Author Archives: Vlad

It’s time to abort your whole freaking species! RIP Palm Foleo

Posted: 10:51 pm
September 4, 2007
Mobility
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If you know where the quote is from and it’s relevance to the subject at hand, you my friend are very cool. There is a strong stench of silicone vapor in the air over at Palm HQ as they kill … Continue reading →

Project Updates: TW/XD/SM

Posted: 3:57 pm
September 4, 2007
OwnWebNow, Shockey Monkey, Thieving Weasel
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It has been an exciting two years, getting the opportunity to travel, meet so many partners, be exposed to so many different business models and objectives. I must say, I have learned a lot. Since WWPC, my last major conference for quite … Continue reading →

Dumbing Down OpenXML Quandry

Posted: 9:55 am
September 4, 2007
Microsoft
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Unless you’ve been under a rock you are aware of Microsoft’s attempts to certify their Open XML implementation as an ISO standard. On the face of it, its hard to understand why this issue could raise so many conversations and … Continue reading →

Microsoft Loses the #1 Spot

Posted: 1:19 pm
September 3, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft, SMB
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If you’ve been following the vibes around the SMB partner community you already know: Microsoft has lost their spot as the most partner-antagonistic company in the world. Ironically enough, they lost it to Dell. Over the past ten years, Microsoft … Continue reading →

Changing Face of SPAM Filtering

Posted: 8:38 pm
September 2, 2007
ExchangeDefender
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August was a hard month for ExchangeDefender with a lot of long planned changes being moved up the timeline to address what I believe will be the end of unmanaged mail servers. Allow me to explain. Assuming you can deal with … Continue reading →

SPAM Hoover: BBB Trojan

Posted: 5:06 am
September 2, 2007
ExchangeDefender
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So here is what we’re fighting with today, Better Business Bureau fraud/trojan SPAM: Complaint Case Number: C465B4Complaint Made by Consumer Mrs. Marcia E. WorthingtonComplaint Registered Against: Elizabeth MeHaffey of TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc.Date: 05/14/2007/ Instructions on how to resolve this … Continue reading →

And so it begins…

Posted: 1:05 am
September 2, 2007
Vladville
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… another year of bringing humility to the south and other random inbred corn humpers nationwide: If you aren’t a Gator you’re Gator Bait. Here, it’s not too late to hop on the wagon, your complimentary background is just a … Continue reading →

Welcome to Inglewood

Posted: 10:44 am
September 1, 2007
IT Business, Vladville
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Welcome to Inglewood, the home of Champions, Erick Simpson and Randy’s Doughnuts. Airports are very inspirational places, everywhere you turn there is a hot new self-help book. In a way it fits because you do not want to stick a bunch … Continue reading →

Huge SPAM / DDoS-like Explosion

Posted: 11:05 am
August 31, 2007
ExchangeDefender
1 Comment

If you’re not so fortunate to have ExchangeDefender protecting your mail server you may have noticed your mail server is slowly choking in the junk that seems not only to be dumping massive amounts of data off but also significantly … Continue reading →

Feelin’ for Microsoft

Posted: 11:57 pm
August 29, 2007
IT Business
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(two part series of selling into SMB space: Postmaster Woes is next) One of my biggest pet peeves about SMB IT Professionals, and that term ought to be used very loosely for some, is the constant complaints about inability to stay … Continue reading →