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Wrong SMTP server used by Outlook

adlag — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:44:36 +0000

A number of people uses more than one SMTP server. An SMTP server is the computer program, managed by your internet provider (employer, school, ISP, ...), that takes care of sending your email. Such an SMTP server can be a bare programs marginally implementing the standard RFC protocols, or it can be part of a larger server program, like the Microsoft Exchange Server.

Bug, design flaw or feature request

adlag — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:48:06 +0000

The distinction between a bug and a design flaw is vague. If a program causes an access violation this is certainly a fully qualified bug. What, however, if a program doesnot do what the programmer had intended, but without causing a crash? I think this is also a bug. Suppose a program does exactly what the programmer had in mind, but the behavior is not what a user expects. A developer could program that a simple ascii editor starts the first line with "We hope you like our editor". This is not a bug, but a design flaw.

Embedding video flv files

adlag — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:25:24 +0000

The best way is to use flv-embed wordpress plugin