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I read an interesting analysis on the lifespan of some of the Google service and API that has been cancelled: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/22/google-keep-services-closed
Based on the analysis at the time of the writing, Google service has a mean lifespan of 1,459 days.
An interesting point to ponder, especially if your applications/services depends on one or more Google services.
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What ever happened to 1Malaysia email, a project that said to be valued at 5.3 milions (MAVcap funding) ?
Source:
The 1Malaysia email is touted to be more secure than the average email provider, but a quick search reveals that the domain is still alive at the time of this writing, but is giving invalid & untrusted “self-sign” security certificate: https://www.myemail.my/
What has happened to this grandeur project??
p/s: I’ve been prepping to get my hands on the said “USB Biometric” device a few years ago and to use it on my Linux system. Seems that day have never come :(
Meanwhile enjoy my other article on enabling USB device via serial port: How to enable USB serial port converter RS-232 in GNU Linux
I just remembered that I used to run a simplistic and lightweight php bittorrent tracker out from my webserver, the tracker slowly attracts users until it used up all the allocated web server bandwidth.
This is a pure tracker with no statistic or control panel, just drop it in the web directory, create the required mysql db connection and schema and you’re good to go. You only need to include the tracker “announce” url in the newly created bittorrent file and start seeding!
Download OpenTracker by WhitSoft Development
Download OpenTracker (Mirror) from Mypapit Personal Blog
Comment spams is the bane of any website operator that rely on real human interaction. Stopping comment spams by hand is a tedious process especially when comment spam attacks are sophisticated and are launched from Botnet. There are several techniques that can be employed to fight comment spams including behavioral analysis and also IP analysis.
In maintaining WordPress and Joomla sites, I myself has analyzed several web logfiles and Cloudflare logs to learn that most comment spam originated from certain ip blocks and countries. Therefore, I decided to completely deny access from those affected ip block through firewall (which keep the comment spam low and saves web server resources!)
However, recently I found a new service IP Blacklist Cloud which list the top most blacklisted ip address through collaborative effort. Normally I find blacklisting by ip address is tedious and probably harmful to legitimate visitors, however after conforming the ip addresses that I found inside my spam logs, I decided the list is legitimate and decided to firewall-block some of the worst offenders in the list.
IP Blacklist Cloud free WordPress plugins, which I personally does not use due to my policy of keeping my installation lean with minimal (to no plugins!), however I see that there’s no harm giving a shot!
Read this: The once-hyped Ubuntu One cloud storage service has been discontinued. Canonical through its Ubuntu One website has stated that Ubuntu One file services will be shut down permanently effective 1 June 2014.
Users are being given time until 31st July 2014 to download and backup files from Ubuntu One before they will be permanently deleted. Additionally, the service shutdown will also affect Ubuntu One content and music store.
However, according to Canonical Blog, the shutdown will not affect Ubuntu One Single Sign On service, Ubuntu payment service or the U1DB database service.
My thoughts:
Personally, as I suspected early on – Ubuntu One is unable to compete with other Cloud storage competitors and thus decided to focus their efforts on other projects such as Ubuntu Phone project.
Additionally, I also won’t hold my breath on the Ubuntu Phone project as I find it quite hard for Canonical to find manufacturers that will carry Ubuntu OS on their phone. In my opinion, Ubuntu Phone depends too much on Android backend/platform which may risk legal entanglement in the future, or platform incompatibility should there are significant changes in Android platform in the future.
SMTP is a protocol to send email over the internet and it is documented in RFC821. Sending email using Telnet is straight-forward if you know how to do it.
telnet smtp.example.com 25 MAIL FROM: <example_from @ example.com> RCPT TO: <example_to @ example.com> DATA From: [John Doe] <example_from @ example.com> To: [Jane Doe] <example_to @ example.com> Subject: This is a test message.... This is an example email content to demonstrate email sending using Telnet. . QUIT [/pre] Note that you need to type "." and QUIT after you've finished writing the email content. You should change the SMTP server domain and the email used in the example accordingly.
