A few weeks ago I 'inherited' a frontend anti-spam solution that was getting crushed under the weight of the Christmas run-up. Emails were taking up to a week to arrive at the back-end system and a lot of spam was getting through too. The solution consisted of two machines each with Dual Core 2.13Ghz Intel's, 2Gb of RAM & SATA disks behind a hardware load balancer. Unfortunately the combination of having to use swap due to the volume of incoming mail coupled with BackScatter attacks [the BackScatter attacks would of course require the original mail and the NDA to be written to disk for ...

Whilst Airsoft has nothing to do with IT it is something that I spend a lot of time [and money] on and a while back I decided to try and give something back to the community. Eventually I came up with a newer version of Frank Bothamley's Airsoft Map, it has spent a couple of months in private beta and I've decided that its time to throw it out there and see what happens. I've yet to think of a decent name for it yet so it is currently called the NAMOS Airosft Map. If anyone can think of a better name or has any suggestions feel free to leave a ...