which might be your mobile, then that’s not available it follow you down to your VoIP number and finally if this still can’t get to you it’ll drop you an email with the voicemail of the call as an attachment…all transparently and without you having to look up/remember a series of numbers.

This is the future..and I like it !

When you’re unhappy about something why are you said to “disgruntled” ?

Shouldn’t you be “gruntled” instead ? In the same way you talk someone out of an idea, you “disabuse” them of the notion.

Hmmm..needs more thought that one I think !

So do you know why the financial markets are currently in turmoil ? Do you understand what a CDO is or how it’s been used in the traditional mortgage market ?

All people see on TV are the soundbite voxpops from the man in the street….”it’s gunna make it harder to pay off your credit cards (sic!) innit ?”

We hear things like ‘Credit crunch’ or ‘Credit squeeze’ but here’s a perfect depiction of how the traditional mortgage lender/borrower relationship was aggressively co-opted by the financial markets and leveraged for gain while the market was booming…of course now it’s gone flat and the financial markets inelastic ability to handle the contraction in the global liquidity pool is all too apparent.

As if further proof were needed…in the annals of history how many men and women have presented themselves half-cut to ‘get ink’ ? And how many go wrong wrong wrong !!!

This is a shame but one can’t help a degree of schadenfreude ! You really ought not to laugh…much ;0)

Oh lordy…two days in london. Got home last night and awoke this morning with a scratchy throat, enlarged glands (ooer !) and feeling distinctly shivery. Not good…and of course if it’s a bug I’ve no intention of going home and passing it on to the family.

bugger bugger bugger bugger

Brief morning browse of my faves from my hotel room in London brought me to elReg and this little beauty.

“With a total of 72 processors, 48 GB memory, and 3 PCIexpress ports, the Catapult draws less than 200 watts of power and fits in standard PC chassis.”

Blinkin’ flip ! All this for $15k and an opteron core in there for your desktop OS of choice for cluster control and workload management. Bugger me I though the nVidia graphics card processing clusters were good but this takes their pants down and gives them a good skelp on the bum to boot !