After reading the article at http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html I figured that it had to be a hoax. I mean, that just looks like it’s looking for trouble. However, after about a 20 minute discussion around this with one of the guys working at Google I am now reasonably convinced that this may very well be for real.
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009The correlation between network traffic, tea and lunch times
Saturday, March 28th, 2009So I could for a long time now spot public holidays, weekends, and general stuff on network graphs, but never did I suspect I’d be able to detemine lunch and tea times based on network traffic graphs! Anyway, check this one out:
VoIP Traffic Graph
One can clearly see the 10:00 tea time, then lunch at 13:00 and tea again at 15:00 before things start quieting down for the weekend at around 16:30. Surprisingly there is still a decent amount of activity for a saturday :).
Nashua Mobile – putting new meaning to the word SPAM
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Right, so I’m in the privileged position where I’ve received more bounces in a single day than I generally do in any given 6 month period. Thanks to Nashua Mobile. Why am I posting this here? Because I’ve phoned them twice now, I’ve been promised it will be sorted out, and yet, the bounces keeps coming…
SMTP Mania
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Ok, so SAIX finally pushed me over my limits. I’ve actually had to go make code modifications to exim now to work around the fact that they’re issuing incorrect error codes for their particular errors.
