Monthly Archives: September 2007

More Zune, Less Cost

Microsoft
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You can now buy a Zune for $130 at woot.com. I am perhaps the only person that has not won a Zune at a Microsoft giveaway, and lord knows I have ridiculed it to no end… I played with it … Continue reading

)!).*:[!-(:.).-+.*)

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Got one of these gems forwarded to me by one of our customers earlier tonight, asking how we went about filtering something like that: Subject: )!).*:[!-(:.).-+.*) Sy!m]b*oool F]D:E(GLast 0.04T ar ge+t 0.12! Now, you can pretty much guess that with … Continue reading

Vlad’s School of Customer Service: Productivity or Courtesy?

IT Business
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Here is another in the series of customer service tips I’d like to share with you: Do your customers expect productivity or courtesy from you? I’d imagine its a little bit of both but it depends on your profession. If your … Continue reading

Shirts and Coffee

Microsoft, SMB
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How to market your blog on the cheap – Eric announced a “free gift” for people that pinged him off the Microsoft mssmallbiz.com blog. People start talking about what may be coming, what it could be.. Well, here it is: … Continue reading

Heading to ConnectWise Conference? Take this with you..

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Heading to the ConnectWise Conference this week? If so, take this one along with you: Whitepaper: ConnectWise sync with ExchangeDefender How-To Thats right, in 5–10 minutes you can have your ConnectWise deployment syncing up with ExchangeDefender and becoming a regular … Continue reading

I needs a Followup-Cleaning Monkey

IT Business
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I need to hire a followup / cleaning monkey. As we continue to grow the need for a person that does no technical work is rising (ie, is incapable of helping, even if they wanted to); Here is what happens – we … Continue reading

Office 2003 SP3 – My how the times have changed

Microsoft
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Today is a very good day for Microsoft – they released Service Pack 3 of the flagship product and all the Microsoft world is ajoy. This certainly cements the stability of Office 2003, and for many that have seen my … Continue reading

Waiting is the hardest part…

System Admin
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Ok, so this is going to sound a little sick but I’ve been going down to the mail office every day for the past few days just waiting for Scorpion Software AuthAnvil tokens to show up. Dana and I talked … Continue reading

Big UC News: Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra

Deals, Exchange
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Yahoo! acquired Zimbra earlier tonight for cool $350 mil in cash. Zimbra, for the uninformed crowd basically means: Exchange features on Linux. Though its a lot more than that (collaboration, AJAX interfaces) the bottom line is that this is (or was) the … Continue reading

How Hard Does Vista Suck?

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I have been involved with Vista from the earliest Connect builds to the latest SP1 tests and I must admit that I love it. I appear to be alone at that. Over the weekend, one of my Dallas neighbors (we literally … Continue reading