http://www.ev4.org/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:31:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received the following post a few days ago: Bob Latchford <email removed> | <ip removed> I bought some memory off him - emartbuy UK and it’s fine. As for you calling him a scumbag seriously grow up. Works fine, was here fast and I’ve had no trouble with anything what so ever. Some people ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2008/06/12/in-response-to-bob/  To quote someone who posted here: John | <email removed> | IP: <removed> To put things in perspective: I ordered and got delivered exactly what I wanted within 10 days. This shop had more than 16.000 transactions last month. Still, 98% of the feedback is positive. But with such large quantities, only 2% of ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2008/05/20/in-reply-to-a-comment-from-john/ This is something that annoys me greatly, the acronym 'SQL' is just that, an acronym, it is not pronounceable as a word because it has no vowels. Why is it that some unpronounceable acronyms are always referred to as such (eg DVD) and yet others are seemingly acceptable to arbitrarily modify. There ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/10/18/sql-is-not-pronounced-sequel-where-the-hell-did-those-vowells-come-from/ So FastMemoryMan has another ebay account called "EMartBuy", most probably to make it harder for all the people who search for "fastmemoryman" and find sites like this one. More than a few people have either posted here, or emailed me separately to say they won't be doing business with him having read ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/10/05/fastmemoryman-is-also-known-as-emartbuy/ So judging from the number of hits and comments I get, far too many people have been screwed over by FastMemoryMan...So here is the best of my advice to dealing with him...  Don`t send defective goods direct to his US addressIf your in the UK send it to their UK address, ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/09/30/dealing-with-fastmemoryman/ Aparrently the Skype service went down this week, and stayed down for 2 days leaving users unable to use it... Now Skype uses it's own proprietary protocol, it's not based on any kind of standard like SIP or H.323, so you have to use the Skype client and connect it to ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/08/20/skype-outage-the-dangers-of-proprietary-protocols/ I have receive a couple of emails and one post to this site from someone at Acunetix on this matter. Although he denies that the company or it's employees send spam or sell email addresses to spammers, the question still remains as to how the email address uniquely used on their ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/07/31/further-acunetix-update/ A few days ago i posted about how a unique email address i created for signing up to acunetix.com started to receive a large volume of spam. As i wrote that article, i also mailed the company to complain, also cc:ing their upstream provider. I looked through the original mail from ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/07/29/update-on-acunetix-and-their-selling-emails-to-spammers/ A few months ago i signed up to download a piece of software from www.acunetix.com. Aparrently they provide software for testing the security of web sites. Of course i created a unique address for the sole purpose of this signup. I got the software, had a play with it, and received ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/07/27/acunetixcom-sells-your-mail-address-to-spammers/ To combat the problem of websites that need an email address for signup and all the junk mail they send, I came up with an approach designed to let me minimise that problem. Basically, i create a new email domain and account for each site i sign up for, for instance ... http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/07/27/introduction-to-the-spam-companies-category/