Author Archives: Vlad

Research in Freeze

Posted: 4:02 am
February 12, 2008
Mobility
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Blackberry global network takes a monumental dump again, leaving millions of heroin addicts blackberry users without their email for several hours. But you know who I feel for? Microsoft! Yeah, an underdog yet again. Blackberry follows up its 14 hour … Continue reading →

AuthAnvil 1.5 is out!

Posted: 9:34 pm
February 11, 2008
Deals, ExchangeDefender, IT Business
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Check out the new stuff in AuthAnvil 1.5: For starters, there are plenty of fixes and updates to the core system. There are over 50 usability bugs that have been fixed ranging for faster communication in the AuthAnvil DCOM Bridge … Continue reading →

How come nobody invited me to the party?

Posted: 1:59 pm
February 10, 2008
IT Culture
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It’s Sunday, so here is your lesson… The man kind… Is a social one, my brothers and sisters…. Love thy neighbor, love thy fellow man. Do onto others as you would wish them do onto you…. We are all equal, … Continue reading →

SBSers and Exchange 2003 tar pitting

Posted: 4:43 pm
February 9, 2008
Exchange, ExchangeDefender
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Few years ago tar-pitting was a big deal among SBSers who tried to protect their systems from spammers, worms and directory harvesting. Microsoft’s Alex Nikolayev, the big daddy of Microsoft’s SMTP stack developed the tar pitting technology for Microsoft’s SMTP … Continue reading →

More Yahoo Drama, who cares? The answer to why people hate Microsoft so much.

Posted: 11:20 am
February 9, 2008
Google, IT Business, IT Culture, Microsoft
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This question came up during the geek lunch here in Orlando, far far away from the neverland of the Silicon Valley. Who cares about Yahoo and Google and Microsoft, I am tired of that drama said one of our local … Continue reading →

Vladcast Episode 11 – Determination

Posted: 9:42 am
February 8, 2008
Vladcast
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Vladcast on determination. For all those of you that asked where I get the energy to do what I do and how I get this done. You might want to turn your speakers down a little though, this is the raw, uncensored Vlad. All you … Continue reading →

Business Without Fear

Posted: 11:55 pm
February 7, 2008
IT Business
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Being a business owner can be an intense, scary, anxious lifestyle. It gets worse when you find out who your competitors are and when you look at what analysts predict your market to look like* (note to self: blog about … Continue reading →

When you’ve got nothing good to say…

Posted: 1:45 pm
February 7, 2008
IT Business
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Point to someone that does… The Killer Objection by Karl Palachuk I’ve said this a million times, there is only one proven sales strategy out there short of outright intimidation and its called “sold you a dream” – if you … Continue reading →

Microsoft blows the Zimbra Pig House

Posted: 12:31 am
February 6, 2008
Exchange, IT Business
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In another desperate Microsoft-bashing event, eWeek (surprise!) is predicting the end of Microsoft in a desperation move to buy Zimbra. Yeah. Forget the advertising. Forget IM share. Forget the webmail dominance in the consumer space.. It’s all about Zimbra.. Yeah. Sure. … Continue reading →

The Joy of Mailbombs

Posted: 8:59 am
February 5, 2008
ExchangeDefender
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One of the coolest things you can do once you’ve built a really, really large network is to look at the network patterns that emerge, hour to hour, day to day. For example, every Monday at about 11 AM EST … Continue reading →