Licensing Minister James Purnell:
“There should be a very clear principle here – that if people are not causing harm to others, government should get out of their personal lives.”
From BBC NEWS | Politics | ‘A third of pubs’ to open longer
How’s this for irony? The music industry’s richest and biggest monster: Sony, used code- (and how’s this for double irony?- the code they used was from LAME, the world’s best MP3 encoder) without permission in XPC, the anti-piracy software that they installed (in the form of a root kit) on music buying public’s computers without their knowledge.
Here’s the very diplomatic response from the nice people at LAME.
Only one user on a domain couldn’t download new mails. Webmail showed the messages were in his inbox, but Outlook wouldn’t connect and download them. The user tried changing password on the server and setting up the account in Outlook on another PC in the same office. Still no dice.
So I SSHd in to the server:
> grep [username] /var/log/maillog
which showed a load of:
Nov 9 12:21:21 host2 in.qpopper[21141]: [username] at 217.36.***.*** (217.36.***.***): -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to process From lines (envelopes) in /var/spool/mail/[username]; change recognition mode or check for corrupted mail drop.
So I searched Google for “change recognition mode or check for corrupted mail drop” and found this page, which stated that in that case: “Aha, a corrupted mail drop file! So, SSH into the server, edit the file at /var/spool/mail/janedoe and I find the first three lines of the file are random garbage”…
So back to the server’s shell and type:
> pico /home/spool/mail/[username]
and there was the problem- a couple of random characters right at the start of the user’s (inbox) file. I deleted those, saved out of Pico and all was fine.
When I spoke with the user afterwards it turned out they’d had some problems with their (BT Supplied) office ADSL line dropping out recently, a couple of times in the middle of Outlook’s Send/Receive, so it’s likely that an unfinished session caused the problem in this case.