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...yet! 
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I've finally had a reply ... that mentions 4 or 5 options for sending automated emails from the company.
One of the offerings is Amazon SES (which is not yet available to us  )
Another is ... you've guessed it "SMTP direct"...
... but still no details 
They're now offering me "technical assistance". I suspect that will be end up being technical assistance with my hibernation pod[^] while I wait for a resolution in my lifetime. We're doomed
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If you only need the server and port and know the domain you can do it yourself:
nslookup
> set type=mx
> [domain]
> quit or on a Linux shell
dig [domain] mx Enter the bare domain (e.g. codeproject.com). If multiple answers are present choose from the servers with the smallest preference value.
Once having the server name try connecting (e.g. with telnet) using the common ports (25, 465, 587).
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Thanks! I'll give that a try as soon as I can. Much appreciated
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Did you try turning it off and on again?
(darn, it's a repost, sorry, I guess it's Friday)
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I once opened a support ticket titled: "How do I know the backups are good?" sub-text was IT claimed to be backing up our files, but I believe in a trust but verify policy.
The request went nuclear - "What do you mean the backups aren't good?" - seriously, I had IT people with flushed faces harassing me. After they calmed down, they verified... and found out some were bad.
Fast forward 5 years - backups were incomplete for 4 months before anyone noticed. sigh...
speaking of which! I need to run my backups
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Sounds familiar:
Me : I notice that the backups for our new system only consists of daily incremental backups for the past two weeks. Can you please implement full weekly backups on a 4 week cycle, and full monthly backups on a 12 month cycle. I'd also like a full annual backup which is to be kept for 7 years. (This was a major finance system!!!)
Them : Wow, that's a lot of backups. You do realise that we're backing up to the cloud, and we have to pay for all that space? I don't think we can justify the expense. We have budgets to think of.
Me : We also have a legal obligation to our clients to keep their information safe. Two weeks of incremental backups isn't going to do it. Just picture what happens if there's a problem in mid December, then half the company goes on holiday, and the problem isn't noticed until mid January? We would not be able to recover.
Them : Oh, that'll never happen. You're just paranoid. Two weeks is more than we kept in the last place I worked!
Me : "Dear Board of Directors, I know you would like to avoid lawsuits if at all possible..."
Cue arrival of external consulting firm, who actually knew their stuff for once, and implemented the most robust disaster recovery system I have ever set eyes on. It's amazing how quickly people react when you tell them about a threat to their annual bonuses.
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I support a customer located out in LA. I was trying to vpn into their network, nothing was working. Tried calling the office, no answer (lines dead), so I called my contact on his cell. Seems the mid-size firm they used for telecommunications (phones, internet, etc) was having a technical issue. In one day:
- hi, my network is down. them: "yes, we're aware of the situation, should be fixed shortly."
- hi, now my phones don't work either. them: "yes, we've had a hardware failure, we're working it."
- hello? calling them now gets a this number has been disconnected message.
Apparently, this mid-size firm had invested in a fairly large network switch that had worked fine for several years. They had dozens of companies contracted to provide network, voip, etc. Over the weekend, the switch crashed hard, and they learned no one had backed up anything. At all...
The owners of the company immediately declared bankruptcy, cashed out, closed the doors and left.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I was just explaining in 40 emails (back and forth) to an IT guy, how normal server certificate validation procedure should work. He was trying to explain to me, their basically homemade solution on the server and was trying to force me, to bend my client side to be basically crippled. This is quite a large (state partially involved) company, I might add. After 40 emails he requested we phoned. After 5 minutes of intense explanations, he conceded that they'll fix their server to use security standards, will remove the ridiculous solution and call to all the business partners to fix the security on their side. Finally a WIN! 
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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Hi,
I use Bluetooth when my family is not at home to call or chat over the Phone, but I don't always count steps when I am doing it, is there any App on my smart Phone to count steps when I am walking in home with Bluetooth head-phones on and my smart Phone is placed on a table or something?
Anybody please help me? I don't want to carry my Phone always when I am walking in my Home. It would be a great help if somebody can suggest me. Thanks in advance friends.
Thanks,
Abdul Aleem
"There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."
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Even though this isn't the place for questions, nor is your question very relevant to coding, the answer is that your bluetooth headset doesn't have an accelerometer in it, and is incapable of counting your steps because of that. So sorry, you would need to keep your phone on you.
