Yearly Archives: 2007

Visiting Dallas

Posted: 10:58 am
January 22, 2007
Events, Exchange, Shockey Monkey, Vladville
1 Comment

I’m off to Dallas. On Thursday, January 25th, I’ll be presenting a few topics on business/technology to the Dallas Fort Worth SBS User Group. I’ll be talking about: Corporate leadership (pre-event, Q&A) Exchange 2007 ExchangeDefender, Shockey Monkey, virtual infrastructure Just … Continue reading →

Dealing with Email Latency

Posted: 11:24 pm
January 21, 2007
Exchange, ExchangeDefender
on Dealing with Email Latency

Since the latest SPAM outbreaks started last October we have been dealing with adhoc problems with huge delays in mail delivery. MSNBC calls it “Spam is back and worse than ever” so it’s natural to assume that its your SPAM … Continue reading →

The War of SBS Worlds

Posted: 9:58 pm
January 18, 2007
SMB
on The War of SBS Worlds

As many potshots as I take at Susan Bradley for being the pope of the SBS community, most of you will never even see 1% of what she does for literally every SBS, Centro and Windows Home Server user. Considering … Continue reading →

This one time…

Posted: 2:15 am
January 14, 2007
Friends
2 Comments

At the OSU band camp… We got pwned by Florida! Repeat after me… It’s great…to be…a Floooooorida… Gator.

We’ve got your Geek Squad right here

Posted: 9:37 pm
January 13, 2007
Gaypile
on We’ve got your Geek Squad right here

Not to be outdone by Geek Squad, Firedog, Staples, Mac stores, Microsoft bCentral (UK) and every two indians with enough juice on a credit card to register a domain name….. CompUSA is entering Managed Services. This is somewhat significant becuase CompUSA always … Continue reading →

New Category: Gaypile

Posted: 9:32 pm
January 13, 2007
Gaypile
2 Comments

I was told by many of you that I needed to add this category. The concept of the gay-pile is the genius of South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. South Park, for those of you not from US, … Continue reading →

They Took ‘R Action Pack Rights

Posted: 12:15 am
January 13, 2007
IT Culture
4 Comments

Quick everyone, back to the ***pile!!! I’ll make it quick, short and painless: You have no downgrade rights with MAPS (Action Pack) and MPAN (Accountant Network): Once you renew your subscription you must upgrade all the software licensed under MAPS to … Continue reading →

Since when am I the authority on this?

Posted: 11:04 am
January 12, 2007
IT Culture
1 Comment

The Vladville folder was full this morning with requests for comment regarding the restrictions on content for Blu-ray. NSFW (not safe for work), you’ve been warned. Now this is going to surprise some but I’m on Sony’s side on this … Continue reading →

PSS Assimilation

Posted: 9:48 am
January 11, 2007
Friends
2 Comments

Please join me in congratulating Peter Gallagher (b. Purushottam “Peter” Gangadikeyaharvahar) on his recent promotion. Peter is one of the good SBS Show friends and currently works as a PSS Escalation Engineer at Las Colinas, Texas. On Monday, Peter will … Continue reading →

Day in a life of a spam killer: pre-greeting traffic

Posted: 9:08 am
January 11, 2007
ExchangeDefender, OwnWebNow
on Day in a life of a spam killer: pre-greeting traffic

Yesterday we implemented some new magic against tar-pitting smashers and man does it make a difference: Since noon EST we have rejected an average of 46,128 messages per-node. We then ran a report – 100% of the IP addresses that had their email rejected had mail … Continue reading →