Should anyone ask, bunker filters lots of spam

Spammers are turning to image spam to avoid filters.  The introduction of grey-listing has dramatically reduced imaginator.com spam but in the end spam protection is a never ending arms race – until someone comes up with a new way to do email.  And that ain’t happening any time soon.I’ve been graphing bunker’s mail statistics. The mail server is rejecting up to 40 messages a minute, and that’s before they even hit the spam filter, the virus filter, a content filter and finally get accepted for delivery.  So the odd one that gets through has had to pass lots of tests. Consider it special…

Should anyone ask, it’s time for a new look at networking

A New Way to look at Networking is the name of an interesting talk given by Van Jacoson Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He’s been studying networking since 1969. He still hopes that someday something will start to make sense.

He gives an interesting critique of TCP/IP today and suggests how it is broken and can be fixed.

Link here

Should anyone ask, it’s time for a new look at networking

A New Way to look at Networking is the name of an interesting talk given by Van Jacoson Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He’s been studying networking since 1969. He still hopes that someday something will start to make sense.

He gives an interesting critique of TCP/IP today and suggests how it is broken and can be fixed.

Link here

Should anyone ask, Heathrow needs a sweeping.

We’re in Heathrow awaiting the flight to Johannesburg.  Tired.  Thank goodness Julie had access to an executive lounge.  Booked a place in the nick of time to stay at which seems quite nice.

Very tired from staying up late packing and planning.

Looking forward to Cape Town tomorrow.
How can Heathrow end up looking so scabby?  The  scuffed carpets, vile staff uniforms and general warren like nature of all the interconnecting passages is a terrible gateway to the UK.

Must run.