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I agree with you partially but if the signals of Phone can go and come from Headset using Bluetooth as we can forward to next song, we can receive call or cancel call while listening Music why can't it just calculate steps if there is any movement in a person or headset.
Just think about it, it would be a great idea if someone can do it. I am not looking for exact calculation to have GPS in it, just number of steps and depending upon that calculation of distance, as many other cheap Pedometer Phone apps do within the Phone when Phone was moving.
Just saying as I am a Darwins believer so let me explain in his way , the whole science is born for Human to keep his hands free, from the beginning of the History when Human made his first water bottle using Ostrich Egg. To keep his hands free while carrying Water so that he can act if any other animals attack him or focus on other things while carrying sufficient water for him, for that time that was biggest innovation.
Thanks,
Abdul Aleem
"There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."
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indian143 wrote: ...why can't it just calculate steps if there is any movement in a person or headset.
Because neither the phone nor the headset have enough information to calculate steps if the headset doesn't have an accelerometer in it. The only information the phone might have is bluetooth signal strength. Assuming a perfectly non-directional antenna, you could walk around the phone in perfect circles for a day and the signal strength wouldn't change except for battery considerations. The phone wouldn't see you 'move.'
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Noom walk pedometer.
Simple, free and works.
Get it from the google play store.
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Unless your headset has a pedometer then there isn't an app out there which will magically add the functionality. Be weary of any app which claims the contrary. In theory, if your headset has GPS built in, an app could measure change but I wouldn't trust it for step counts given GPS accuracy.
So it is either carry your phone or start wearing a fitbit/similar then syncing it with your phone.
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I agree with you partially but if the signals of Phone can go and come from Headset using Bluetooth as we can forward to next song, we can receive call or cancel call while listening Music why can't it just calculate steps if there is any movement in a person or headset.
Just think about it, it would be a great idea if someone can do it. I am not looking for exact calculation to have GPS in it, just number of steps and depending upon that calculation of distance, as many other cheap Pedometer Phone apps do within the Phone when Phone was moving.
Just saying as I am a Darwins believer so let me explain in his way , the whole science is born for Human to keep his hands free, from the beginning of the History when Human made his first water bottle using Ostrich Egg. To keep his hands free while carrying Water so that he can act if any other animals attack him or focus on other things while carrying sufficient water for him, for that time that was biggest innovation.
Thanks,
Abdul Aleem
"There is already enough hatred in the world lets spread love, compassion and affection."
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indian143 wrote: Pedometer Phone apps do within the Phone when Phone was moving
Most pedometer apps, even cheap ones, utilize the accelerometer built into phones to calculate motion. Most headsets don't have an accelerometer to get information from, some of the newer fitness oriented ones aside.
indian143 wrote: if the signals of Phone can go and come from Headset using Bluetooth as we can forward to next song, we can receive call or cancel call while listening Music why can't it just calculate steps if there is any movement in a person or headset
In theory you could use the Bluetooth signal strength to calculate distance of a device from the phone but that would be very dependent on the environment. It would be a very rough guess at best.
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indian143 wrote: I agree with you partially but if the signals of Phone can go and come from Headset using Bluetooth
You do get what Bluetooth is right? Its a simple (well relatively), radio transmission and receive standard.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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A colleague today asked me to show him the database structure for an application I wrote a couple of years ago, for maintenance purposes. I directed him to the database diagram I had helpfully created in SQL Server.
Sadly, upon opening it, it became apparent that someone had for some unknown reason decided to remove all the relationships between all the tables, for no obvious reason.
I despair sometimes.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Parallel relationships can produce unspecified behaviour.
Especially if the other one finds out.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Guess that guy couldn't relate 
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And therein lies the value of forced auditing, saved outside the environment.
Perhaps a block-chain on changes is needed... unless of course, the change is done from the 'sa' account and multiple people have access to the password.
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I've experienced something like that once.
For no reason, quite a few FK's had disappeared...
I'm pretty certain no one on the team did it because we all knew the value of FK's.
To this day I've seen it once and still can't explain it.
My guess is that some external tool (comparer? EF? modeller?) removed them for some reason.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm pretty certain no one on the team did it because we all knew the value of FK's.
Since "everyone knows it", no one would admit not knowing.
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