Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Richard E. Brown
--- Shane Ronan wrote: On that same note, can someone point me in the direction of an SMS gateway service? I would like to be able to send SMS messages from my monitoring systems, but I am unsure about how to go about it. --- end of quote --- There are several ways to do this: - Open source soft

RE: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-25 Thread Richard E. Brown
> Free speech doesn't include the freedom to shout fire in a crowded theatre. It most certainly does! There is absolutely nothing to prevent one from shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theatre. Actually, it doesn't. When I was on-staff at the computer center at Dartmouth, our provost also happe

Regular Expression for IPv6 addresses

2010-02-04 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, My company, Dartware, have derived a regex for testing whether an IPv6 address is correct. I've posted it in my blog: http://intermapper.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-regular-expression-for-ipv6 This has links to the regular expression, a (Perl) program that tests various correc

Re: Regular Expression for IPv6 addresses

2010-02-06 Thread Richard E. Brown
Folks, Thanks for all the comments on the IPv6 regex... - Jeroen Massar wrote: The only proper way of "testing" if an address is a valid IPv6 address is to feed it to getaddrinfo() and then use it through that API. Good point. One of the reasons to do this was for environments where