Technology & MSG

I’ve got to research some options for remote access. The goal is to provide a Windows-based application — which is rather expensive to license and tedious to manage per-seat — to a group of remote users. The licensing is all taken care of from my perspective, so the remaining requirements are as follows.

Sessions must be [...]

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The oil pressure warning light on my car has been flickering lately. After a day or two it began to bother me. I’ve had lots of tech support moments where people complain about something but then can’t describe the circumstances, so I began to pay attention to when it was happening so that I could [...]

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I find ProcessLibrary to be incredibly useful when diagnosing Windows systems. The site — with a refreshingly clean interface despite it being an advertisement-page-disguised-as-a-tool — will tell you all about processes that you find listed in Task Manager. A quick summary of whether it is good or bad, but with details of what it does, [...]

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So I was bitching this morning about 1&1 refusing email from my mailserver. One of my subscribers complained to 1&1 technical support and got a tech named Jiggy to remove me from their blacklists. Amazing, but with amusing responses from technical support.

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In the past two weeks 1&1 Internet has stopped accepting mail from my mailserver. I get the following error whenever I send an email to them or one of their customers: “421 mails from 71.127.149.126 refused: local dynamic IP address 71.127.149.126″
Now I utilize greylisting so I’m familiar with sending the user a 450; essentially [...]

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I was reading someone’s blog today. I’m told to keep that someone on the DL, so I won’t even say whose. You know it doesn’t matter. It is completely irrelevant whose blog it was.
I saw a trackback link on the blog.
It triggered me. I couldn’t recall receiving any pings under WordPress, despite having the “Allow [...]

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I wrote a new page today detailing some of the places I like to eat. It isn’t a regular post since I intend to update it periodically when I try new places or dishes. Damn you Alton Brown for creating a television show named after a phrase I use regularly!
One irritation with pages (which I [...]

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I noticed this weekend that my Motorola V325 was starting to experience some serious menu lag. When you’d key the Talk button to bring up the “All Calls” list, it would take several seconds before the menu came up. The same thing would happen when attempting to dial someone from the list or the contacts [...]

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I use Mailman to provide mailing list services to friends, family, and non-profit groups in addition to running a few administrative lists. Doing so has recently exposed a problem with Gmail’s mail delivery.

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