Yearly Archives: 2007

Unlocking Cingular/ATT Phones bought on eBay

Microsoft, Mobility
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One of the most common questions people have when they see my collection of Windows Mobile phones is how we get them, are we made of money? Apparently so, since Katie is now even giving away handsets, box and all. … Continue reading

Big Corporate Apathy & Why Entrepreneurs Think Things Suck

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You will not learn anything new from this post, everything about it is common sense. On the other hand, there are a lot of smart people out there with no common sense at all. Then there are a lot of … Continue reading

Help: MinGW or Cygwin expertise needed for curl recompile

Vladville
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I rarely ask for help here but with all the deadlines converging this is one less project I can dedicate half a day for setup / build / test so I’m hoping someone out there has this in place and can … Continue reading

Some Thoughts on SBSC by Vijay

Friends, IT Business, SMB
on Some Thoughts on SBSC by Vijay

I know how alergic you are to clickthroughs so I’ve reprinted the whole article Vijay wrote because its perhaps the finest piece of social/business reflection on what it is most of us do. If you are moved to respond please … Continue reading

RIP: banana.shockeymonkey.com

Shockey Monkey
on RIP: banana.shockeymonkey.com

I figured banana.shockeymonkey.com deserved a public funeral for all the good stuff it brought to the community. Banana was the server that was used as the primary development/test platform for Shockey Monkey from 03/2006 to 08/2006 and it really made … Continue reading

The Joy of SPAM

ExchangeDefender
on The Joy of SPAM

So I’m sitting around this morning finishing up some bugfixes for ExchangeDefender v3.1 and I took a moment to look at yesterdays stats. So far so good for a Monday. Attachment filtering breakdown. Whooa, Microsoft Excel (.xls) in #2 spot? What … Continue reading

First Step in Learning

Programming, Vladville, Web 2.0
on First Step in Learning

So a little while back I wrote a thanksgiving post explaining how I would never have made it to where I am at today if there weren’t some incredible people along the way kicking my ass to do bigger and … Continue reading

Debating Apple Marketing

IT Business
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Lord knows I hate Apple users. For decades Apple has been known for its delusions about being better while holding on to less than 5% of PC market share so now that they actually have significant share of a certain market they had … Continue reading

The South Shall Rise Again!

Microsoft
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Break out your finest overalls and roll out your moonshine barrel: The Greater South is BACK! Ok, not really, but Microsoft has reorganized its territories and the new Greater Southeast District now covers Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, NC and SC. … Continue reading

PowerShell for Domain Password Operations

Exchange, System Admin
on PowerShell for Domain Password Operations

Got an email overnight as the resident PowerShell guru (I guess night shift has no Google access?) about a server of ours that keeps on expiring passwords even though neither the domain nor the domain controller nor any aspect of … Continue reading