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Tony Finch - Murray Edwards College
Oxford's University College is over 700 years old. .... was rather shaky - for example, the college's name was at one time spelt with a K. ...
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Tony Finch - How not to design an MTA - part 6 - address verification
Back in the autumn I wrote three posts (1, 2, 3) about MTA queue logistics, which together comprised part 5 of my MTA design series. ...
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Tony Finch - Dear Google staffing team
Dear Google staffing team. Would you all kindly stop spamming me and every other vaguely technical person with job advertisements. ...
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Tony Finch - The date of the count
Sep 15, 2008 ... The overview of the function is to (1a) calculate the year (1b) subtract the day count for previous years (2a) calculate the month (2b) ...
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Tony Finch - UK postcode regular expression
Aug 27, 2008 ... though it should be noted that not even the Royal Mail's own postcode -> address conversion page doesn't pick these up. ...
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Tony Finch - How not to design an MTA - part 5 - spool file logistics
How not to design an MTA - part 5 - spool file logistics. Yesterday I wrote about the format of message data in spool files, but that's only ...
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Tony Finch - How not to design an MTA - part 4 - spool file format
Tony Finch - How not to design an MTA - part 4 - spool file format ... How not to design an MTA - part 4 - spool file format. It's traditional for most MTAs ...
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Tony Finch - Clocks
A monotonic clock cannot be reset, so you can only make gross corrections by changing its epoch. It's common for computer systems to provide ...
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Tony Finch - How not to design an MTA - part 5 - spool file logistics
High performance NNTP servers minimize seeks by having a few large spool files to which they write messages sequentially. ...
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Tony Finch - Venti, Foundation, Bloom filters, and Erlang
Like Venti, it uses content-addressed storage to eliminate ... it can scan backward until "enough" space has been reclaimed, and then stop. ...
