The case against backup MXes
The usual case against backup MXes isthat they cause backscatter and they have less or no anti-spamprecautions. But these aren't inherent problems with the idea of backupMXes, just bad implementations; it's not particularly difficult to dobetter, and anything can be implemented badly. I think there's a morefundamental case against them.
Pretty much by definition, a backup MX exists in order to avoid losingincoming email if your primary MX is down for an extended period oftime. Outside machines
Taxi
My recent lectures in Beijing brought back the nineteen-year-old memory of my first (this is my second) visit of Beijing.
我病了
甚麼是內心的空洞?空洞不是無物,不是甚麼都失去,正好相反,空洞是有物,甚至把整個內心都填得滿滿,但卻竟然沒有一
Emotion
Of course, I don't have a whiff of paleoanthropology knowledge to discuss how our ancestors ended up walking on two legs. Still, I must admit, evolution is always a fascinating subject. I've been reading recently about the evolutionary root of our
Review: Canon PowerShot G11 - Digital Camera
tl;dr : Is this the SLR owner's dream pocket camera? Almost! It will do for now, but a tiny bit better lens and image sensor would make it perfect.

The Canon PowerShot G11 comes from a long line of G-series advanced-amateur digital cameras, and is very much like the most recent PowerShot G10 in all the best ways, but differs a little bit by improving on one of the G10's
SSH in a Locked-Down Network
Recently, during one job for a client, I needed to work for a length of time in a location that had quite severe network restrictions—in addition to a proxy server, the location blocked every port besides 80, 25, 443, and 8080. In order to use secure shell (SSH) to login to my work web server, I needed to use one of those ports (I used nmap to find open ports on my end).
Luckily, I gained access
盡顯無聊
no country for old men
有人看了這電影破口大罵說看不懂
有著名博客看完戲憤而發佈一隻 中指
我比較無聊
之前已看了三次
今日睇第四次
真係覺得好好睇
仲係講唔出點解咁好睇
如果一定要我講一個理由
我會話
成套戲都好靜呀
連槍戰時都無音樂
Backup MXes versus redundant MXes
There's a potential confusion when one talks about 'backup MXes', soI'm going to throw some terminology around:
If an additional MX machine can accept inbound email and get itdelivered all the way to the user's inbox even when all other of yourMXes are down, you have a redundant MX .
If an additional MX machine can only accept inbound email but notactually get it delivered to your users (without the help of anotherMX), you have a backup MX .
Backup MXes
Touring Roma (UPDATED)
[ UPDATE : All the pictures from Day 1 have been posted to a gallery.]

Saint Mary Major Basilica.
Fortune smiled upon me today, and I was able to travel to many destinations in Rome, mostly around the Vatican. After walking past Saint Mary Major Basilica (picture above), I walked to the Trevi fountain (a nice place for a pickpocket, I would think), progressed to the Triton fountain, and then hopped on the Italian subway (the Metropolitana, or something like that).