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This is a guide to updating your Linux server for SSL-enabled, IPv6-happy email transmission using sendmail! Here are the things you need to have already: An IPv6 address for your server. Your internet hosting provider will be able ... (more)
The Manor House A beautifully restored period building dating back to the end of the 19th century in a semi-rural setting on the edge of the village, which hosts a pub, a lovely church and post office. Double, twin or single rooms with ... (more)
Here's a top tip for your mobile phone: Create a contact called ICE and include your emergency contact number (and their relationship to you). If you are badly injured or unconscious, then the emergency services or hospital will be able to ... (more)
For optimisation purposes you have decided to create a new field in a table, and that field needs to contain a computed value of rows from another table. Say that your first table will contain the maximum date from the second table, and that ... (more)
This is my big Facebook prediction for 2012: support for dead people. For now, only living, real people are supposed to be on Facebook, and I don't know what the protocol is for Facebook members when they die. What I imagine is that living ... (more)
Google Plus (or Google+ for short, or G+ for even shorter) is search giant Google's latest attempt to 'go social'. It is doing this so that it can make its search results more lively, and to try and bolster its position as the place you go ... (more)
Ah, well, it's easy to answer, right? Boilerjuice, Butler, Bayford, Watson, or Scottish Fuels. Simple, eh? Or is it? Thanks to John Kelleher[1] who alerted us to the fact that many of the oil companies (that includes both domestic heating ... (more)
Google was founded ten years ago by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford computer students. They had developed the Backrub search engine whilst at Stanford, and on 15 September 1997 the Google name (a mistaken play on words on the word ... (more)