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ePartners

If anyone out there has any experience with ePartners, either as a client or employee, I’d be interested in hearing their impressions.

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

ipod2car

I just ordered myself an Xmas present. I’ve looked and looked for a good in-car solution for my iPod all year, and finally decided to get an ipod2car. It works with my existing stereo, and will let the stereo buttons work on the iPod, in addition to charging it, all in one simple [...]

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004. Posted in Music, Work | 1 Comment »>

DansGuardian

It’s increasingly looking like I’m going to have to implement DansGuardian content filtering on the work network, and push all our outgoing internet traffic through Squid. It’s an extra layer I’d really rather not have, but there’s just too much unnecessary traffic going on that I have no other way to manage. Argh.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Another day…

Another annoying problem to solve at work. Beginning of the week it was crazy power fluctuations in our electrical service. Yesterday, hijacked proxy. Today? Voice T1 flakiness. What’s next? Who knows.

Thursday, December 9th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

[expletive deleted] Spammers

Well, a network slowdown at work yesterday kept getting worse today and I started digging into the problem. Both of the instances of postfix running on our subnet were being used to send out spam. Gack! I checked and rechecked the postfix configs and they were clean, I was not running an [...]

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | 1 Comment »>

Man, what a day.

Our power at work has been nuts for the last couple of days. CoServ hasn’t been able to resolve the problem, and is going to have to come in and shut off power to the whole building tomorrow morning to troubleshoot it. Hopefully it will just be loose connections and they’ll have it [...]

Friday, December 3rd, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Help is on the way

I’ve got an assistant at work again! Starting fulltime on Monday. Yea. Someone else to handle the printer jams.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

3 new servers

Ordered three new servers for work today. Most of our infrastructure dates to our original switch to Windows four years ago and was starting to show it’s age. A P3 667 MHz maxed out at 2 gig RAM was driving our 10+ gig SQL Server db is handling the load, but is pretty [...]

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Lightning Protection

Got the guys from work out installing lightning protection on our house today, along with surge arrestors on the electrical service. For those not familiar, the lightning protection system itself is a good old lightning rod setup that protects against a fire and structural damage from a direct lightning strike. Lightning is the [...]

Friday, October 15th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, Work | No Comments »>

The “trust microsoft” setting

I finally have thrown in the towel and given up on trying to maintain security patches on the Windows machines on my work network in any controlled or tested way. There’s just too many to keep up with…so I’ve turned on the dreaded “trust microsoft” setting — ie, download and install all windows updates [...]

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Plone Intranet

After noodling with the setup for the past couple of months in my “spare time”, I’ve finally gone live on a new company Intranet at work, based on Plone. I have high hopes for it becoming more participatory than our previous site, which was Conversant-based.
This has been a difficult process for me as I [...]

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

O, Joy

Looks like I need to trigger another round of windows client updates around the office thanks to the JPEG vulnerability. Just how I wanted to spend my evenings.

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

All SpamAssassin, All the time!

Finally got work mail switched over to the Xserve, and now all three of the email servers I check mail on have SpamAssassin running ( and are Macs! ). It’s a good feeling to be in better control of my email.
It was a bit tricky to get all the glitches out of Active Directory [...]

Thursday, September 16th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Thanks, CDW

I won an online content I entered at CDW…$500 eCard. It was only valid for “security” items, but I got them to apply it to an upgrade to Visual Studio .NET 2003, anyway. Obviously, from my selection, this was tied to our work account, but I’ll take it anyway.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

Thunderbird 0.8

Hot dang! Thunderbird 0.8 finally fixes some long standing MAPI issues, which now make it a viable replacement for Outlook for a number of my users at work.

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