Author Archives: Vlad

Help: MinGW or Cygwin expertise needed for curl recompile

Posted: 10:30 pm
July 25, 2007
Vladville
4 Comments

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

Posted: 8:48 am
July 25, 2007
Friends, IT Business, SMB
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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

Posted: 12:05 am
July 25, 2007
Shockey Monkey
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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

Posted: 1:37 pm
July 24, 2007
ExchangeDefender
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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

Posted: 11:18 pm
July 23, 2007
Programming, Vladville, Web 2.0
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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

Posted: 5:46 pm
July 23, 2007
IT Business
5 Comments

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!

Posted: 9:28 am
July 23, 2007
Microsoft
4 Comments

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

Posted: 9:09 am
July 23, 2007
Exchange, System Admin
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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 →

Vladville WordPress: Teaching WordPress some Facebook Tricks

Posted: 1:37 am
July 22, 2007
Programming, Vladville, Web 2.0
2 Comments

When you do professional development for living the complexity of what you have created can get to you. On such days its best to get outside, away from computers.. but if you live in Florida and outside looks like a … Continue reading →

Moments Of Timeless Pleasure

Posted: 12:28 am
July 20, 2007
Friends, Vladville
5 Comments

(I thought long and hard, which is rare, on whether I should post this on Vladville or not as its quite personal.) I spoke to many successful and quite impressive people in both my business (Vladfire) and elsewhere about the … Continue reading →