Boardmad

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 !

Much of my day-to-day involves putting together solutions that do a bit of data extraction, transformation and loading somewhere else (That’s the ETL bit). So that’s the transactional bit, at then end of the production line, once we’ve speont all this time, money and effort loading and validating this info you then need to quantify and carry out analysis on the metrics derived from this data…this is the OLAP.

With the imminent release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 comes MDX or Multi Dimensional eXpressions. This article on ElReg does a better job of explaining than I ever would but I’m actually quite keen to get a better understanding of the ‘closing the loop’ power of the expressions language as increasingly our systems become ‘touchless’ and business processes need to be able to be run with minimal/zero intervention this sort of business intelligence becomes invaluable.

This post from well known and respected UK ISP Zen has to set alarm bells ringing ! Hot on the heels of the news that the UK’s BT Home Hub is borked comes the news that the chipset used globally by a third of all ADSL router integrators ’causes intermittancy’

Yikes…this could run and run !
As I suspected the comments that have arisen after this info appeared on the net point to confusion, misunderstanding and and an utter lack of faith in the BB market in the UK.

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I’ve long been a DRM hater - I don’t own an iPod because I want to listen to my music in the format I choose, not what apple wants me to. The media furore over this American woman’s pitiful defense about the use of Kazaa is becoming a feeding-frenzy and I don’t imagine it’ll be too long before we see her doing heavy rotation on the daytime chat shows. However out of all this hoohaa, and alongside the Radiohead album release for free, a simple message from a chap trying to make the music industry realise it’s being overtaken and will rapidly become redundant. I like this message and for one will be looking for his books.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2

I love the idea for this - a mobo specific hardware embedded Virtual machine that boots first on startup giving you hardware access to your internet connection without the drag of having to wait for WIndoze to shake itself and roll out of bed. ! Love it…just hope it’s something they can extract out of proprietary mobo configs and let us mere mortals install for ourselves

clipped from www.splashtop.com On or Off, with nothing in between. Remember when booting a computer gave you enough time to make a cup of coffee? Not anymore… With Splashtop you can read e-mail, chat with friends, or surf the Web seconds after pushing the power button!

• Puff the magic dragon with Pinky and perky on b-side singing The Bicycle Song

First album bought:

• Raiders of the Pop Charts (double album) bought with Boots Xmas vouchers accompanied by my Mum…

ergo I am not cool and is it any wonder I am as I am now ?!?!?!? Oh crap I just remembered another childhood flashback…driving North to Aberdeen to visit family in my old Granny’s mustard yellow Austin (?) Allegro listening to Jimmy fuckin’ Shand (yes that IS his middle name in Scotland - it’s official) and the Alexander Brothers on 8 track…I ask you ?

And in closing I passed grading this afternoon at Karate am now fully fledged 1st Kyu (starts at 9th kyu and works down until 1st Dan Black belt then goes back up - go figure !)…happily now with an 18 month break before getting to grade to Black Belt…I need the practice !?!??

l8rs