I came across this story today on The Register, by way of Slashdot. (Yes I know I’ve been reposting a lot of /. news lately. It’s just been good news).
I absolutely believe the truth of this tale. Ingram Micro is terrible for excessive packaging, but HP really takes the cake on this one. The box […]
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HP = Most wasteful packaging evar.
Published July 21st, 2008 in Humourous and IT Industry. 0 CommentsFirefox 3 vs secure certificates and authorities
Published July 20th, 2008 in IT Industry and News. 2 CommentsI installed Firefox 3 the other week, and have to say I’m quite impressed. The memory leak issues are not fully resolved, but big steps have been made. (With certain programs like Flash and Adobe Acrobat Reader it’s still churning the memory for me. I compared with Opera 9.5, and that’s still more conservative.) Like […]
US ISPs standing against child porn. Or not.
Published July 20th, 2008 in IT Industry and News. 0 CommentsSlashdot is reporting the news of an agreement signed between major American ISPs to block newgroups containing child pornography.
It would be better if the agreement wasn’t bull. Maybe they’ll help a little, but the reality is they could do things a lot smarter if they actually cared about child pornography. It seems they care more […]
iPhone working with Microsoft Exchange
Published July 16th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsI’m happy to say that we at TACF have our one iPhone updated with version 2.0, and have got it syncing with Exchange 2003.
Apple provide a document that offers a trivial level of assistance in setting things up. If you’re already using ActiveSync for other devices, then you’ll be working already. If you’re not using […]
More reasons to stay away from GoDaddy
Published June 30th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsThe first few domains I set up I had hosted with GoDaddy, as they seemed like a decent company. I moved my domains away from GoDaddy a couple of years ago, as I started to feel uneasy about them, but couldn’t put my finger on anything in particular (other than fishy pricing). Over the last […]
How to email FROM specific IPs, using Linux and Postfix
Published May 19th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsI was asked recently to find an email solution for a new marketing firm. The solution specifically, was for the problem of outbound IP binding. That is what IP address email is sent from. If you’re providing email outsourcing for multiple clients, it’s important to keep each client on it’s own IP(s) so one being […]
Every day that I’ve logged into Facebook this week I’m getting this:
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Fight for your right to party, and watch CBC online
Published March 30th, 2008 in IT Industry and News. 0 CommentsMonopolistic bastards are applying more traffic shaping to Canadian internet traffic.
Shame.
Exchange server down all weekend… fixed
Published March 18th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsI did some maintenance on our email server on Saturday (backup, chkdsk, defrag) just simple stuff, but somewhere inside the chkdsk things got mangled. I knew there were some file level problems on the machine, and there’d been a general stability problem for a while, so all of this was about due to happen. But […]
Half way through our holiday in NZ my laptop started puking out blue screens of death. It’s never done this before… but it started in earnest until the machine became pretty much unusable (over a period of 48 hours). So I spent some time in thought, regarding the fate of my 6 month old laptop […]
