I'm not sure if you'd be willing to divulge this information, but just out of pure curiosity I'd be interested in knowing what types of files people are backing up. For instance, across the whole service, what are the top 10 file types that are backed up?
"If anything will drive people to Linux, it will be this Registry-centric architecture of Windows."
Wait... what?
This whole article is laying things on a bit thick, but this quote is especially hard to swallow.
The two groups of people that primarily buy Windows are individual consumers, like my dad, and corporate IT decision makers, like my boss.
I can't imagine either man saying to me, "I'd love to stay with Windows but its damn Registry-centric architecture is something I just can't get past. It's sure making Linux look pretty attractive."
There are plenty of legit reasons for choosing or not choosing to use Windows. I have a hard time swallowing that its Registry-centric architecture is high on most people's lists.
But might your dad (or your boss) say that the upgrade to Windows 7 is so troublesome that they might just as well switch to Linux? I've been amazed at how easy a switch to Linux (by other family members) has been in some cases I have observed.
Allowing you to authenticate against another SMTP server always seemed like such an easy win for them and I couldn't understand why they didn't just do it. But I guess I'm not the one supporting millions of people on my platform. :)
This makes GMail an even stronger candidate now to replace a desktop mail client in my book. Thanks, Google.
It's useful because if you're using Gmail to manage email from your own domain(s), and have a non-Gmail primary email address, now people receiving your email won't have to know that you're using Gmail. Often I would get people start using my Gmail account even though I was sending mail from my own domain's email address.
It would be time consuming especially if you have a lot of email, but it is possible. Set up your current account in an IMAP client like Thunderbird, download all the messages to local folders, set up the Apps account, move messages into that account.
I did that, and abandoned it in favor of regular gmail. Gmail for domains did not have (at that time - I don't know the sitation now) all the features of regular gmail and it had a fixed space quota.
Right. The first time I noticed the issue, I sent email to my landlord at the time (who was an older guy, a police officer and not all that technically-inclined). He saw my gmail username and somehow thought it was my last name. I thought I was sending him an email from "<firstname>@<lastname>.com"
But yeah, I don't care if someone can open up the headers and trace it back to gmail. I don't want (a) people getting confused; and (b) to have to reveal my gmail address every time I send mail with their client.
Another reason this matters: some places/domains require email to be directed through their auth'd SMTP servers. It means they can do things like sign all emails, or guarantee that all emails you send to people at the same workplace will be encrypted whenever they're transmitted over the public internet.
OP here. This is from the talk today being given at Black Hat 2009 by the guys presenting their "hijack any iPhone" exploit discussed here yesterday.
While this document doesn't discuss the iPhone takeover explicitly, it does illustrate how instructions can be sent to iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile phones via an SMS exploit that does not require the carrier to be involved. Interesting stuff.
OP here. In short, it sounds like the iPhone SMS infrastructure is susceptible to buffer overflow attacks. Seems the guys who have found it have given Apple a lot of time to fix it with no response so far.
OP here and I agree with your assessment of the Pavlina blog's change over the past year. His earlier stuff was great but I've had a hard time digesting some of his newer topics.
I posted this because there was a lot of interesting discussion on the Matt Mullenweg post in regards to his sleeping patterns.
My lifestyle would make it hard for me to try polyphasic sleep, but I could see where it would help my productivity if I could pull it off.
Polyphasic sleep is something I consider the ultimate lifehack and something I see society moving towards in a cyberpunk / dystopia future as timezones become more and more irrelevant. BTW: I appreciate you putting the year of the post in the title.
This is a repost of some advice I've offered here before, but doing them really helped me out.
Outside of seeing a doctor to see if there's something seriously screwed up with your back, I'd offer these 3 pieces of advice I had to learn about the hard way.
1.) Massage.
You may not think it's the manliest thing ever, but if you can afford it you should find a good local masseuse and get yourself an hour session. Even if you go once and never go again, you'll get an education in just how kinked up your back and shoulders probably are.
I tweaked my back lifting a lawn mower out of my car a few years ago and didn't think much of it at the time. Over the next few weeks I started to have all kinds of shoulder problems and other various pain to the point where my arms were getting tingly and I couldn't sit and code for more than 30 minutes at a time.
Long story short, I went through a few doctors before I finally just decided to see a masseuse and see if it helped. I was lucky to find someone that knew what they were doing and helped get me straightened out. It took about 5 sessions over 5 weeks, but I've never had problems since.
2.) Trigger points.
Learn what they are and how you can fix them. This was my problem that the masseuse turned me on to. Trigger points are essentially little micro-knots in your muscle fibers that can add up to cause big problems for you. For me, lifting that mower was really just the straw that broke the camel's back. It just exacerbated all the trigger point problems I'd been creating over years of coding and not stretching out my back and shoulders properly.
If you know where the common trigger points creep up and how to get rid of them you can save yourself a lot of pain and downtime (not to mention massage bills).
The book will show you how to identify and treat the trigger points all over your body, and the TheraCane will help you reach the places on your back that you can't reach yourself.
3.) Yoga.
Once you get all your issues straightened out, yoga and/or a good daily stretching regimen can help keep you kink free.
Hopefully some of this advice is helpful. I was really messed up for a while until I figured all this out.
