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 !

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 !

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.

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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!

Surprise surprise…people in the UK still aren’t getting what they thought they would when ordering Broadband. I do sympathise with the ISP’s to some degree here…they’re selling a 2nd rate product over a third-world POTS copper network which in much of the UK predates WWII.
Technology being used in the BT backhaul is ‘just’ keeping Broadband speeds ahead of what people expect nowadays but with news that the internet2 backbone has gone live in the US (University & student faculties only !) at speeds of up to 100Gbps (yes that’s right a 1000 times faster than your normal 100Mbps office network !) and fibre networking delivered to the home the far east for less than we pay per month for ‘Max’ ADSL (there’s a misnomer if ever I heard one !) It’s hardly really surprising that the ‘big six’ are getting their bum’s felt from Ofcom.
Just you don’t expect anything concrete or earth-shattering to arise from this meeting of minds !

The main problem is the marketing guff that the ISP’s get away with selling their products with…”up to 8Mbps” to your average Joe in the street..’Oh well if I get the right kit and turn up the volume then I should get the full speed’ When you then get into the conversation with them trying to explain line length, signal attentuation, copper twisted pair being repaired with Aluminium, lack of capacity in the exchange,  rate-adaptive products, 10 day training periods etc etc they just give up and burble ! Hardly surprising really is it…but then if you were > 4km from the exchange would you be rushing off to Talk Talk to get their great 2Mb service when your mate living 2 street from the exchange gets full speed !?

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Net firms quizzed on speed limits Bosses at six of the UK’s top net providers are being asked to explain why consumers do not get the broadband speeds firms advertise. The six executives are being questioned by Ofcom’s Consumer Panel which acts as the regulator’s customer champion. The panel wants consumers to get more information so they are not misled about the speed they sign up for. The panel also has proposals on what net firms should do to improve how they sell and advertise broadband.

Love this bit of tech…and I’m sure it will sell if only on the design values :0) I don’t think it’s a viable BlooToof product though…pairing is just a pest and then there’s the issue of powering this device with all those leds…USB2.0 has got to be a better option surely ?

clipped from www.cagninadesign.com Designed to mimic the look of a trash can, TEMPO is a unique hard drive storage device. Intended to protect the user from accidentally deleting files, it can also be used as an external storage device. As you delete files, they are automatically copied to the *TEMPO. As it fills up, led’s light the “can” from the bottom up, informing you of how much space is available. *Tempo is just a concept. It hasn’t been technologically designed.

I applaud the ethos but don’t like the big-business involvement. Smack too much of marketing spotting and attempting to monetize an untapped market. Not only that - what happens when the spotty oik from 3 doors down, piggy-backed on my wifi connection is on www.bigjugs.com pulling down all manner of trouser-tomfoolery ?

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk The BT Fon service lets people share a “small portion” of their home broadband connection by opening up a separate secure channel on their wireless router.