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Archive for January, 2009
The need for speed
28 Jan 2009As I’ve written before, the main engine that we are using to provision users on our Exchange system is Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) framework.
I’ve had a few issues with it and various hoops that I have had to jump through. Many of which I have not had a chance to [...]
Hacking Wordpress
27 Jan 2009I’ve been doing quite a bit of side work for friends and family putting together some low traffic ‘business card’ sites. I used to do a lot of custom programming for each of these where I would put up the site and then have a CMS on the back end so they could log [...]
419 Morons!
In: Spam
26 Jan 2009Good lord! I can’t believe that people haven’t learned yet. In the past week, I have seen 2 stories about some dumbass losing hundreds of thousands of dollars to a scammer in a 419 Scam.
First we have John Rempel who sounds like not only did he lose his own savings, [...]
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- Tags: doh!, idiots, Spam, Stupid People
IBM Support
In: SysAdmin
25 Jan 2009I’ve been meaning to write out this for the past week and just haven’t had the time.
Last weekend, I was thrilled to get a call at midnight from someone on my team telling me that one of our primary authoritative DNS servers was having issues. We have 3 so [...]
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- Tags: IBM, Rabbit Hole, Support
Apple Lawsuit – not spam
In: Apple| In the news
24 Jan 2009Last night I recieved the following email:
To obtain the documents you need to learn more about the settlement, make a claim or exclude yourself from the settlement, go to www.iPodnanoSettlement.com or call 1-888-232-3395.
Your Control #: XXXXXXXXXXX
You will need your Serial # to make a claim. By keeping this email and providing your Control # (shown [...]
Microsoft cutting 5,000 jobs on weak results
In: In the news
22 Jan 2009Microsoft said Thursday its sales and earnings for the December quarter fell well below expectations and announced a series of cost-cutting moves, including its first-ever companywide layoffs
The software maker said it will cut up to 5,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce, over the next 18 months. About 1,400 jobs were eliminated immediately. The [...]
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- Tags: Economy, Job Cuts, Microsoft, Skunkworks
Backpack comments…
In: In the news
19 Jan 2009Thank you 37signals!
Even before I signed up for my Backpack account, I had been wanting to allow others to comment on some of my todo items on pages that I was sharing. I use my BackPack account as my personal intranet. And I have a page for each of my major topics and [...]
Secure Backpack
In: Design
14 Jan 2009Those that work with me know that I am a huge fan of the products put out by 37Signals. They have created some great apps that are simple, clean, and rock solid. The concepts aren’t always new, but they have made it so anyone can login in and hit the ground [...]
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- Tags: 37signals, Design, doh!, Missing SSL
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