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Must... have.... more ... pictures?
Please? :P

We recently had microsoft's windows phone camp at our university, wasn't too bad, no new information though

Reply 181

username612415

Original post by Mad Vlad

See... that'd make me cry seeing the IE logo plastered on my home screen. :facepalm:

I already have a website pinned so I don't have to look at it XD not a bad browser so far though.

Original post by Nick Longjohnson

Please tell us what it's like. I'm really liking the look of WP7, and the Nokia is a sexy beast.

Will do, I'll post my thoughts on it tonight after I've had a day with it.

Good stuff :smile:

In fairness, IE 9 has come a long way and it's a far better browser (both from a webdev side and user side) than any of it's predecessors.

*ducks*

Reply 184

username234673

Original post by Dez

In fairness, IE 9 has come a long way and it's a far better browser (both from a webdev side and user side) than any of it's predecessors.

*ducks*

Of the 5 minutes or so I've played with it, I'd probably agree. But as I said, it was 5 minutes.

Reply 185

Kenny_uk

Original post by Dez

In fairness, IE 9 has come a long way and it's a far better browser (both from a webdev side and user side) than any of it's predecessors.

*ducks*

I'm inclined to agree as well, I just hope IE 10 follows that.

Reply 186

Dez

Just unsubscribing from some Symantec mailing list thing, and was told that it would take 10 business days to complete. :hmmm:

Guess I'd best add them to my spam filter for the next two weeks. But ten days? Anyone want to venture a guess as to why on earth it takes 10 working days to delete a single email address from a database file somewhere? :lolwut:

Reply 187

secretmessages

Original post by Dez

Just unsubscribing from some Symantec mailing list thing, and was told that it would take 10 business days to complete. :hmmm:

Mmm I hate it when that happens. I assume it might be a logistical thing - perhaps they prepare some of their emails and its recipient list a few days before actually sending the email, and so there might already be an email waiting to be sent to you?

Reply 188

username234673

Original post by Dez

Just unsubscribing from some Symantec mailing list thing, and was told that it would take 10 business days to complete. :hmmm:

At a guess, so they can manage the load on their servers when maintaining their mailshot db. Build up a load of removal requests and blast them during quieter hours instead of having a steady stream of DELETE requests hitting their servers.

If it's not that, then I have no idea.

Reply 189

Dez

Original post by mikeyd85

Mail servers spend most of their lives doing essentially sod all, until a newsletter send comes along and takes up the entire universe for a few hours, then it's back to quietness again. Even if it's processing a steady stream of automated response emails, it really shouldn't take two whole weeks to find a slot to run unsubscribe requests. I'm pretty sure they're just doing it so they can advertise to me a bit more, whilst still technically complying with my request and (I assume) the law. :colonhash:

Reply 190

username234673

Original post by Dez

Would they not have to remove your email details from their db server though? I can't imagine they'd store DB.Cust.Details on their mail server box.

Reply 191

Dez

Original post by mikeyd85

Would they not have to remove your email details from their db server though? I can't imagine they'd store DB.Cust.Details on their mail server box.

Possibly. Knowing Symantec, they probably run their mailing server on Windows and it has to restart in order to update mailing list details. :p:

Reply 192

username234673

Original post by Dez

Possibly. Knowing Symantec, they probably run their mailing server on Windows and it has to restart in order to update mailing list details. :p:

I try to rep you far too much for this site to allow it.

Reply 193

Dez

Original post by mikeyd85

I try to rep you far too much for this site to allow it.

If I wanted I could grant myself rep now, but that would be cheating. More to the point, Fleur would kill me. :wink:

Reply 194

secretmessages

Original post by Dez

If I wanted I could grant myself rep now, but that would be cheating. More to the point, Fleur would kill me. :wink:

I know you obviously have adminny powers, but do you have moddy powers too? i.e. Can you move stuff?

Reply 195

Dez

Original post by secretmessages

I know you obviously have adminny powers, but do you have moddy powers too? i.e. Can you move stuff?

I have full access to AdminCP and ModCP, so yes, I can do all the moddy stuff. I haven't used those powers though, since it's not my job to moderate the boards and I really don't want to be stepping on the toes of the real moderators. :smile:

That said, if a mod needs something adminy/techy doing, I don't mind helping out. If I see something that needs moderating though I'll still file a report, since it's better for someone who's familiar with the rules and moderation techniques to deal with most things I think.

Reply 196

secretmessages

Original post by Dez

I thought that would've been the case, was just wondering because I've noticed you continuing to report things :yep:

Reply 197

ch0llima

Any hacker who gains root on your servers has powers far higher than that of the vBulletin Admin user group :colonhash:

The shoddily built and overly convoluted (I've used it - was a supermod on another forum ages back) vBulletin AdminCP is nothing when they can just lift your database, your /etc/shadow file, your hidden stash of 'classy erotica', you name it :smile:

Reply 198

username234673

Original post by ch0llima

Any hacker who gains root on your servers has powers far higher than that of the vBulletin Admin user group :colonhash:

Kinda goes without saying that though.

Reply 199

Dez

Original post by ch0llima

Any hacker who gains root on your servers has powers far higher than that of the vBulletin Admin user group :colonhash:

Big sites like TSR have more than one computer serving them. Any sysadmin that leaves the database server accessible to the outside world is a complete and utter muppet. :p: