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Posts by Ivor
66 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jun 2007
Government orders data retention by ISPs
Pain ray really killer ray gun, many goats dead, says 'expert'
O2 says 128Kb/s is all its 3G customers need
Phorm admits 'over zealous' editing of Wikipedia article
Tuesday 8th April 2008 11:22 GMT
Hardly surprising
I guess it really just highlights just how technically savvy the Phorm clowns are, that they thought they would be able to get away with this unnoticed.
Will anyone at BT et al now ponder if this glaring lack of technical acumen might perhaps be a sign that the company isn't capable of being trusted with their customers private data after all? Perhaps not.
Paris 'cos she knows so much about private data being distributed.
EU sets cellphone users loose in aircraft
Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook
Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
Monday 18th February 2008 18:03 GMT 
@hotmail
"Anyway, speaking of Exchange not being suitable for ISPs to run an email server - anyone know what Hotmail runs on?"
Well... there was a big fanfare about them migrating off FreeBSD.... but when the Reg scooped that they'd only migrated the front end servers to IIS and the backend was still all FreeBSD it went all quiet. Perhaps they did migrate it all in the end, but I can't find a decent article about it anywhere. There's a tech-ed piece from 2000 describing the migration (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496985.aspx)... but that predates the 2001 Register story about it just being the web front end that was moved (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/12/12/microsoft_hotmail_still_runs/).
So no idea what it's on. MS does however try to eat its own dogfood as much as possible (or just buy out someone elses) so I'd be surprised if they weren't using MS software by now.
Monday 18th February 2008 15:49 GMT
So what do you think they're using?
To all the MS fanboys jumping to defend them... why exactly?
Ok the article doesn't say in detail what they're migrating "from" but the comment that: "We have been working with our platform supplier Microsoft" and that they are now migrating to a "Microsoft Exchange 2003 platform" suggests that they are currently already on some form of Microsoft Platform to deliver their service (Exchange 2000 perhaps?) and are flailing about rebooting the systems, reinstalling software and now upgrading to Exchange 2003 (probably for free) to try and see if thats ready for servicing an ISP scale mail system. Anyone in the know care to dish the dirt?
Mole claims Toshiba to terminate HD DVD
Major HTML update unveiled
Facebook founder loses court battle to keep personal data offline
MS Explorer foundering after UFO strike
Sun introduces first Intel workstation in two decades
Firefox-Google marriage on shaky ground?
Apple 8GB iPhone components 'cost $220'
Friday 6th July 2007 12:29 GMT
Pretty standard
Looks like pretty standard pricing strategy. You start high getting the early adopters and gadget fans. You price excessively high to maintain the supply/demand balance and to recover your R&D costs. Then you steadilly ramp up production, drive down component and assembly costs and start to reduce the price. Hardly new or news. :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
